Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Hot Honey Lemon Tea 热蜜糖柠檬茶


Girls, do you want to make a quick honey lemon tea to soothe your throat when you have a cool?
孩子,当你患上感冒时,是否想在短时间内弄一杯蜜糖柠檬茶来舒缓你的喉咙呢?
Here are the simple steps to make hot honey lemon tea. Ready in less than 30 minutes.
这里有简单的步骤,在少过30分钟内就可完成任务。


Lemon juice helps us to combat cold and honey soothes the throat. 
柠檬汁帮助我们与感冒抗战,至于蜜糖则可舒缓喉咙疼痛。

Put 1200ml water into a pot. Place on the stove and bring to the boiling point. Drop one tea bag into the boiling water. (Girls, you can use 2-3 tea bags if you really like the strong tea taste. ) Let the tea infuse in the water for 6 to 8 minutes. 
把1200毫升的水放进锅里,在煤气炉上煮至沸腾,在沸水里放一包茶包(孩子,如果你喜爱更重的茶香味,你可用2-3包茶包)让茶水浸泡在水里6至8分钟。
Girls, you can make sweet tea with any kind of tea, but Lipton are mom's usual choice. After steeping tea bag in the hot water for 8 minutes, gently squeeze excess water from tea bag. Then remove the tea bag.
孩子,你可以选择任何牌子的茶包来弄这饮料,然而Lipton 是妈妈平日的选择。当茶包在热水里浸泡8分钟后,轻轻地把多余的水分挤出,然后把茶包拿掉。

Remove tea bag. Girls, be very careful not to overcook. Bitterness in tea is caused by overcooking.
取出茶包。孩子,不要把茶包煮过久,以免苦味渗进水里。
Add rock sugar if the water turned brown. Mom likes to use rock sugar for tea because it is the kind of sweetness where mom enjoyed the most.
当水变成茶褐色时,加入冰糖,妈妈很喜爱用冰糖因为这种甜味和茶配搭恰到好处。
Rock sugar sweetens tea without overwhelming the natural flavour of the tea.
冰糖的甜味不会夺去茶的自然香气。

Add in 70-80 g of rock sugar. Use low fire to boil until sugar dissolved. Increase sugar as needed to your sweetness level. 
加入70-80克的冰糖然后用小火煮至溶解,增加糖的分量如果你想要更甜。
Soak one lemon in a bowl of warm water with baking soda. Baking soda can remove the wax from the skin of the fruits.
把一个柠檬浸在一碗温水里加入泡打粉,泡打粉可以除去水果外皮的蜡质层。
Place the lemon on a cutting board and cut one half into four slices.
把柠檬放在砧板上然后把半粒柠檬切成四片。

Squeeze the juice from the other half into a bowl.
用另半个柠檬在碗里挤出柠檬汁。
Mix the fresh lemon juice into the hot tea.
把新鲜榨取的柠檬汁混合进热茶里。

Girls, before adding honey, wait for the lemon tea to cool down instead of hot.
孩子,如果你要加入蜜糖,请等候你的水稍冷却,别在水沸腾时加入蜜糖。

Stir 60-70ml honey into the mixture.
把60-70毫升的蜜糖在混合物里搅拌。

Pour mixture into drinking glasses and serve.
把蜜糖柠檬茶倒入玻璃杯然后可以饮用。
Garnish with a lemon slice.
用柠檬片点缀。
Drop a slice of lemon in the tea. Girls, this glass of honey lemon tea provides quite excellent sweet and sour taste.
在茶里放入一片柠檬片,孩子,这杯温热的蜜糖柠檬茶带给你很棒的甜酸味。


Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Butter Cookies 曲奇松饼


Girls, these butter cookies are incredibly easy to make. Only require a handful of ingredients that you definitely already have on hand.
孩子,这些曲奇饼非常容易做,只需要一些材料,而这些材料在家里随处可找到。

