Pepper Fennel Beef Soup

Ingredients:

1. 10 grams of whit pepper powder
2. 10 grams of sliced Fenny
3. 500 grams of beef chunks
4. 1 clove of garlic (sliced)
5. 2 tea spoon (t) of soy sauce
6. 2 table spoon (T) of cooking oil
7. 1 t of salt 
8. 3 cups of  water

 
Method:

1. warm up cooking oil in a fry pan for few seconds before stir-frying garlic and fenny.
2. stir-fry garlic and fenny until the aroma comes out, then  put beef chunk in and stir-frying for few seconds.
3. add stir-fried ingredient and 3 cups of water into a saucepan, boil it with the lid on and simmer it for 2 hours.
4. add soy sauce, pepper and salt before serving.

Function:
Provide warmth in the winter, specially good for people who have cold limbs.

How to Cook Rice Efficiently?

Ingredients:

1. 1 t of cooking oil
2. 1/2 of salt
3. 1 cup of water
4. 1 cup of rice

Method:

1. Put all ingredients all together into a saucepan.
2. Boil and turn the cooker off.
3. Leave boiled rice to be cooked naturally from the steam inside the saucepan for 20 mins.

Tips:

If you like softer rice, adding extra half cup of water is allowed.

Dark Brown Sugar Tea

Traditional way:
Ingredient:
3 cups of water,
1+ 1/2 soupspoons of dark brown sugar,
3 slices of old ginger root.

Method:
to mix all ingredients all together and boil them. After boiling, simmer it for 5 min..
When water becomes 2 cups, then it can be served.

Modern way:
Ingredient:
1 cup of water,
1/2 teaspoons Ginger powder,
2 teaspoon dark brown sugar.

Method:
Mix them together in a cup, then serve it.

Walnut Porridge for 2

for 2 persons

 

Ingredients:

 

• Walnuts: 50g.
• Rice:200g

• Water: 4cups
• 4 tablespoon of sugar

Method:

 

1. Boil rice, walnut and rice all together in a saucepan with a lid.
2. Boiled and leave the saucepan with a lid to 20 mins.
3. Served with spreading sugar on the top.

Homemade sour plum soup

                                                    Homemade Sour Plum Soup

During the Qi Dynasty, there was an old man selling sour plum soup outside the Harder’s door. He often used two small copper bowls to make a sound.  The sound attracted people's attention,  and selling while walking. The sour plum soup was a good summer beverage. In the Qing Dynasty, it was improved by the Royal Kitchen to be one of the popular Loyal beverages.  It was named specially as "Shigongmeijian". This had medicinal functions, such as cleaning heat, cooling, calming mind, alleviating heart pain, dispersing phlegm, stopping coughing, avoiding plagues, creating liquid and stopping thirsty. It was specially named "Qi Palace precious loyalty-made Plum Soup”. Because of its special functions, it became popular in public. Later on, it was later introduced to the folk; therefore, it became very popular. It could be seem everywhere, such as small venders in the streets or at the doorways of dried food stores.

Ingredients:

Ume (Chinese dried black plums) 25 g

Hawthorn berries 15g

Licorice slices 5 g

Water 2 liters

Crystal sugar 100g

 

                                                                    自制酸梅汤 
 以前在哈德门外有老人，常常手拿冰盏(两个小铜碗)弄出声响吸引人们注意，边走边卖。酸梅汤古来即为上好的夏日饮品。清代经御膳房改进成为宫廷御用饮品，所谓“士贡梅煎”即是。因其除热送凉，安心痛，祛痰止咳，辟疫，生津止渴的功效，被誉为“清宫异宝御制乌梅汤”，后来传入民间，于是大街小巷，干鲜果铺的门口，随处可见卖酸梅汤的摊贩。

用料   乌梅  25克  山楂  15克  甘草  5克 
        水  2升               冰糖  100克

每日餐廚

菜單：

早餐：

午餐：

培根和奶酪的土豆:

http://britishtraditionalrecipe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/2.html

下午茶時間：

• 熱飲：
• 冷飲：
• 餅乾：
• 蛋糕：

主餐：

咸牛肉哈希:
http://britishtraditionalrecipe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/2_30.html

特別醬：

小吃：

• 果凍：蛋撻：
• 煎餅：
• 冰淇淋：
• 酸奶：