Hokey Pokey

Description

Sticky 'cinder' toffee. With NO added cinder.

Ingredients

Caster Sugar -100g
Golden Syrup -4tbsp (i think this is tablespoon and not tablespam)
Bicarbonate of Soda - 1 and half teaspoon

Directions

Mix sugary stuff then boil it in a pan. Do not add any albatross at this point. When it has been boiling a bit, mix in the bicarb. It will go frothy. Still add no albatross but you may consider a small frog. Pour onto a flat thing it will spread out. Let it go cold. When it is cold hit it with a hammer.
Crunchy sweet stuff is made.

Michael Palin Sweet Deep Fried Doughnuts

Description

This is a recipe for Michael Palin Doughnuts. Why are they called Michael Palin Donuts? We'll be trying out and posting many recipes throughout the year often named after a celebrity, someone we admire, or dedicating a dish to something that brings us laughs, smiles, and hopefully not indisgestion! In this case these spherical pieces of dough will be called 'Michael Palin Doughnuts'. Try to make these when you have time on a Saturday or Sunday, and please suggest improvements to the recipe.

Ingredients

Michael Palin doughnuts
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
  • 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 quart vegetable oil for frying
  • powdered sugar
  • color sprinkles (optional)
Optional Glaze Ingredients
  • powdered sugar
  • 1/8 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/2 tbsp. butter
  • Mix into Glaze and pour over doughnuts

Directions

  1. Prepare a floured kitchen counter or bread board for kneading the donuts
  2. Prepare a dish or plate with an inch of flour
  3. You'll want a clean area with paper towls or torn brown paper bags to drain your donuts once you remove them from the oil
  4. Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and nutmeg
  5. Mix in butter until crumbly
  6. Stir in milk and egg
  7. With floured hands, lightly knead the smooth dough. Turn onto area prepared with flour. Pat dough into 1/4 inch thickness
  8. You can dip either doughnut cutter or two biscuit cutters (one 1-inch and one 3 or 4-inch) in flour. Use to cut-out doughnuts -- OR
  9. Join the ends of the long skinny pieces of dough
  10. Make sure to heat the oil in a deep pot to 375.00° Degrees Fahrenheit (190.5 Celsius) before you are ready to drop the doughnuts in
  11. Carefully drop donuts into hot oil, only a few at a time. Time to fry may vary but the doughnuts should be in the oil for about 2 minutes to up to 3 minutes (until golden brown), turning over once
  12. Drain on prepared paper towels or brown paper
  13. Sprinkle with powdered sugar OR carefully pour glaze mixture over doughnuts
  14. EXTRA CREDIT - Decorate with spinkles using Union Jack Colors
  15. Enjoy while watching Michael Palin Flying Circus Sketches!!
TV at la Burning Flame with russian candlesticks and books with strawberry up your nose with tabasco

Description

A very spicy dish.

Ingredients

A TV.
An olympic torch
russian candlesticks from Siberia made with chocolate
Books from 1756
Strawberries
2 bottles of Tabasco

Directions

First you must drink the whole bottle of Tabasco, your mouth and teeth will be burning .
When your whole mouth is on fire you blow over the torch , and then burn that tv , oh yeah wow, burn thhat tv wow.
While the Tv is burning you put the russian candlesticks over it and let the chocolate melt but while the chocolate melt you eat the naughty thing wow yeh you eat that candlestick .
You eat all while you are reading books form 1756 about dated philosophies and themes but you are a very cultured person and want to eat and develop the mind at the same time.
Then you take the second bottle tabasco and filled the strawberries with it and put it in your nostrils, then your nose will become a flame and you can work in a circus.
This desert is delightful, good for royalty dinners.

