Some Dutch recipes to stun your friends

 

 

Dutch Apple Cake

The Dutch drink a lot of coffee, and a real Dutch experience is having coffee at 11.00 am, served with Dutch apple cake.

Needed for the dough
2 cups of flour
salt
1 1/2 stick (= 6 oz) of butter or margerine
1/2 cup of sugar
drops of vanilla or some scraped peel of a lemon (just the yellow bits)
1 egg
1 or two table spoons of plain bread crumbs

Needed for the filling
2 lb apples (firm and tart)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup of raisins (rinsed and then dried)
2 teaspoons of cinnamon

Instructions
Make a dough of the ingredients but leave a bit of the egg . Put about about a handful of the dough aside. Cover the bottom and sides of the tin, which is previously greased and powdered with some flour. Sprinkle the bread crumbs on the bottom to soak up excess apple juice. Peel the apple and cut them in small thin slices. Mix these with the raisons (washed and dried) and the sugar and cinnamon. Put the filling in the cake and cover the top with thin rolls of dough, pressed flat (four horizontal and four vertical, to make a diamon shaped pattern). Cover these with the remaining egg to make them shine. Put the cake in the bottom of a preheated oven on 375 F for 60 minutes.


Lemon Buttermilk Jelly

3 pints (6 cups) of buttermilk
1 cup of granulated sugar
3 lemons
7 envelopes Knox gelatine (= 2 boxes)
1/2 cup water

Instructions
Mix buttermilk, lemon juice and lemon peel in a bowl. Put the water in a sauce pan and dissolve the gelatine in it, not all will dissolve but that will happen once you heat the water and stir. Once gelatine is dissolved, add the sugar, stir and turn off the heat. When the mix is a just a bit cooled off carefully pour it in the buttermilk mix while stirring. When everything is mixed put it into a fresh bowl which is rinsed first. Put in te fridge to let it set for a few hours. It's best just to serve it in the bowl, I've never managed to turn the jelly upside down on a plate, but I'm not a great cook. If you know how to do it, please let me know!!!


Zandkoekjes ("Sand Cookies")

Needed
1 1/2 cup flour (I mix equal amounts of white and whole wheat flour)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 stick and 2 tbs margerine
bit of salt

Instructions
Knead and roll little balls of about 1.5 inch or 4 cm diameter, press them flat and put them on a cookie sheet.
Put the sheet in the oven at 325 F for 15 minutes.
You can turn the cookies into "Krentenkoekjes" if you mix the dough with raisons.

 

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