ORCHIDS

Cymbidium Orchids
The growing cymbidium orchids are in full bloom, they are inside and adorning the room, it is almost like a greenhouse, there are beautiful flowers everywhere.
As an orchids grower or at least minder, I am proud to show off, my flowers.  More flowers to come, the budding pink cymbidium will soon open, they are going to be so spectacular.

Beautiful Flowering Cymbidium

The room looks great, everything is as it is supposed to be, they all make sense.  To celebrate that, baking for morning tea was in place, 'apple strudel'.


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Apple Strudel

Ingredients
825 g apples, peeled and sliced
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon almond meal
1 tablespoon custard powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 layers water pastry, brush with melted butter in between
20 g chopped unsalted butter
1 tablespoon almond flakes for topping.

Method
Preheat oven at 175 degrees C Fan forced.
Mix the apple, sugar and cinnamon, and cook for a few minutes until the sugar is dissolved.
Keep the apple stay firm, but cooked.  Keep aside to cool
When it is cold, assemble the strudel
Add in the almond meal, custard powder, vanilla essence to the apple, mix them together.
Put a piece of baking paper on a baking tray, and place the prepared pastry on it.
Place the apple mixture onto the prepared pastry, add in the butter, and roll the pastry over to enclosed the filling.

Bake in the preheated oven on 175 degrees C for 25 minutes
Take it out, brush the top of the strudel with water and sprinkle with the almond flakes
Continue baking for another 7 minutes until golden brown.
Transfer onto a serving plate.

To serve
Dust the strudel with icing sugar, serve hot or at room temperature, with whipped cream or ice cream.

The strudel is delicious to be eaten cold for the next day.

Enjoy the recipe, happy baking.  Please look up the water pastry recipe at the older post.

Flower Arrangement of Orchids

Cymbidium Orchid Flowers in Large Vases

The cut flowers should stay long enough in the glass vase.

I think this year is a good year for the orchids, out of thirty orchid plants, thirteen plants are flowering.  Last year only about five plants were in flowers.

After the morning routine, busy doing work and able to stop to have a cuppa with family and friends is a treat, today is one of those days.  Thank you, Irene and Tim, for coming, we had a lovely morning.

Have a Good Weekend

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