Eggs of melting chocolate in the head with rotten salad in the feet

Description

A wonderful desert

Ingredients

1. Kinder Chocolate eggs or the like, 5 tons of it
2. Tomatoes, beans ,bananas, rice,etc. all rotten and smelly
3. All your relatives and friends so they can have a laugh

Directions

You take the 5 tons of chocolates and melt it all in your oven . It´s better if the oven is new cause then you got to buy a new one, due to the weight of the 5 tons over it.
Then you spill it all on somebody´s head , but leaving 2 holes in the nose so the person can breathe. You let the person become a mountain of chocolate 5 hours , but you must protect the feet with plastic and a firemen brigade singing Palestrina.
Then you take the dirty rotten salad and with very careful and gentle moves you place the rotten things around the feet , as a sign of high cuisine for the contest.
If somebody eat this , well they will get very sick
Bon Appetite

Edna's Coconut Pumpkin Custard

Description

I’ve been asked by several of you “Edna, What can we do with coconuts besides bang the husks together to sally forth upon quests for Grails and wear them as decorative bikini tops whilst visiting tropical paradises?” Well I thought long and hard on this one, even consulted with wise coconut scientists at the North Sheffield Coconut Research Facility whose main job is to track the progression of tropical migratory coconuts in the United Kingdom... and guess what I found out, The coconut is a nut from a tree!! Thats right! It is a growing living thing much like you or I but without having to pay taxes or stand in ques for the cinema. The Tree itself is quite lovely, a member of the Arecaceaea Family (unlike the Larch which is In the Pinaceae family) and grows only in the tropical zones of the world. Did you know that coconuts contain meat? well not the type you and I are used to I tell you but in fact this pulpy white protien filled edible treat is in fact endosperm comming from the nut ( my editor will give me such hard time for putting it that way, I mean sounds downright sexual doesn’t it?). It is this pulp that is used in cooking and making coconut “milk” not to be confused with coconut water which is the liquid found in your nut (which is only edible when your nuts are green which means it is a young or tender coconut). Now I have found hundreds of recipes dating back to god knows when, from all over the globe, but have decided this simple one would be best to get our feet wet with coconut milk as it were.

Ingredients

thick coconut milk - 1 cup Ooh so creamy and sweet
thin coconut milk - 1/2 cup
powdered milk - 4 tbsp
jaggery powder - 3/4 cup or to taste You can substitute brown sugar
eggs - 8
pumpkin pieces - 1 cup
cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp

Directions

Steam the pumpkin pieces for 10 minutes.
Warm thin coconut milk and mix milk powder in it.
Grind the pumpkin with this milk. And mix with thick coconut milk .
Add lightly beaten eggs. Add jaggery and stir till dissolved. Add nutmeg and cardamom.
Pour the mixture in a pudding mould. Cover with a lid and steam for 45 minutes.
Cool and chill in the refrigerator. Serve sliced, trickled with some honey if desired.

Edna's Crunchy Frog

Description

With the holidays fast approaching, one needs something to bribe the kids into unquestionable obedience. Husbands also can be brought into line with a sweet morsal or two. Many candy-supply stores sell plastic chocolate molds in the shape of animals. I like frogs, they remind me of my first luv Harry Largetumor. Short squat with bulgy eyes, oooh the wonderful things that man had under his clothes. Tiny candy eyes are available, too. Look in the Yellow Pages under candy-making supplies.

Ingredients

(Makes 12 to 14 small frogs) 1 (12-ounce) bag chocolate chips, or 12-ounce bar chocolate, broken into pieces. 1 teaspoon grated chocolate 1 plastic mold for bite-size frogs 1 cup Crushed walnuts or prailines Small candy eyes.

Directions

Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave chocolate on high power for 2 minutes.
Stir. Continue microwaving in 15-second increments until chocolate is almost completely melted.
Remove from microwave and grate 1 teaspoon additional chocolate over the melted chocolate;
stir until smooth.
Mix in walnuts or prailines
Fill mold with melted chocolate, reserving about 1 tablespoon melted chocolate. Refrigerate molds until chocolate is firm, about 2 hours. Remove frogs from molds. "Glue" eyes onto the frogs with remaining melted chocolate. Store at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Edna's Wafer Thin Mints

Description

Pure decadence in a wisp of a biscuit, This has been known as an end to the most scrumptious of affairs, the light tantalizing taste of mint sends me to the brink of orgasm every time.

