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Below you'll find some of the cake recipes that members of the SCD mailing
list have mailed to one another.... If there is any contradiction between
instructions in Breaking the Vicious Cycle and any recipe in these archives,
kindly adhere to what the book states.
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Cakes pies
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Greek Orange-Yogurt Cake w/ Honey Syrup
I stumbled across this interesting recipe by someone named Aphrodite
Polemis - it looks so close to SCD that I'm tempted to adapt it.
[SCD Webmasters' note: Ms. Polemis' devoted son emailed us to
point out that the title of his 82-year old mother's book is "From
A Traditional Greek Kitchen" (Book Publishing Company,
1992; ISBN 0913990930)]
SCD Aphrodite Polemis:
Cake:
- 3 1/2 cups almond flour
- 3 eggs (separated and whip the whites)
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups honey
- 1 cup SCD yoghurt
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped blanched almonds
- 4 tbs. frozen orange juice concentrate
- 1 tbs. fresh orange zest
- 1/2 cup butter
Syrup:
- 1 1/2 cups honey
- 1 1/2 cups orange juice
Preheat oven to 350
degrees F (180 C). Sift together almond flour and baking soda.
Beat egg yolks well, then stir in honey, yoghurt, almonds, OJ
concentrate, melted butter, and orange zest. Combine mixture with
dry ingredients, then gently fold in whipped egg whites. Pour
batter into a well-greased 9" x 13" baking pan. Bake
until top is golden (about 45 min).
To make the syrup, bring 1 1/2 cups honey and 1 1/2 cups OJ to
a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 min. Remove
and discard any froth that may form on the syrup's surface. Pour
syrup over finished cake.
Poke cake gently with a toothpick to help cake absorb syrup. Serve
when cake is cool and syrup has been absorbed. For a lively presentation,
encircle cake with orange slice halves and sprigs of fresh mint.
Sprinkle the cake's top with toasted almond slivers.
Deanna
Update from Deanna,
September 2004: 1.5 cups of honey in BOTH cake AND syrup is a
LOT of honey!!! I'm sure this cake must be WAY too sweet (not
to mention expensive, given skyrocketing honey prices lately).
I might try cutting the honey in HALF!
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This
is a variation of the recipe listed above.
Ingredients
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Melted
butter, to grease
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2
oranges
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3
eggs
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1/2
cup Honey
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200g
almond flour
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1
tsp baking soda
Method
1.
Preheat oven to 170°C (or gas mark 3). Brush a round 22cm
(base measurement) springform pan with melted butter to lightly
grease. Line base with non-stick baking paper.
2. Place the oranges in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
Bring to the boil over medium heat. Cook for 15 minutes or
until tender. Drain. Return to pan and cover with cold water.
Bring to the boil and cook for 15 minutes (this will reduce
the bitterness of the peel). Refresh under cold water. Drain.
Coarsely chop oranges. Remove and discard any seeds.
3. Place the orange in the bowl of a food processor and process
until smooth.
4. Use an electric beater to whisk the eggs and honey in a
bowl. Add the orange, almond flour and baking soda and gently
fold until just combined. Pour into prepared pan.
5. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre
comes out clean. Set aside for 15 minutes to cool.
6. Turn cake onto a serving plate, and cut into wedges to
serve.
NB.
this is also really yummy served with SCD yogurt unflavoured
and unsweetened
- Catherine
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This comes from
the Passover chapter in "Cooking Kosher the Natural Way"
by Jane Kinderlehrer (Senior Editor, "Prevention"
magazine):
- 1 cup grated raw
carrot
- 3/4 cup coconut
crumbs (I assume she means unsweetened flaked coconut)
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1 cup ground raw
cashews
In a large bowl,
blend the carrot, coconut, honey, and vanilla. In a separate
bowl, beat the egg yolks to a creamy consistency. Fold the
egg yolks into the carrot-coconut mixture and let it stand
in the refrigerator for 1 hour, or until it has soaked up
the moisture. Add the ground cashews and blend.
