Spirits (Continued)

Fortified Wine



Madeira 
Traditional fortified wine like port, sherry and Madeira have long held a favoured place in the kitchen, their intense flavours giving to sweet and savoury dishes.  Madeira from the island of the same name, Madeira is made from a light, white base wine sometimes supplemented with grape from the local red grape, tinta negra mole. For the sweet styles, Bual or Malmsey, fermentation may be interrupted early by the addition of grape spirits, so that they retain the natural sugar.  The other forms are Sercial or Verdelho.

Dry Madeiras such as Sercial are good in consommé, while sweeter ones work well in fruit cakes and desserts.

Camembert Cheese

Serve the Madeira for a dessert with Camembert cheese, and fresh fruits,  such as sliced apricots or apples if you wish.

Vermouth - Noilly Prat

The distinctive character of vermouth owes much to the automating herbs and botanical ingredients that are used to flavour it before bottling.
The added herbal ingredients include clove, cinnamon, citrus peel, quinine and ginger.

Bone - dry pale vermouth is Noilly Prat made from the south of France.  The herbal ingredient in dry vermouth adds a savoury note to fish, chicken, and mushroom dishes.

I cooked salmon mouse a while ago, flavoured with Noilly Prat, and that was very delicious.

Cooking with Liqueurs

It has been raining for the past few days, cold and wet.  I thought it's a good day for baking.

There are many varieties of spirits and liqueurs.
In this topic,  I am only talking about a few of them that I have in my cupboard.  I like to use the liquor if I do cooking with spirits and liqueurs.

Liqueur-Kahlua

a sliced banana jam roll with Kahlua

Susy's Recipe:

Banana Jam Roll with Kahlua.

Ingredients

2 cups full self-raising flour

85g unsalted butter

1 cup of banana Jam + 4 caps of Kahlua, mix together

1teaspoon coffee powder mixed with 1 teaspoon white sugar

The liquid (wet ingredients)

- 1 egg

- 1/2 cup milk

- 1 tablespoon banana jam

Bake the roll in preheated oven 200 degrees C for 18 minutes.

What To Do

the ingredients

banana jam and Kahlua, a half cup of milk

rub the butter into the flour,

add all the liquid ingredients at once (the banana jam, egg,

milk and the Kahlua) to it to make a soft dough

roll the dough thinly, spread butter and sprinkle

with coffee and sugar mix, fold once and roll it out

again to the same thickness and shape

spread the banana jam and Kahlua mix

roll it as you would for a Swiss roll (sorry I forgot

to take a photo), mark the turn with a sharp knife,

Bake in preheated oven for 18minutes.

freshly baked banana jam roll with Kahlua

To serve:
- sliced plain or dust with icing sugar
- add topping ( coffee, Kahlua, chocolate icing),  sliced.

The banana jam roll is made of scone dough,  beautiful rough texture on the outside, soft and sweet in the middle.  A treat for any time,  a very friendly home cooking.

Have  A  Good  Weekend

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Susy