natural window cleaning recipe II

ingredients:
alcohol : vinegar : water
1 : 2 : 8

ref:   學是學非 season 4

natural window cleaning recipe I

ingredients:
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 tsp dish soap 

1. Mix well.

嫲嫲的煎义燒 grandma's recipes pan fry bbq pork



ingredients:
- 3lb pork shoulder (梅頭豬肉)

Marinate ingredients:
- 1 tbsp soy sauce or Maggi
- 2 tbsp dark soy sauce (老抽)
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- a pinch of white pepper

or use the following ingredients to substitute 1 tbsp soy sauce and 2 tbsp dark soy sauce(老抽)
- 1 1/2 tbsp Maggi
- 2 1/2 tbsp cooking wine


Other ingredients:
- 2 shallots, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3 tbsp cooking wine
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbsp brown sugar or maltose (麥芽糖), maltose is better

1. Cut the pork should into a big pieces or long pieces.  Marinate the pork overnight or at least 10 hrs.

2. Pan fry shallots and garlic for a while

3. Sear all around the porks until deep golden brown.

4. Use medium heat, add wine and water, cook until the pork well done.

5. Change to low heat and add sugar, keep stirring, cook until the sauce is thick enough.

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Or using pressure pot (keep the pork in whole big piece):

1. Season the pork overnight or at least 10 hrs.

2. Use sauté mode, reduce the temperature to 300F degree, heat 1 tbsp oil in a pressure pot. Cook the chopped shallots and minced garlic.

3. Add pork and sear all around until deep golden brown. Place pork aside. 

4. Add wine and water, scrubbing all the flavourful brown bits off the bottom of the pot. And mix it.

5. Place the pork on a rack and put into the pot.

6. Close the lid, change to pressure cook mode for 12 mins. (depend the thick of the pork.)  And auto release 15 mins.

7. Remove the pork from the pot, add sugar and cook the sauce until it thick enough.

8. Pour the sauce on the top of the pork, cut it into pieces and ready to eat.

la grange maple sugar apple pie (make 2 pies)


ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar or granulated maple sugar
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 4 cups thinly sliced peeled apples
- 2 X  9" pie shells

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1. Preheat the oven to 425F.

- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar or granulated maple sugar
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1/4 cup water

2. In saucepan, stir together sugar, milk & water over medium heat until dissolved; let cool.

- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp butter, softened
- 1 egg
- sugar mixture

3. In bowl and using electric mixer, beat flour with butter. add egg, continue beating until smooth.

4. Gradually beat in sugar mixture.

- 4 cups thinly sliced peeled apples
- 2 X 9" pie shells

5. Add apples, tossing to coat.

6. Spoon into pie shells.

7. Bake in 425F for 15 minutes.

8. Reduce heat to 350F and bake for 40 tp 45 minutes or until apples are tender & filling is set.

9. Let cool on rack.  And serve with ice-cream.

Or 

Bake in Mason Jar without the pie shell:


1. Same recipe as the above, but the apple can chop into smaller size.

2. Toss the apple with the sauce.

3. Put in the mason jars.

4. Bake at 350F for 45 to 55 mins.

5. Before serve, add digestive crackers crumbs on top of the apple pie.

6. Serve with ice-cream.

ref: Desserts in Jars 50 Sweet Treats that Shine, Shaina Olmanson, The Harvard Common Press

mulled wine



ingredients:

- 750ml red wine
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tsp mulling spices
(or 8 whole cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 star anise, 1 sliced orange)

1. combine all the ingredients and cook until it just barely reaches a simmer.

2. reduce the heat cook at least 20 minutes or up to 3 hours.

3. stain it and ready to serve.