A traditional pound cake recipe would specify one pound each of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. These quantities are too great for most modern families, but an excellent cake can be made with half quantities. It is usual to weigh…
Known as pilau, pullao, pulao and pilaf, this rice dish will take between up to an hour to prepare if made the traditional way. The cooking time can be reduced with various ingredient compromises, like using ready-fried onions instead of…
This is the traditional pie crust. To ensure a flakey crust (considered desirable), you need to use lard and you need to keep the lard from melting. It’s best to use a cold stone rolling pin and surface, and to…
Here’s a traditionalist view on how to make it, which shares much with George Orwell’s essay, “A Nice Cup of Tea”. Ingredients Loose-leaf tea Milk (traditionally full-fat, but semi-skimmed will do) Procedure Bring freshly drawn water to a boil in…
Ingredients 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 large ripe plantain Procedure Heat oil in a frying pan over low heat. Peel plantain, and cut it horizontally or in circular slices. Add plantains to frying pan and fry on both sides for…
Tostón is a Venezuelan vegetable side dish of fried plantain. These can be served hot or at room temperature with a dipping sauce or salsa as an appetiser or plain as an accompaniment to a main course. Ingredients 2 green…
People visiting Spain will sooner or later come face to face with a typical Spanish delicacy called the tortilla. You can find this dish in every bar, pub or restaurant in the country. The tortilla can be ordered as a…
Tortilla de patatas (potato omelette) is also sometimes called Tortilla española de patatas (Spanish omelette) to differentiate it from the dish commonly known as tortilla francesa (French omelette) or just tortilla, which is made only with eggs, as well as…
The addition of cheese to the stuffing used in these stuffed tomatoes means added flavor, as well as nutritive value in the form of protein, the food substance in which the tomatoes themselves are lacking. The bread crumbs used for…
This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients 1 ounce ham Butter ½ onion ½ carrot ½ stalk celery 1…
This tomato salad can be served as a side dish, on toast, or in another salad. Ingredients 750 grams (26 oz) tomato 3–4 small onions 3 cloves of garlic Salt Pepper Olive oil Procedure Chop the onions really fine. Boil…
Ingredients 3–4 quarts boiling salted water 8 ounces spaghetti 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 slices smoked bacon, diced 1 medium onion, chopped ½ teaspoon–1 tablespoon crushed red pepper 12–16 ounces tomato sauce 2–4 ounces freshly-grated Parmesan cheese Procedure Boil spaghetti…