In another bowl,
beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold the egg whites into
the carrot-coconut mixture. Make two 9-inch layers or pour
the mixture into a bundt pan. Bake in a preheated 400 degree
F (220 C) oven for 10 minutes, then reduce the temperature
to 350 degrees F (180 C) and bake for an additional 20 to
30 minutes or until the cake shows signs of leaving the sides
of the pan. Cool on a wire rack. Serves 4 to 6.
Deanna
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Carrot Cake (II)
Just wanted to pass along this recipe I came across which fits
the SCD perfectly! It is a very moist and delicious carrot cake
with a hint of
orange. We found it to be very much like a 'real cake'. I was
so suprised that the recipe did not call for flour.
- 6 eggs, seperated
- 1 cup honey
- 1 1/2 cups
carrots, cooked and pureed
- 1 Tlbs grated orange
rind
- 1 Tlbs frozen orange
juice
- 3 cups almond flour
Preheat over to 325 F (165 C)
Beat the egg yolks and honey together. Mix in carrot puree,
orange rind, orange juice and almond flour. Beat the egg whites
until stiff and fold in.
Spoon into a greased loose bottomed 9 inch springform pan. Bake
for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre
of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes,
then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. This cake
looks great , tastes wonderful alone but it is
also very nice served with the Honey Cream Whipped Topping (Page
110 , Breaking the Vicious Cycle).
The carrots should be cooked, pureed then measured. If I have
a bit left over I just use it in soup. Yes I have made the carrot
cake in the book but
like you found it somewhat soggy. The recipe for the carrot
cake with the pureed carrots in not soggy at all, like I said
it is more like a cake texture, moist, and can actually be sliced
and served, which is most difficult with the carrot cake in
the book. The whole family really enjoyed it.
Barb Partridge
Allan
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Subject: Re: carrot cake > cupcakes
Howdie all,
For the carrot cake, I've never made a loaf myself -- I've made
it into cupcakes. The recipe makes about 16. The baking time is
somewhere between 15-25 minutes. I keep all the major ingredients
pretty much the same, however, I usually put extra walnuts and
raisins in, reduce the honey to about 1/2 cup and usually put
a 1/8-1/4 teaspoon cloves in. As for flour, I use walnut meal.
They do come out rather moist, but not mushy -- probably because
of the cupcake size.
The big problem with these are that they are not very pretty --
usually they sink in the middle, and they are rather crumbly,
but I like the taste and I'm not too picky when I'm cooking for
myself.
The truth is, I never tried the loaf because I had a bad feeling
it wouldn't cook right, and cupcakes are more portable.
Hope this helps.
bill
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- 1/2 cup soft butter
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1 egg
- 1 cup almonds or
hazel nuts, chopped
- 1 cup raisins,
chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped
dates (if desired)
- 1 1/2 cup homemade
apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon SCD-legal
vanilla
- 2 cups almond flour
- 2 full teaspoons
baking soda (natron)
1) In food processor, coarsely chop almonds/nuts, raisins and
dates (if desired).
Place in separate bowl.
2) Now cream butter and honey in food processor, add egg and
vanilla.
3) Mix all other ingredients together and add to the butter
mix.
4) Turn into a well buttered cake pan (sprinkled with almond
flour).
5) Bake in slow oven at app. 315 F (170 C) for 1 hour until
center comes out clean with fork.
( Made this one for my tall skinny SCD webmaster, and he was
speechless...)
Linda
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Linda's Banana-Carrot Cake
- 1/2 cup soft butter
- 1/2 cup honey
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups almond flour
- 2 carrots (grated
coarsely)
- 2 bananas (coarsely
mashed)
- 10 dried, sulphur-free
apricots (coarsely cut)
- 3/4 cup almonds
(grated coarsely)
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 2 teaspoons baking
soda
- 1 teaspoon SCD-legal
vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
1) In food processor, coarsely chop nuts, carrots, raisins and
apricots.
