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Caysa, you bake the best desserts! (Lining a cake pan with bread crumbs is a new one to me.) Does it need a frosting or some whipped cream when served?

those look sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yummy lol

AllyKass wrote: this 2 dl of potato starch or maize starch makes it different of usual pound cake?
but as usual,your cakes seems yummy and i want just eat these

That makes it more fluffy and light, like cotton wool

How does that tast? I never have eaten cotton wool..please tell me!

Well haha!!
You have to bake a cake and you will see!!!
Actually I referred to the texture, not the taste , the taste is..... yummy, cognacy, buttery, like grandma used to make them

caysa wrote: Well haha!!
You have to bake a cake and you will see!!!
Actually I referred to the texture, not the taste , the taste is..... yummy, cognacy, buttery, like grandma used to make them

Cannot you send me your freezer with such a cake in it?? Or only the cognac?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm my Gramma never made drunk cakes
giggle

Bisky wrote: Caysa, you bake the best desserts! (Lining a cake pan with bread crumbs is a new one to me.) Does it need a frosting or some whipped cream when served?

Awwwww lol - we actually like this type of cakes with coffee. And I don't think it needs ANYTHING - the cognac taste is cool enough!

The bread crumbs lining is a very old trick - it will NOT stick at all when you try to get it out after baking!

ergee wrote: quote by "caysa" Well haha!!
You have to bake a cake and you will see!!!
Actually I referred to the texture, not the taste , the taste is..... yummy, cognacy, buttery, like grandma used to make them

Cannot you send me your freezer with such a cake in it?? Or only the cognac?

Actually this cake will keep in room temperature for weeks (that's if it isn't eaten )

AnnaXLA1 wrote: ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm my Gramma never made drunk cakes
giggle

She should have!! Keeps Grandpa from getting too drunk

And there's no alcohol left after baking it - so even I can enjoy the taste of cognac

lol Caysa

Pick your nettles in the afternoon of a sunny day. This reduces the nitrates in the nettles (same goes for picking spinage too).
You need a basket or a bucket and most importantly you need gloves!!
I like to use double surgical gloves, but also other gloves are ok as long as you can pick with them on.



Pick the nettles from clean places, not by busy roads and not from composts or dung heaps (there is too much nitrates in those places).
The best time to pick them is when they are small, 5cm - 20cm. Later on you can still pick but the you pick only the top of bigger nettles.





If you pick them one by one it is much easier to clean them later.
I picked this much in about an hour.





Now I will rinse and clean them..... more will follow....

From this much it is possible to brew much tea!

caysa can make soups and pancakes of them and many other odd green stuff.

I rinse them in the sink in lots of water. A good help is kitchen tongs!!







Then I clean the nettles one by one so that I can nip off bits of root or woody stems. Also all bits of grass and other plants are easy to remove that way. This is the most time consuming bit. Remember the gloves.....

This much is what I have cleaned off:




And here are the nettles in two bowles - one last rinsing before cooking.

I cook this amount in two lots. Put the nettles in a large pot and fill it with cold water. Let it heat and when it starts cooking turn the nettles around every now and then for 5 minutes.



Take the nettles out and drain them. They have now "melted" til a lot!!!



Trow away the "dirty" water. (some people would save it and drink it, but I prefer not to, because here are the nitrates....) I kindly ask Juha to take it outside to the compost - it is very good there !!

I could starve if its ready, it takes the century to get something edible from it

HAHA!!! Well you will not get anything tonight, that's for sure!!
This is the gathering part, like picking berries.
When this job is done then you can take it from the freezer and use it for food. And then it is "fast food"

so,its interesting, i wait the next capture

Now both lots have been cooked and drained - time for the blender.
You can also cut the with a good knife but it takes more time and you will not get it quite so fine.



And this is all what is left of that basket full but in every little box is enough for a 4 persons meal. I freeze about 3 tablespoon in each box.




I am not sure when I will cook the first meal - who knows, maybe tomorrow

That's it for tonight!!

ok,thanks,it was cool....hope the meal will cool, too

4 eggs
1½ - 2 teaspoons salt
1 liter milk
5 dl flour
3 tablespoons of nettle mix
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Beat the eggs lightly, add salt and milk.
Add flour and mix well until everything is smooth.
Add the nettle mix and mix it in.
Leave the batter to rest for at least ½ hour.
Just before you start frying the pancakes / crepes you add the oil.

Heat a frying pan and fry MANY pancakes /crepes
The batter should be quite thin so be careful that you dont use too much in the pan.
They should come out thin and crispy around the edges.

I want to get them done quickly so I use two pans





We like to eat them with a little butter that melts on the top......
And this is how Saga eats them - she rolls them and eats them by hand. Can you tell that she likes them????

They look cool

robin wrote:They look cool

No, they are HOT

oh,now i want to make them ....nettles, where are you!!!!

3 tablespoons of butter or margarine
½ dl of flour (you can use up to 3/4 dl if you want a thicker soup)
1 l milk
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon of sugar - gives a lovely smooth finish
a little white peppar
3 tablespoons of nettle mix
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1 hard boiled egg for every person

Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the flour. Dont let it brown - just mix them together.
Add the milk little by little mixing well all the time. Be careful not to burn it!!
Add salt, sugar, peppar and nettle mix. Let cook on slow heat for a few minutes. Mix all the time to prevent burning.
(if you have a double boiler it would be perfect to use now)

Serve with 2 egg halves "swimmimg" in the soup.

AllyKass wrote:oh,now i want to make them ....nettles, where are you!!!!

--- and no onions either

haha,soup have no onions, but seems like sweet flowerghost