Let's be honest, who doesn't like a good cookie with a cup of tea.
有谁不想品尝好的曲奇饼伴随一杯好茶呢
The ingredients to make delicious butter cookies are 150g butter, 140g plain flour or superfine flour, 28g corn flour, 18g castard powder, 47g icing sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and a 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. (Mom double the recipe to make more cookies)
制作美味曲奇饼的材料是150克的牛油,140克普通面粉或低筋面粉,28克玉蜀黍粉,18克蛋黄粉,47克糖粉,一茶匙云尼拿香精和半茶匙发粉。(妈妈倍增食谱以做更多的松饼)

 Mom highly recommends using Golden Churn Butter as it makes the cookies more buttery and fragrant.
妈妈极力推荐你们用 Golden Churn 牛油因为这牌子的牛油可以做更奶油味及芳香的曲奇饼。
Cream butter and icing sugar until creamy in a electric mixer. Icing sugar is one of the most important ingredients in baking. Sieve icing sugar twice to get rid of lumps.
把牛油和糖粉放进搅拌器里搅拌至奶白色。糖粉是烘培其中一个重要的材料,糖粉过滤两次以除去块状物。

Add  one teaspoon of vanilla extract to the electric mixer.
在搅拌器里加入1茶匙的云尼拿香精。

In another bowl, sieve plain flour, corn flour, custard powder and baking powder. (Sieve all the dry ingredients twice.) Then add them to the mixture.
另一个大碗,过滤普通或低筋面粉、玉蜀黍粉、蛋黄粉和发粉,(所有干粉过滤两次),然后加入牛油和糖分的混合物里。
Add the dry ingredients to the mixture. Gently fold the dry ingredients using a spatula. Knead well to form a dough. Please do not over mix.
在混合物里加入干粉,以木匙温和地上下搅拌。用手捏成面团,切记不要搅拌过度。
 two completely different cookies
两种不同性质的松饼
Girls, the same recipe can bake up into two completely different cookies. One is crispy (piping type) and the another one is buttery. ( crisscross type)
孩子,你可以用同样的食谱制作两种不同性质的曲奇饼,一种是香脆性(挤袋挤压),另一种是奶油松软型(用叉轻轻按压的交错型)。
Pipe cookie batter onto a baking tray.
把曲奇饼面团挤压在烘培盘上。

Pipe your desired patterns on the tray.
在烘盘上挤压我们喜爱的形状。

Or wrap the dough in the plastic wrap. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator 1 to 2 hours or overnight.
或者用保鲜膜把面团包裹,再放进冰箱休息1-2小时或隔一夜。
After one hour, take the dough out of the refrigerator and shape dough into small balls.
一个小时后,从冰箱拿出面团,再揉成小球状。
Use a fork to make nice crisscross designs.
用叉在松饼上轻轻按压出美丽的交错线条。

These cookies take just minutes of work.They are waiting to be baked.
这些曲奇饼在很短时间就完工,它们正等待烘烤。
These little bites of crispy butter cookies make a perfect dessert. They are slightly sweet and buttery with wonderfully crisp edges.
这些脆口的曲奇饼是完美的甜品,它带着少许的甜味和奶香,伴随香脆的边缘。


Girls, do you like these pretty crisscross look.? These cookies are soft and flavorful. Dad and mom could not stop eating these cookies.
孩子,这些交错型的曲奇饼是不是很漂亮呢?它们不仅松软,也很美味,爸爸和妈妈不能停下口吃这些饼干。

This recipe is brilliant. Every piece of butter cookies melts in the mouth. 
这个食谱很棒,每一块放进口里的曲奇饼都在口里融化。

Girls, definitely try this. You won't regret it. Happy Baking, girls.
孩子,尝试做这食谱,你绝不会后悔,希望你们有快乐的烘培时光。