Place each in separate bowl.
Now cream butter and honey in food processer, add agg and vanilla.
2) Mix dry ingredients together with 1/4 cup grated almonds,
and 1/2 of the chopped apricots.
3) In separate bowl, blend bananas, carrots, raisins.
4) Alternatively, add nr. 2 & 3 to mixture nr. 1
5) Turn into a well buttered cake pan (sprinkled with almond
flour).
6) Sprinkle top of cake batter with rest of almonds and apricots.
Bake in slow oven at app. 315 F (170 C) for 1 hour until center
comes out clean with fork.
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Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
Re:
Nancy's request for dessert recipes
These recipes might not be appropriate for everyone. I send them
with lots of love.
- 1 can unsweetened
pineapple rings
- 1/2 cup honey
- BTVC recipe for
banana cake (pg. 103 in BTVC)
Into an oven-proof 9 inch skillet drain off the juice from the
pineapples. Add the honey and boil down till the consistency
of maple syrup. Place the well drained pineapple rings over
the bottom(you'll probably have some left over). You can chop
the remaining to fill in if you like. Pour the banana cake batter
over it and bake in a pre-heated 350 F (180 C) oven for about
20 to 30 mins. Top should spring back when touched. Immediately
cover skillet with a plate large enough to accomodate cake and
flip over. This can be tricky. Sometimes the rings stay in the
pan. I just carefully persuade them out and reapply to the top
of the cake. It doesn't have to look perfect. My husband loves
this with a dollop of "sour cream"(1/2 & 1/2 made
into yogurt) and a drizzle on honey.
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Christmas "Plum Pudding (jazzed
up carrot cake)
One well greased 1 piece decorative cake pan(has to be able
to placed in a water bath). I have a fluted one from Corning
that looks like a real English plum pudding mold, but any one
piece bundt pan will do.
One
carrot cake recipe with the addition of 1/2 cup unsweetened chopped
dates,
1/2
cup chopped hazelnuts(filberts)
1 tsp. bourbon
Pour thick
batter into cake pan, place in another pan with about 1 inch
of hot water in it. The water should come about 1/3 way up sides
of cake pan.
Bake
in 350 F (180 C) for about 60 mins. or untill knife comes out
almost clean. Add more hot water if needed. This can take longer
than 60 mins. so watch.
When
cool, unmold and pipe Honey Frosting (pg.110) on top and around
base. I found that the honey never really gets to firm ball stage,
so I just watched the candy thermometer till it registered hardball/crack
stage.I also used 1 tsp. of bourbon instead of vanilla in the
recipe. This stuff is really sticky, but it pipes well and I had
lots leftover.
My husband
went crazy over it..
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No Bake Cherry Cheesecake
I have a delicious
recipe for my favorite dessert - cherry cheesecake! I'm allergic
to eggs, so I made up my own recipe without them. Enjoy!
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For the crust, using
a food processor grind about 3 cups of nuts (I use pecans) extra
fine and combine with a generous amount of date sugar. ( I use
one to two cups) Press mixture into a glass pie plate and cook
at 350 degrees F (180 C) for about 10 minutes.
While the crust is
cooling, in a blender, mix one quart of homemade yogurt, vanilla
from one vanilla bean (use kitchen scissors to cut open the
bean and then scrape out the vanilla on the inside), the juice
of one lemon, 1 package of Knox gelatin, and sweeten with honey
to taste.
Let the crust cool
completely, then pour the yogurt mixture into the crust and
let the pie set in the fridge for about three hours. Thaw and
drain two bags of cherries, arranging them on the top of the
pie. Chill and enjoy.
Tip: You may want
to try pressing the cherries into the top of the pie before
it sets all the way. The first time I made this recipe, when
I tried to cut the pie the cherries rolled right off the top!
I hope you like it!
Cathy Yokota (U.C.)
