Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos
at October 22, 2008 at 10:51 PM. 
"They cannot know nor dream
How much dreams command life,
How, when a man dreams,
The world leaps and bounds,
Like a brightly coloured ball
Between a child’s small hands."
António Gedeão,
Pedra Filosofal in
Movimento Perpétuo, 1956
Indian milk candy
To 130 g (13 small 10g balls):
500 ml whole milk
57 g sugar
10 g butter
Cinnamon and curry
Bring the milk to boil strring constantly to thicken (as a soft dough); approximately 20 minutes.
Add sugar and butter and keep stirring while cooking in low heat until you can create a ditch in the bottom of the pan when you run the spoon through the center of the mixture.
Put the mixture into a plate and allow it to cool down.
Roll 1 teaspoon of mixture into small balls (grease your hands with butter before making the balls).
Roll the small balls in a 2 cinnamon:1 curry mixture.
Place balls in small paper cases and the on a serving plate.
Labels: cinnamon, curry, india, milk, recipes
Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos
at October 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM.
Milk bread
Makes 20:
500 g all-purpose flour
1 egg
10 g salt
50 g sugar
20 g fresh yeast
200 ml warm milk
125 g butter, softened
In the mixer, combine all the ingredients (except butter) together with the dough hook attachment and the yeast dissolved in the milk.
Mix for 10 minutes at medium speed.
Slowly fold in the butter.
Place the dough into a bowl covered with a cloth or wrap film, in a tempered place (24ºC) for 1 hour or until it doubles its size.
Fold gently.
Place egg-sized dough balls into a greased baking sheet leaving 2 cms between them.
Brush with egg yolk dissolved in water.
Let it rest again, in a tempered place, for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC.
Brush agains with the egg mixture, sprinkle with sugar and make a cross shaped cut on top of each bread.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Let them cool down over a rack.
Labels: bread, milk