German Orange Cake

Ingredients Quantity
Sugar 85 gm
Eggs 4
Orange juice 1 orange
Castor sugar 10 gm
Rum 2 tbsp
Orange peel a little
Refined flour 85 gm
Butter 60 gm
For Icing
Icing sugar 115 gm
Orange juice as needed
Methods to Prepare:
  • Cream 3 eggs yolk and sugar till light and fluffy.
  • Add 1 whole egg, orange juice, castor sugar well rubbed with orange peel and rum. Beat thoroughly.
  • Fold in flour and warmed butter. Add stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs.
  • Pour in to a buttered tin and cook at 175 degree celcius (about 350 degree fahrenheit) for 30 - 40 minutes. When cold coat with icing.
For Icing:
  • Add warm orange juice gradually ti icing sugar and keep on beating. When thick pour over cake.

Fish With Piquant Sauce

Ingredients Quantity
Fresh haddock 1 kg
Butter 60 gm
Refined flour 15 gm
Small mushrooms 115 gm
Chopped parsley 1/2 tbsp
Minced onions 2 tbsp
Capers 1 tbsp
Lime 1/2
Mustard 1/2 tsp
Meat extract 1/2 tsp
Water 150 ml
Salt and pepper 150 ml
Methods to Prepare:
  • Cut haddock into medium-sized pieces. Rub with salt, coat with parsley and set aside for 30 minutes.
  • Mix butter, flour and mustard to a stiff paste.
  • Stir in meat extract, water, lime juice and pepper and add to paste.
  • Pour a little of this sauce into a casserole.
  • Lay fish and sliced mushrooms in sauce.
  • Sprinkle with onions and capers.
  • Cover with rest of sauce. Place a piece of buttered papper over casserole and put on the lid.
  • Stand casserole in a large pan of boiling water and cook for 30 - 35 minutes.

Stuben Kucken

Ingredients Quantity
Spring
Chickens 2
Milk 250 ml
Bread 115 gm
Turnips 115 gm
Eggs 4
Bacon 60 gm
Butter 115 gm
Salt and pepper to taste

Methods to prepare:
  • Clean and truss chicken.
  • Remove liver. Chop and mix with Bread soaked in milk, finely chopped turnips, 2 whole eggs and 2 yolks.
  • Seaon with salt and pepper.
  • Cook mixture to a light brown in butter and stuff chicken with it.
  • Place a piece of bacon over each bird.
  • Tie with a string and roast for about 25 minutes at 175 degree celcius (350 degree Farenheit), basting frequently.

Fish Balls with Spinach

Ingredients Quantity
Fish 500 gm
Bread 15 gm
Refined flour 10 gm
Egg 1
Onions 15 gm
Milk 30 ml
Spinach 500 gm
Anchovies a few fillets
Breadcrumbs 20 gm
Salt and pepper and nutmug to taste
Butter 30 gm
Fat to fry

Methods to prepare:
  • Boil fish in bouillon.
  • Bone and skin. Mix with bread soaked in milk and squeezed.
  • Add finely chopped onions sauteed in a little butter.
  • Season with salt, pepper and nutmug.
  • Shape into rissoles.
  • Dip in flour, then in egg and breadcrumbs and deep fry.
  • Drain on absorbent paper and serve garnished with chopped spinach cooked in butter to which some chopped anchovy hass been added.

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