Ingredients

Chocolate Wafers: 8 ounces butter, room temperature 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract 1 cup cocoa powder 3/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt 1 1/2 cups pastry flour Chocolate Peppermint Coating: 1 pound good quality semisweet chocolate, chopped 1/4 teaspoon plus a couple drops of natural peppermint extract Preheat your oven to 350. Racks in the middle zone.

Directions

Make the cookie dough: In a mixer cream the butter until it is light
and fluffy, like a cloud on a summer’s day in Brighton.
Add the powdered sugar and cream some more, scraping the
sides of the bowl a couple times if necessary.
Stir in the vanilla extract and then the salt and cocoa powder.
Mix until the cocoa powder is integrated and the batter is smooth and creamy, sort of like a thick frosting.
Add the pastry flour and mix just until the batter is no longer
dusty looking, it might still be a bit crumbly. You don't want to over mix
and end up with tough cookies, everyone hates tough cookies, in fact that is why we use that phrase “Tough Cookies” because everyone hates them so.
Turn the dough out onto a counter, gather it into a ball, and kneed it
just once or twice to bring it together into one nice, smooth mass.
Place the ball of dough into a large plastic bag and flatten it into a disk
roughly 3/4-inch thick. Place the dough in the freezer for 20 minutes to
chill.
This is when I start hitting the cooking sherry, it makes the rest of the process flow so nice.
Rollout and bake: Remove the dough from the freezer and roll it out
really thin...wafer thin to be exact. You can either roll it out between two sheets of plastic, or dust your counter and rolling pin with a bit of flour and do it that way.
I always use festive cookie cutters to cut out the cookie in my favourite
animal shapes, Penguins, Orangoutangs, Ocelots, Vicars.
Place cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 10
minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool
completely on a baking rack if you've got one.

Make the peppermint coating:
Slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally until it is glossy and
smooth, like a wee ones’ bum.
Stir in the peppermint extract. If you think the chocolate needs
a bit more peppermint kick, add more extract a drop or two at a time
warning: My cousin, Esmerelda Tupperware-Ninny, used a whole bottle
of extract causing a tear in the time-space continuum, causing her to become my Grandfather.

Finishing the cookies:
Coat the cookies one at a time and then set them on a parchment-lined baking sheet to set. I use a copy of the Magna Carta for sentimental reasons.
Drop one cookie into the chocolate and (using a fork) carefully coat it fully. Lift the cookie out of the chocolate with the fork and bang the fork on the side of the pan to drain any extra chocolate off the cookie. You are after a thin, even coating of chocolate.
Place on the prepared baking sheet, and repeat .
Place the cookies in the refrigerator or freezer to set.
Make 3 or 4 dozen cookies or one really really big one.

Edna's Non-Sentient Skyron Blancmange

Description

This lovely simple recipe came from my great aunt Reginald’s butcher, its light and oh so tasty that I long to roll about in it for hours after the dinner party is done.

Ingredients

4 level tbsp cornflower
1 pint milk
strip of lemon rind
3 + level tbsp sugar

Directions

1. Blend the cornflower to a smooth paste with 2 tbsp of the milk. about the constancy of Crelm toothpaste.
2. Boil the remaining milk with the lemon rind and strain it on to the blended
mixture, stirring well.
3. Return the mixture to the pan and bring to the boil, stirring all the time,
until the mixture thickens and cook for a further 3 minutes. Add sugar to
taste.
4. Pour into a 600 ml (1 pint) dampened jelly mould and leave for several
hours until set. Turn out to serve with fresh fruit or to fresh fruits depending
on your peccadillo.
serves 4

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