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White Asparagus soup

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

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Makes 5 to 6 servings of yummy white asparagus soup.

Ingredients for white asparagus soup:

2,5 l water from boiling asparagus
5 tbsp. butter
5 tbsp. flour

250 ml milk
1 white bun or bread
a half spring onion

White asparagus soup

German white asparagus soup

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You have boiled asparagus and don’t know what to do with the boiling water? Why not prepare a white asparagus soup?

We had our first white asparagus of the season on thursday.
How to cook asparagus:
In our household about 1 kg asparagus is boiled in 2,5 liter water that is druged with some sugar, butter and salt. This time we wanted to keep the aromatic boiling water as an ingredient and decided to make asparagus soup with it.
This broth is the ideal base for a creamy white asparagus soup e.g. with bread crumbs.

Foreword about white asparagus soup:
Do you like white asparagus? Do you also like white asparagus soup? Or have you ever prepared such a soup?

This year the asparagus season started in North Rhine-Westphalia on April 22th, 2010.
So we are quite late with our first asparagus but anyway not too late to get verry good asparagus for about 3 € per kilogramm on the daily
market in Bonn.

Fact Of The Week About Germany:
Asparagus Season in Germany:

The Asparagus Season in Germany begins every year dependent on the weather conditions round about the second half of april and is officially over on 24th of june.

Germany’s most known growing areas for asparagus are in
Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg,
Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate.

A famous german recipe is white asparagus soup.

Preparation of white asparagus soup:

  1. Melt the butter in a big pot on medium heat.
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Rice pudding recipe with cinnamon and peaches

Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Makes 5 to 6 servings of this rice pudding recipe.

Rice pudding recipe ingredients:

125 g dry rice
500 ml milk

25 g sugar
10 g cinnamon
2 tbsp.
vanilla sugar
6 half peaches, canned
Rice pudding recipe with cinnamon and peaches
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dessert recipe.

Do you favor to have a sweet or a hearty breakfast?
We were at odds with each other about this question but the rice pudding recipe with cinnamon and sugar, with it’s sweet and fruity flavour that we had today was delicious..

Foreword:
As we stood up today (sunday) we didn’t wanted to go to the bakery to get
some rolls. This time we decided to prepare a light energizer for an active day.
So we took a look into our storage cupboard and prepared rice pudding with
canned peaches.

Fact Of The Week About Germany:

Opening Hours in Germany
 

Shops in Germany usually by law aren’t open
on sundays and official holidays with some exceptions like:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • shopping centers or supermarkets on extraordinary events,
  • shops at airports and railway stations,
  • gas stations,
  • some emergency drugstores,
  • restaurants,
  • bars and discos,
  • or some bakeries or bazars for different goods.

Preparation of rice pudding recipe with cinnamon and peaches:

     

  1. Warm up the milk in a pot carefully (keep an eye on it!) until it boils.
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Rhubarb cake with meringue

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

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Makes 5 to 6 servings rhubarb cake:

Ingredients:

500 g rhubarb
100 g margarine (optional butter)

125 g sugar
2 tbsp. baking powder
125 g custard powder vanilla
300 ml milk
100 g powdered sugar
3 eggs

Rhubarb recipe

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There are several rhubarb recipes in Germany. We use to prepare rhubarb when it is fresh available on markets. The fresh sour rhubarb is an interesting product for several dessert recipes.
A lot of german rhubarb recipes are for cakes, muffins, tortes other rhubarb recipes are for example spreads.

Preparation of rhubarb cake with meringue:

  1. Seperate the eggs.
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Easter bread or yeast bread recipe

Friday, April 16th, 2010
Makes 5 to 6 servings of yeast or easter bread:

500 g flour
42 g yeast
200 ml milk
75 g sugar
lemon zest of one midsize lemon
100 g margarine (optional butter)
1 teasp. salt
1 egg white
1 egg yolk
1 tblsp. milk
25 g coarse sugar
25 g chopped almonds 

 

 

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Preparation of easter bread or yeast bread:

     

  1. Pour flour and sugar in a big mixing bowl. Heat up the milk in a cup in the microwave until it is handwarm. Then dissolve the yeast in the
    milk.
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Sour creme tangerine muffin recipe

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Muffin recipe makes 12 muffins.

Ingredients for the dough:

50 g butter
1 egg
100 g flour
35 g sugar
2 teasp. vanilla sugar
1/2 teasp. baking powder
Sour creme tangerine muffin recipe 

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Ingredients for the filling:
150 g marinated tangerines
250 ml milk
37 g custard powder vanilla
75 g sugar
a pinch of salt
200 g sour cream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preparation of the dough:

1. Fill the flour in a mixing bowl add the other ingredients and mix it to a fine dough. Now put the dough in the fridge.
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Vanilla pudding

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Ingredients for vanilla
pudding for 3-4 servings:

1/2 vanilla pod
45 g cornstarch
2 eggs
pinch of salt
500ml cold milk
70 g sugar
1-2 tbsp. butter
Vanilla pudding 

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Preparation of vanilla pudding:

1. Cut the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the pulp.
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