A very popular jam made with apricots. You can find it at any market or you can try making it at home:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups apricots (dried firmly-packed)
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions:
Wash fruit, soak 8 hours in the 4 c of water. Place over heat in water in which it has been soaked; simmer until very soft; rub through coarse sieve, return pulp to heat; when it reaches boiling point, add sugar and simmer gently for 40 to 45 minutes, stirring almost constantly as it scorches very easily. Add cinnamon while cooking. And pour into an sterilized container.
Chocolate is the result of a proccess that originates from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Very common ingredient in many kinds of confections such as pastry, baking, cooking, ice cream, and cocktails as ingredient or decorative item.
Types of Chocolate:
* Unsweetened chocolate: also known as bitter or baking chocolate.
* Dark Chocolate: chocolate without milk, it is also called plain chocolate, it is used to decorate cocktails when melted.
* Milk Chocolate: chocolate with milk powder or condensed milk added.
* Semisweet Chocolate: dark chocolate with high sugar content used for cooking.
* Bittersweet Chocolate: unsweetened chocolate with some sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla and sometimes lecithin.
* Coverture Chocolate: chocolate rich in cocoa butter, very popular in pastry.
* White Chocolate: a confection based on cocoa butter without cocoa solids.
* Cocoa Powder: unsweetened baking cocoa powder that comes in natural and Dutch process cocoa, which is frequently used for chocolate drinks and cocktails garnishing sprinkled.
Coffee the worldwide famous drink of every day, it comes from a seed of the coffee tree, which is ground to make coffee.
In the cocktails world, coffee will be used as ingredient and decorative purposes:
Black Coffee: a hot beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans.
Coffee Powder: instant coffee powder is a powdered coffee made by heat and dry freshly brewed coffee.
Condensed milk is milk reduced by evaporation, with sugar added.
Mint is an aromatic herb used in cocktails as garnish or ingredient.
Orange Sorbet is a sort of ice cream but without cream. Here it is a homemade recipe for you to try or to figure out what it is about.
Ingredients:
250g 98oz) granulated sugar
600ml (1 pint) water
300ml (½ pints) unsweetened orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon finely grated orange rind
Serves 4
Instructions:
Place sugar and water in a pan over moderate heat and stir until dissolved. Bring to boil and continue to boil for 5 minutes. Cool to room temperature, and then stir in the fruit juices and orange rind. Pour into a shallow freezer proof tray. Freeze to a snowy, granular texture stirring every 30 minutes. Spoon into 4 tall glasses and serve immediately. (If the ice freezes solid, transfer to the fridge to soften until it can be mashed with a fork.)
This recipe also works well with lemon instead of orange.
Oysters belong to the group of shellfish and the edible ones can be eaten half shelled raw, smoked, boiled, baked, fried, roasted, stewed, canned, pickled, steamed, broiled (grilled) or used in a variety of drinks.
Panela is an unrefined rough and dark sweetener obtained from sugarcane juice, it is typical of Central and South America and it comes in a shape of a brick which can be chopped or shaved and used in different kinds of food preparations.
