Recipes Mania News December 2005

Welcome to the last issue of Recipes Mania News for 2005 and special Hi to all who are receiving it for the first time. I was checking some statistics a few days ago and discovered that our drop out rate of people who subscribe to our ezine is below 0.01%. So thank you all for your loyalty.

This month is the biggest party time in the world and accepting that we all have the right to celebrate and party from time to time we also have a responsibility to protect those around us.If you do have a drink please do not drive. Take a cab or have a designated non-drinking driver with you. There can be nothing worse for a family unit to lose somebody during the festive season. Try to imagine how you would feel if this happened to your family before you get behind the wheel of a car after drinking.

Recipe of the Month

This dessert is ideal as a replacement for traditional Christmas pudding and is much lighter.

Ingredients:

2 quarts (2 litres) vanilla ice-cream.

1/3 cup chopped glace pineapple.

1/3 cup chopped glace apricots

1/3 cup red glace cherries, halved.

1/4 chopped glace ginger.

1 teaspoon mixed spice.

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.

24 ounce (700 ground) rich fruit cake.

Method:

Oil a 7-cup (1.75 litre) pudding steamer bowl and line with plastic wrap.

Combine ice-cream, fruit, ginger and spices in alarge bowl. Spoon mixture into the prepared pudding bowl. Cover; freeze for about 1 hour or until firm.

Note: Your mixture should leave a gap of about 1/2 inch (12mm) at the top of the bowl.

Cut cake in half and trim halves to fit on top of the ice-cream mixture. Press on gently and this cake will form the base of your Christmas Bombe when it is turned out onto serving dish.

Cover and freeze overnight.

Serve with Brandy sauce.

Find Brandy sauce recipe here.

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Enough technical stuff. This is a Christmas edition. It should be about fun food and recipes.

Light-Hearted Christmas Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 tsp.. baking soda

1 cup sugar

1 tsp.. salt

1 cup of brown sugar

2 tbl sp Lemon juice

4 large eggs

1 cup Nuts

1 bottle tequila

2 cups dried fruit

Method:

Sample the tequilla to check quality.

Take a large bowl, check the tequilla again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Repeat.

Turn on the electric mixer.

Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point its best to make sure the tequila is still OK.

Try another cup...just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit up off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver thingy.

Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something.

Check the tequilla.

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink.

Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Try another tup of cequila

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window.

Tinish the fequila and wipe the counter with the cat.

CHERRY MISTMAS!

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Have a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and safe 2006.