Gelukkig sien mens my nie omdat die bos so dik is, maar almal se honde het agtergekom ek staan daar en blaf vir my. Nie juis die beste situasie om in te wees nie as mens besig is met diefstal. Ek pluk vinnig al die bessies wat ek kan en maak amper my hele bakkie vol. Maar daar hang nog só baie net an die ander kant, net buite my bereik. Die Boerboel se tuin het 'n elektriese heining wat ek verkieslik nie aan sal raak nie. En natuurlik sou ek verkieslik ook nie die hond se middagete wil word nie.
So ek hang maar tussen die takke soos 'n enorme apie en probeer elke bessie gryp wat ek kan kry. Eintlik wil ek die bure vra of ek kan kom en van hulle kant af die vruggies kan pluk. Maar hulle het ook 'n reuse Bougainvillea wat my ma en die tuinier 'n jaar of wat terug vergiftig het omdat die ding die heeltyd ons erf vol pienk blomme mors, so ek is nie seker hoe vriendelik hulle is nie. Toe ek jonk was het ek ook een keer my bal oor die muur gegooi en hulle wou hom nie eers soek nie. So ek skat hulle wil nie juis met hul bure verkeer nie.
Maar uiteindelik was my plunder nie te klein nie. Ek kon immers 'n botteltjie of drie konfyt kook.
Moerbeie uit hul tuin, appeliefies uit ons s'n. |
Laat lê die bessies in lae met suiker vir 4 ure en kook dit dan oor 'n lae hitte om kopnfyt te maak. |
Drie botteltjies plesier. |
Ek het die konfyt en nog meer gesteelde moerbeie toe vir hierdie heeeeeeeerlike shortbread ook gebruik:
Austrian Raspberry Shortbread ( as always by smitten kitchen):
1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, slightly softened (about 400g)
4 egg yolks
2 cups granulated sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 egg yolks
2 cups granulated sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 cup raspberry jam, at room temperature
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
-Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle
attachment (or using a hand mixer) until soft and fluffy.
-Add the egg yolks and
mix well.
-Mix the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt
together. Add to the butter and egg yolk mixture and mix just until
incorporated and the dough starts to come together. Turn the dough out onto a
floured work surface and form into two balls. Wrap each ball in plastic wrap
and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight (or as long as a month, if you like).
-Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
-Remove one ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely
grate it by hand or with the grating disk in a food processor into the bottom
of a 9×13-inch baking pan or a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Make
sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough.
-With a piping bag with a wide tip or a zip-lock bag with
the corner cut off, squeeze the jam over the surface as evenly as possible, to
within 1/2 inch of the edge all the way around. Remove the remaining dough from
the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface.
-Bake until lightly golden brown and the center no longer
wiggles, 50 to 60 minutes. As soon as the shortbread comes out of the oven,
dust with confectioners’ sugar.
-Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated
knife. I find that for this an all bar cookies, chilling the pan in the fridge
makes it a lot easier to get clean cuts. ( Ok I found it easier to cut them when they are warm...)
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