Monday, May 30, 2016

Horlicks Doggies Cookies 好力克狗狗饼干

These horlicks doggies cookies will be great as gifts. They are presentable to the eyes. Girls,are you excited to make cute cookies like these?
这些好力克狗狗饼干是送礼佳选,它们赏心悦目,孩子,你是否迫不及待要做这些超可爱的饼干呢?
Girls, cake flour or superfine flour is used because they have lower gluten level than plain flour. This will make cookies or cakes more lighter.
孩子,我们采用糕粉或低筋面粉,不用普通面粉因低筋面粉的面筋低,这样做起来的蛋糕和饼干比较松软。

The cookies are crispy type and better use good butter like SCS or Golden Churn. The key of making good cookies is using high grade butter like scs.
这饼干是香脆型的,建议你们用好的牛油如 SCS 或者 Golden Churn。做一个品质好的饼干秘诀就是用高素质的牛油如SCS.

The ingredients are 110g butter, 110g cake flour or superfine flour, 20g milk powder, 40g horlicks powder(original flavour), 20g corn flour, 13g caster sugar and 1/2 egg yolk.
材料是110克牛油,110克糕粉或低筋面粉,20克牛奶粉,40克好立克粉(原味),20克玉蜀黍粉,13克白糖及1/2 蛋黄。

Girls, this recipe can makes about 36 cookies. If you want to make more, you can simply double the ingredients. Both of you really have to bookmark this recipe.
孩子,这食谱大约可以制作36个饼干,你可以把食谱的分量增倍如果你想做更多的饼干,你们要记下这食谱啊!

You can replaced horlicks with Milo or Ovaltine.
你可以以美禄或阿华田来取代好力克。
To make by hand, you can use a spatula to beat the butter and caster sugar till the mixture becomes fluffy. 
你可以用木匙搅拌牛油和白糖至松软。
Pour approximately half of the egg yolk into the container.
在容器内倒入半个蛋黄。
Sieve the Horlicks powder. Then add in horlicks and fold.
过滤好力克粉,然后加入好力克粉再上下翻转均勻。
Sieve superfine flour, corn flour and milk powder.
过滤低筋面粉,玉蜀黍粉和奶粉。

Add in superfine flour, cornflour and milk powder and beat for about one minute to form dough.
加入低筋面粉,玉蜀黍粉和奶粉然后搅拌一分钟直到混合成球状。
Decorate the doggie cookies using chocolate chip as the nose and chocolate rice as the eyes.
用巧克力米做狗狗的眼睛,巧克力粒做狗狗的鼻子。

Decorate the doggie cookies using cocoa crunch as the ears.
用巧克力脆片装饰狗狗的耳朵。
Gently roll each portion of dough between your hands into a ball.
轻轻地用手把面团揉成球状。

Insert two pieces of cocoa crunch to form the 'ears'.
用两片巧克力脆片装饰狗狗的耳朵。
Chocolate chip in the centre for the 'nose'.
把巧克力粒放在中间当狗狗的鼻子。

Chocolate rice for the "eyes".
巧克力米装饰狗狗的眼睛。

Leave to cool before storing in an airtight container.
在还没放进密封容器前先让饼干冷却。

They are ready to be eaten up. Mom loves the crunchiness of this cookie.
这些饼干正准备被我们吃进口里,妈妈很喜欢这种饼干的香脆感。
Mom managed to bake the cookies successfully few days ago. It came out so good. We could not stop eating. Girls, it is great to enjoy these cookies with a cup of Chinese tea. 
几天前妈妈成功烘制这些饼干,它的味道极好,我们无法停下口,孩子,能够一面品尝饼干,一面喝着香醇的中国茶,那感觉真是美好。
Girls, it would be enjoyable to make these doggies cookies with children. Give this recipe a try if you are looking for holiday baking projects to do with them.
孩子,和孩童一同制作这些狗狗饼干绝对是一种乐趣,不妨在假期时尝试和孩童一同制作这食谱吧!