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Subject:
SCD
Cheesecake advice
Diane,
Don't expect the cheesecake recipe to taste like what you may
have been used to before. One thing for sure (depends on your
oven) is to reduce the oven by 25-50 degrees and let it cook longer,
in order for the middle part to cook evenly.
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I
basically double the recipe and place it into a 9 inch square
pan.
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I
use a standard size blender and place the eggs in first, the
honey and yogurt, sometimes use vanilla, never use lemon rind
(inconvenient), and then fill to the top with DCCC.
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I
blend it, stop and then pat the top down with a spoon to push
it to the middle, and then blend again.
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I
cook it, let it cool, cover and place in fridge.
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I
cut it into 12 pieces as required (2 rows x 6 columns).
Thanks...
Dan.
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SCD Cheesecake advice
Here's how to
make the SCD Cheesecake better:
1. Use a slightly larger
proportion of yogurt to DCCC
2. blend for a long time
3. bake at a little lower temperature (i.e. 300 degrees) or
bake for a little shorter time (i.e. 25 minutes) or both.
Makes for a very creamy
cheesecake.
Sanford
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Subject:
Re:
Raisins
and Pear Cheesecake advice
>Have tried the
cheesecake recipe after looking for months for DCCC and finally
finding it. It was awful! I did it exactly by the book but found
it gritty and tasteless. Any suggestions?
Re the cheesecake recipe,
I make at least one a week and it's wonderful, but I did alter
it slightly, after experimenting with several different methods:
Instead of 2 cups DCCC,
use slightly more (makes it more creamy) about 1/4 cup to 1/2
cup more total. Make sure you are packing it down in the measuring
cup.
Bake in a glass pie
plate. The cheesecake consistency doesn't do well if baked thicker.
Instead of 2 teaspoons
vanilla extract, reduce
to 1 teaspoon SCD legal vanilla extract
Add 1 teaspoon almond extract
Add 1 teaspoon lemon extract (if not using the grated skin of
a lemon)
I use the lemon extract,
because it's faster and easier to digest.
Really delicious.
Good luck,
Prateeksha
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I
follow the pumpkin pie recipe in BVC using butternut squash.
For those of you who don't have the book.
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- 4 T soft butter
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2 cup pecans
- 2 T homemade french
cream or yogurt
- 1 T vanilla
- rind of one lemon
Cream butter with eggs and honey. Mix in cream, lemon rind and
vanilla. Mix in pecans (I chop 1.5 cups of them, leaving the
rest whole). Pour into a pie plate and bake for 35-45 minutes
at 350 F (180 C).
David Emerson
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Regular version |
"SCD
conversion" |
12 pcs . chopped
dates |
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12
pcs. rolled saltines |
use 1 cup nut
flour |
1 cup coarsely
chopped pecans |
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1
cup sugar |
1/2 cup honey |
1/2
tsp baking powder |
baking soda &
pinch of salt |
1 tsp almond extract |
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3
egg whites |
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1/4 cup coconut
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DIRECTIONS:
Mix all the dry ingredients, set aside, beat egg whites until
stiff, drizzle into egg whites, the honey and almond extract.
Fold this mixture into dry mixture put into greased pie plate
and bake in 350 degree oven for 20 to 25 min. or until golden
brown, if you like coconut add 1/4 cup to the recipe.
A wonderful recipe for the holidays.
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- 1 1/3 cup walnut
flour
- 2 eggs
- 4 T melted butter
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1 T SCD legal vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
Mix all ingredients. Pour into greased baking dish or pie plate.
I use 6 custard cups so I can grab them to take to school with
me. Cupcakes would also work well. Bake at 350 F (180 C) for
40 minutes. Don't overbake - it gets dry and burnt.
