Dan Tart with shortcrust pastry

egg

Chinese Egg Tarts using Christine’s recipe: http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2009/03/cantonese-egg-tarts-recipe.html I have tried baking these using ready rolled puff pastry and it works just as well, although the puff takes a bit longer to cook. The secret to these tarts is the oven temperature.  I have found that baking these using the bottom heat only ption without the …

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Japanese Castella Cake

castella cake

Thanks to Jenny Cheung for posting this recipe.  The cake is delicious, fabulous results considering it has no butter or oil! I did not brush the top of the cake with honey as I found it was sweet enough with out it. http://www.justonecookbook.com/castella/

Dan kwok

dan kwok

My mum has always made these and there are many variations you can make.  I used pork mince, spring onions, grated carrot and I marinated the mixture with ginger wine, corn flour, some chinese spice and salt and white pepper.  I let it marinade for about 15 to 20mins and then I added the egg …

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