GENOISE - SPONGE CAKE

INGREDIENTS
• 5 eggs, separated
• 125g sugar (90+35)
• 125g flour

PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 180°C (Fan forced)
Grease and line the cake pan with baking paper. 
Beat egg whites to soft peaks and reserve in the fridge. Then beat sugar and egg yolks until they turn into a light fluffy foam. Using a maryse incorporate 1/3 of the egg white. Then stir in half the flour. Repeat. Finish with the last third of egg whites. Pour the preparation into the cake pan immediately. 

Bake for 25 minutes at 180°C. Don't remove it from the oven yet. Create a small opening gap to slowly release the heat. take the cake out when warm or cool.

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CRÈME BRULÉE

 

INGREDIENTS for 12 small
•5 egg yolks
• 125gr sugar
• 500ml fresh cream
• 1 vanilla pod
•brown sugar to “brulé”

PREPARATION
Turn your oven on at 140°C.
In a saucepan heat up cream and vanilla and bring it to the boil.
In a bowl, cream egg yolks and sugar and stir in cream.
Slowly pour cream into ramekins. Bain-marie bake for 1hour. Let cool and refrigerate.
At the serving time caramelise your cream by sprinkling brown sugar on it and passing it under your oven grill.
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ORANGE QUATRE-QUART

INGREDIENTS

• 3 eggs (separated)

• 250 g sugar (+100 g for syrup)

• 250 g butter

• 250 g flour

• 1 orange, rind grated & juiced

PREPARATION

Grease cake form and preheat oven on 180/200°C

Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites into firm picks. Reserve egg whites in the fridge.

Now, beat sugar and butter until it turns into a light foamy consistency. Add egg yolks one by one and keep beating until it turns light and foamy again. Stop mixer.

Using a wooden spoon, stir in flour. Finish by adding grated orange rind.

Add ¼ of the egg whites. Once incorporated, add all the rest.

Pour mixture into cake form and bake for 40 to 45 min.

Orange syrup (optional)

In a small sauce pan, heat up orange juice and sugar. Stir to dissolve sugar.

When "Quatre-Quart" is still warm, damp it with syrup. Serve cold.

It's a great cake for breakfast... it's even better at tea time.

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HOMEMADE ORANGE JELLY

INGREDIENTS for 8 serves   

• 250 ml water

• 250 g sugar

• 4 medium oranges

• ½ lemon, juiced

• 100 ml water

• 2 gelatin leaves

PREPARATION

Soak gelatin leaves in cool water and let them soften for 10 minutes.

Slice oranges in half and juice them carefully. Keep orange cavities as your jelly molds.

Boil 250 ml of water in a pan. Add the sugar. Stir to dissolve. Add soften gelatin leaves, 300 ml of orange juice and lemon juice.

Place the orange halves, upright, on a tray. Fill the orange cavities with jelly preparation and refrigerate for 3 hours or until set. Once set serve it in halves or cut into smaller segments.

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CHICKEN LIVER AND PORT WINE PATE

INGREDIENTS 
• 1 tablespoon oil 
• 2 shallots, chopped
• 1 garlic clove
• 100gr bacon, chopped) 
• 300gr chicken liver 
• 3 tbsp. port 
• 100 ml cream 
• Salt & pepper, to taste 
• 50gr butter, room temp
• 50gr butter, clarified

PREPARATION
On medium heat sauté shallots and bacon until the shallots of softened (not brown).

Add liver and cook until it just changes color. Pour in the Port; allow it to cook before adding the cream. Add salt, pepper and parsley and cook until liver is almost cooked through, it should only take a couple of minutes. Leave it to cool.
Place mixture into a food processor with the butter, process until smooth.
Transfer to a serving bowl, flattening the pate out before you cover with clarified butter (or Clingfilm) to stop discoloring.
Keep in the fridge for 24 hours before serving for flavors to develop. This pâté keeps up in the fridge for about a week.

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