David Emerson
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Pear Torte
Crust:
- 1&1/2 inch
slice of cheese bread finely minced
- zest of 1/2 a lemon
- 1/4 tsp freshly
gound cloves
mix and press into a buttered two piece quiche pan (ten inch)
Fill:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup softened
butter
- 3 tbs. bourbon
or light rum
- dash of pure almond
flavoring
- 1 cup almond flour
- 6 to 8 very ripe
pears
- 1 egg
Mix first 4 ingredients
thoroughly and spread over crust. Peel pears, cut in half
lengthwise, core and place cut side down on fill. I start
at the edges with the large end out and work it into the center
in concentric circles. You can chop any remaining pieces and
fill in blank spots if you like. Put on a cookie sheet and
bake at 350 F (180 C) for approx. 40 to 45 mins.or untill
the fill has risen up around the pears and has turned dark
golden and is firm in the center. Let cool and ease out of
pan. Sometimes I can't get it off the bottom piece. C'est
la vie. A dollop of yogurt and a drizzle honey could be used
to top it off.
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What works for me
is to grind the nut flour into a nut butter add tablespoon or
so of butter and salt to taste. Mix together.
Butter the bottom of a pie plate, push the nut mixture with
your hands onto the pie plate.
Add the pie mixture on top of the crust.
Then sprinkle some of the nut mixture on top. Of course it doesn't
stay together like a flour crust, when working with it, but
I find I like the taste and texture much better.
Good Luck, Lois
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One of my neighbors
has an apple tree and she has been sharing her apples, A friend
created this "cake" with regular ingredients and
then I converted it to scd ingrediants my measurement are
not exact (sorry) but with this cake it really doesn't matter
Apple filling:
- 10-12 apples
- 1-2 tsp cinnamon,
nutmeg, ginger,
- water to cover
apples
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup butter
Cake batter;
- 1-1/4 cup almond
flour
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon,
nutmeg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3 tbl soften butter
- 2-3 tbl honey
Preheat oven to
350 F (180 C)
Peal and slice apples, place in sauce pan, add water till
it cover apples a quater of the way. Cook over medium high
heat untill apples are very soft and mushy. With a laddle
or a large spoon drain excess liquid into a bowl and set aside
to use in cake batter.
Add cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, honey and butter; stir and simmer
while preparing cake mixture
In a bowl take
a cup of the nut flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda; blend
with your hands until all lumps are gone add butter, honey
and the reserved juice from the apples stir. Batter should
be smooth and pourable if it seems to thin add the extra qaurter
cup of almond flour.
Pour the apple
mixture in a greased baking dish, stir in cake mixture into
the apples, Bake at 350 F (180 C) for 45min. to an hour.
A knife or toothpick should come out cean yet this is not
a firm cake.
Cake will be soft and juicy.
It is very yummy.
To make applesauce
cake, I modified the banana cake recipe on page 103 by replacing
the bananas with 1 cup of homemade applesauce, and adding
one tsp of cinnamon and 1/4 cup of raisins.
cheers,
Alison
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Linda's Yummy Scrumtious Apple Pie
"a classic French Apple pie"
Dough:
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400-500
gr almond flour
- 100 grams butter
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon water
- approximately
1/4 - 1/3 cup honey
- pinch of salt
Blend dough in a bowl and add more almond flour if necessary
until the dough is dry enough and not sticky to work with.
Place dough in fridge or freezer for approx. 15 min - 1/2
hour.
Filling:
- 7 medium sized
organic apples
- 1/3 cup of honey
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 150 grams walnuts
- 150 grams almonds
- 150 grams raisins
- juice from 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon water
- SCD legal vanilla
Peel and core apples. Cut in slices.
Set all ingredients in a heavy duty pot and cook app. 10 minutes
until apples are a bit soft and filling is not wet.
Topping:
- 1- 2 finely sliced
apples
- 50 grams chopped
walnuts
- 50 grams blanched
and finely sliced almonds
- thin coconut slices
- cinnamon
Pat dough into round pie form.
Add filling.
Decorate filling with the uncooked apples on top to form a round
design.
Bake in slow oven 150-160 degrees Celsius (305-320 F) for approx.
