Organic Samm

Oh, the pic says it all. Gingerbread Man Egg Toast. Malcolm claims that he cant eat the Felted Gingerbread Man that i made. Since he cant get me to buy him another Gingerbread Man Cookie from Coffee Bean, this is the closest thing to the edible version that he can get, lol. Pray the teary bedtime episodes ends here. I’m starting to see Gingerbread Man in my dreams, blehhh….

It’s a long weekend for folks in Malaysia. We’re all celebrating Deepavali holidays at home since hubby isnt home for the weekend. The kids still woke up early at 8am despite today being a public holiday. What to do, have to follow suit. Lucky for me MIL bought breakfast of wantan meen for us.

Malcolm’s been bugging me to buy him a cake since last night. He saw his brother’s Children’s Day Celebration pics on the phone and wanted to have too. I remembered the Dutch Oven in the kitchen and went to rummage the fridge for ingredients. I wanted to try steaming a Butter Cake with it. Malcolm’s a lucky boy today. I have everything needed for a Steamed Butter Cake!!! You can see them all in the pic above.

Ingredients:

A) 280g butter
240g sugar

B) 4 eggs

C) 300g flour
2 1/2 tbsp double action baking powder

D) Some chopped Toblerone chocolate ( or whatever you fancy. Can be raisins or nuts)

Method:

1) Lightly grease and line a 20cm round mould

2) Beat A until light and fluffy. Add in B slowly, and cream till smooth and light.

3) Add in sieved C, mix until well-blended.

4) Pour batter into greased mould. Add D to it and mix it a bit.

5) Steam for 70 minutes.

6) Leave the cake aside for 5 minutes before taking it out of the mould. Best served warm.

Here’s the Steamed Butter Cake batter all ready for the Dutch Oven. (I halved the ingredients as i only have a 15cm mould. If you intend to do that, the 70 minutes steaming time remains the same, ok.)

Placed it into the Dutch Oven at 5.35pm on high. (water in the pot already at boiling point when i placed the cake mould in)

At 5.45pm, i turned the heat down to low. I placed the mould in slightly to one side of the Dutch Oven. Dare not open the cover to adjust it as i was afraid it might interfere with the steaming process due to temperature change. I’ll be more careful next time.

At 5.50pm, i can see that it’s rising beautifully albeit a little high on the left side, lol.

As the recipe calls for a 70 minutes steaming time, i turned the heat off and left the butter cake inside the Dutch Oven for a short while. The first time i steamed my corn cake, i took the lid off the wok as soon as i turned the heat off and the cake just shrunk, LOL!!!! Smarter now.

And here’s a very anxious-looking Malcolm waiting for his steamed butter cake.

Beh tahan liao….. started blowing at the cake to help it cool down faster, LOL. CUTE!!!!

And this is Malcolm’s Steamed Butter Cake with chopped up Toblerone in it. Yummmssss…… have some?

This is the Steamed Marble Butter Cake my friend, Keyna, made with my recipe. She replaced the Toblerone with Hershey’s Choc Syrup. See how beautiful the cake turned out.

Here’s another pic of the cake. She said she whacked it all up!!!!!!! So, go try the recipe out. Dont forget to send me a pic so i can add it to this post.

Am boiling some rice water with a handful of red dates now. It’s a very good healing tonic that helps replenishes a tired body. It is a very quick and easy healing tonic to prepare at home. This healing tonic has helped me a lot over the years. It was taught to my mom by a chinese physician.

I’m sure most of you cook rice at home everyday, right. You will be using the water you rinse the rice grains with for this tonic. Dont be surprised that this very water you discard with each rinsing contains a lot of essential nutrients. Do not use the water from the first rinsing as it’s supposed to wash away most of the dirt from the rice you bought from the store. Instead, retain the water from the second and third rinsing. I usually end up with around 800- 1000ml of rice water.

Next, pour all the water into a pot. Prepare around 20 red dates and remove all the seeds. Boil the red dates together with the rice water on high for 15 minutes, then switch to low to continue boiling for at least two hours. Once ready, pour into a thermos flask and consume within a day. You can drink this healing tonic everyday for as long as you like.