Sauda Over Ice

You can't go wrong sticking with the basics.It's just espresso over ice,with enough sweetened milk to mellow it out.


Ingredients(serves one):

2 shots espresso
2 tbs condensed milk,sweetened
Ice cubes


Preparation:

Add espresso and condensed milk to cocktail shaker,with enough ice to fill it up.Shake the espresso mixture vigorously to make it frothy and serve immediately.

Ginger Lemonade

Fresh ginger gives traditional lemonade a new flavour.Be careful though, the ginger is a very potent ingredient.Ginger lemonade goes well with a summer lunch of Asian cusinie.


Ingredients:

4 cups lemon juice
4 quarts water
3 cups sugar
14 slices of fresh ginger


Preparation:


Put water,sugar and ginger root together in a saucepan and heat until boiling.Remove from heat and stir in 4 cups of lemon juice(fresh or bottled).Let it sit and cool for about 20 minutes or so,then remove the ginger root pieces.Chill your ginger lemonade before serving.


Sliced ginger will make strong lemonade,but if you really like the ginger taste,you could chop into smaller pieces for more flavour.Just make sure to strain your lemonade well before serving.

Classic Lemonade

Lemons,sugar and water.The most simple lemonade recipe, and yet so refreshing.Your drinks don't have to be complicated to be refreshing.Make up a jug today, and relax on the patio.


Ingredients:

6 lemons
6 cups cold water
1 cup sugar


Preparation:

Juice your lemons,and you should get about 1 cup of fresh lemon juice.You can use bottled if you must, but the flavor won't be as crisp.In a large pitcher, mix lemon juice,water and sugar.Stir lemonade well and serve over ice,with a lemon slice or two to garnish.

Vanilla Cake

(cake image without icing)


Cake ingredients:

2/3 cup all purpose flour
or
(2/3 cup corn starch,2/3 cup potato starch)if available

1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon guar gum
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon anise extract
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
2/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons oil



Icing ingredients:

1/2 stick of butter
3 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Directions:

1. Use a mixer to beat butter, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract to make the icing. Cool icing in the refrigerator.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking pan with shortening

3. Sift together sugar, all purpose flour or (corn starch and potato starch)
in mixing bowl. Add in the following ingredients in listed order and mix with a flat, flexible blade : baking soda, guar gum, baking powder, salt, anise extract, egg, milk, sugar and oil.

4. Once the ingredients have been mixed and softened, scrape the mixture into a round baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a serving plate.

5. Spread icing evenly over cake.



Note:

Replace all purpose flour with corn starch & potato starch to give Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake


About Gaur gam:



Guar Gum is a white to yellowish white powder and is nearly odorless.

The most common used of Guar gum is its use as thickening agent or thickener. The thickening agent provides body, increase stability, and improve suspending action.

Thickening agents are most often as food additives. Thickeners are frequently based on polysaccharides (starches or vegetable gums) or proteins.

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