30-40 minutes.
Keep your eye on oven as the dough can burn.
The edges can be covered with aluminum foil to avoid this.
Approximately 5 minutes before the pie is ready, decorate with
walnuts, almonds, coconut slices and cinammon. Return to oven
until nicely brown.
A real scoop -- the only known remedy to take a busy webmaster
away from his computer screen...! :-)
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midasgold asked:
>But are cups, teaspoons and tablespoons the same in Denmark
as they are here? Answer: Yes!!!
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- 2 bananas, cut
into slices
- 4 apples, cut into
thin slices
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup pumpkin
seeds
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 lemon, squeezed
into juice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp SCD legal
vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
Mix it all well, (if possible in a blender), spread it out on
a piece of baking paper in a baking pan, bake in oven at 180
C (350 F) in about 25-30 minutes.
Linda
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Flourless Lemon-Almond Cake
I've made this one a number of times, i replace the sugar with
4 tbsp of honey (honey is twice as sweet as sugar) Normies can't
believe there is no flour in it.
Enjoy
This Majorcan specialty is usually topped with homemade almond
ice cream or ice milk, but purchased almond ice cream can also
be used.
- 1 1/3 cups
blanched slivered almonds
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 5 teaspoons packed
grated lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon ground
cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 375F. Butter and flour 9-inch-diameter cake
pan with 1 1/2-inch-high sides. Line bottom of pan with waxed
paper. Finely grind almonds with 2 tablespoons honey in processor.
Combine yolks, 2 tablespoons honey, lemon peel, cinnamon and
salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat until thick
and smooth, about 2 minutes. Stir in almond mixture. Using clean
beaters, beat egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks form.
Gradually add remaining honey, beating until stiff but not dry.
Fold large spoonful of whites into almond mixture. Gently fold
in remaining whites.
Transfer batter to pan. Bake until tester inserted into center
comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool in pan on rack. Turn
out onto platter. Remove waxed paper.
Serves 8.
Bon Appetit
This recipe has been sent to you from Epicurious
Food
(http://food.epicurious.com).
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Lemon Cake w/ Lemon Filling
- I made this one
a couple days ago and served it to very appreciative non-SCD
company. While there is almond flour in the ingredients, I think
the name "nut cake" is a misnomer, especially when
our fine, light Hughson flour is used (the typical Passover
almond flour has the dark skins ground in and is somewhat courser)
- mine came out a very light (in both color and texture), fluffy
lemon cake!
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Here's a modified recipe (from "The Kosher for Pesach
Cookbook", a project of the Yeshivat Aish HaTorah Women's
Organization):
LEMON CAKE w/
LEMON FILLING (SCD!)
Cake:
- 8 eggs, separated
- 1/2 lb Hughson
almond flour
- juice of 1 lemon
(I used a big one!)
- 1/2 + 1/8 cup honey
(on the premise of a 1:2 honey:sugar ratio - heck, make it 3/4
cup as a little more sweetness wouldn't hurt this cake)
Beat egg yolks
until thick. Add almond flour, lemon juice, and honey, and
beat well. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.
Gently fold egg-yolk mixture into egg whites until just combined.
Pour into two ungreased 9-in round layer pans and bake at
350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes.
Filling:
- 4 well-beaten eggs
(I doubled the eggs to compensate for omitting the potato flour
from the original recipe)
- 1/4 + 1/8 (a little
over 1/3, even up to 1/2 should be OK) cup honey juice of 1
lemon (another big one)
- 1 tsp of fat (I
omitted this, but vegetable oil should have been OK)
- 1 cup water (possibly
too much, as the filling came out thickened but still rather
runny - try cutting the water down to 3/4 or even 1/2 cup)
Beat eggs well.
Add the honey, lemon juice, oil (optional) and water. If you
have a thick-bottomed saucepan and are good with a whisk,
don't bother messing around with a double boiler (who has
time for such nonsense?): just heat up the mixture and keep
whisking it like mad to keep it from curdling, until it thickens.
