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Toad in the Hole

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:40:46 +0000

Ingredients
8 links pork sausage
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Pour oil into a baking dish. Arrange sausages over the baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, whisk together the flour, eggs, and half of the milk in a medium bowl. When it is smooth, gradually mix in the rest of the milk. Sprinkle salt and pepper for seasoning. Remove the baked sausages from the oven. Pour batter over the sausages until 3/4 covered. Place it back into the oven, bake for 35 minutes.

English Muffins

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:29:11 +0000

Ingredients
1 cup milk
6 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 cup warm water
1/4 cup melted shortening
1 package active dry yeast
1 teaspoon salt
Directions
Slowly warm the milk in a small saucepan for 10 minutes. Dilute sugar into the milk. Set aside until lukewarm. Prepare yeast by diluting in warm water. Set aside for 10 minutes. In a large bowl, combine the milk, yeast mixture, shortening and 3 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Add salt and rest of flour, or enough to make soft dough. Knead. Place in greased bowl, cover, and let rise. Punch down. Roll out to about 1/2 inch thick. Cut rounds with cookie cutter. Sprinkle waxed paper with cornmeal and set the rounds on this to rise. Sprinkle the muffin tops with remaining cornmeal. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 30 minutes. Heat the griddle. Grease before cooking muffins on griddle. Flip to the other side after 10 minutes. Allow to cool and place in plastic bags for storage. Cut split and toast muffins. Spread butter and jam.

Cornish Splits

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:38:24 +0000

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups milk
3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Directions
Dissolve the yeast in the milk and sugar in a small bowl. Sift the flour and salt together and add the cooled melted butter. Add the yeast mixture to the flour mixture. This will form soft dough. Knead the dough gently. After that, place the dough in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rise for about 45 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).After the dough has risen, knead and shape the dough into 9 balls. Butter and flour a 9 inch square pan. Arrange the dough balls into the pan. Cover the dough for another 15 minutes. Let it rise again. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown and puffy. Split the Cornish and serve.

Butter Tarts

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:27:29 +0000

Ingredients
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch pie
2 eggs
2/3 cup butter
1 cup golden syrup
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups raisins
Directions
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Before making the filling, line three inch tart tins with pastry and refrigerate the tart tins. For the filling, melt butter in a medium sauce pan, pour in syrup, brown sugar, nutmeg, raisins. Add salt in the mixture. Let mixture cool. Beat the eggs and then add into the butter syrup. Pour the butter syrup mixture into pastry lined tart tins. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Do not remove the tart immediately after baking. Let it cool down for at least 10 minutes before removal.