I did this and the mixture was smooth as silk. Chill before
spreading between layers and over the top and sides. Garnish
top with a twisted lemon slice (slivered almonds and a mint
sprig would be pretty, too).
The only thing
I might add to this recipe would be a dash of salt to both
the cake and the filling, to round out the flavor a bit. Some
finely-grated lemon rind might also be a nice touch, either
in the cake, the filling, or both.
A definite candidate
for the "I can't believe it's SCD" category!
Deanna
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Okay,
here are some various lemon pie options. The first two I have
tried - they are not incredible, but if lemon pie is what you
crave they are definitely good. The third I have not tried,
but it looks quite good also.
- 4 egg whites
- 3/4 C honey
- 1 C lemon juice
- 2 packets gelatin
dissolved in 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 T butter
Mix thoroughly
and cook over LOW heat or in a double boiler until it starts
to thicken. Pour into a pie plate and chill until set.
Make meringue with
egg whites, 1 T vanilla and 1/4 C honey.
Whip until stiff.
(I actually baked
the meringue in the pie plate first - like a crust - because
the filling doesn't need to go in the oven. I then let it
cool and poured the filling on top of it. When the filling
cooled it actually ended up on the bottom as the meringue
sort of floated up to the top. It was a one time experiment,
but it was good. If you try something different I'd be interested
in the results.)
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- 1 T gelatin dissolved
in 1/4 C water
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 C honey
- rind of 2 lemons
(grated)
- 1/2 C lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
Whisk yolks until
pale yellow, and mix in other ingredients. Cook over low heat
or in top of a double boiler until thickened. Cool.
Beat 4 egg whites
until stiff and fold into yolk mixture. Pour into a pie plate
and chill until set.
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Haven't
tried this one yet. It's from "The Kosher for Pesach Cookbook",
a project of the Yeshivat Aish HaTorah Women's Organization.
- 9 eggs (what would
Passover - or SCD - be without eggs?)
- 1 T orange juice
- 2 1/2 cups almond
flour
- 1 1/2 cups mashed
(how 'bout pureed?) cooked carrots
- 3/4 + 1/8, or up
to 1 cup honey
- 1 T wine
Separate eggs.
Beat yolks. Gradually add honey to yolks. Beat until thick.
Stir in carrots, orange juice, wine and almond flour. Fold
in stiffly-beaten egg whites. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees
C) for 50 minutes.
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Fruit-Filled Meringue Cups
Another one from
"The Kosher for Pesach Cookbook", a project of the
Yeshivat Aish HaTorah Women's Organization:
- 3 egg whites (use
the whites from the macaroon recipe!)
- pinch salt
- 1/3 + cup honey
- 1 T lemon juice
- 6 canned peach
or pear halves (no sugars!) (or poach your own fresh ones)
- 6 tsp (SCD) raspberry
preserves
- 1/4 cup walnuts,
chopped
Beat eggs whites
with salt till fluffy. Add honey slowly. Add lemon juice with
last of honey and beat until smooth. Place well-drained peach
or pear halves on an ungreased baking sheet, hollow side up.
Place teaspoon of preserves in each hollow. Cover each half
with meringue. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 275 degrees F (130
degrees C) for 1 hour or until lightly browned. Serve hot
or cold.
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Another one from
"The Kosher for Pesach Cookbook", a project of the
Yeshivat Aish HaTorah Women's Organization:
- 2 large apples
- 1/2 cups walnuts
(or other nuts)
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 T each lemon
juice and lemon rind
- 5 eggs (separated)
Pare, core and
slice apples. Line bottom of greased pan with apples. Beat
yolks until light and frothy. Add honey, nuts, and salt. Add
lemon juice and rind. Fold in egg whites. Pour over apples.
Bake for 30 minutes in hot oven (I assume at least 350 degrees
F (175 degrees C) ). Can also be made without separating eggs.
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