Thursday, June 28, 2012

Flour Tortilla Mix


Flour Tortilla Mix
Ingredients:
8 cups flour
2 Tablespoons salt
1 Tablespoon baking powder
¼ cup shorting

Mix well until the shorting is well blended

Directions:
2 ½ cup of tortilla mix
½ cup water or milk
Kneed well
Put into 10 to 15 balls depending on the size you want the tortillas to be.  Roll each ball into a round flat piece and fry each side on a griddle.

Top with what every you like.

Top with what every you like.

Egypt
Note:  Scarab Beatles (also known as dung beetles) held an honored place in the hearts of the Ancient Egyptians.  They believed a giant scarab beetle rolled the sun across the sky.  It also seemed to the ancient Egyptians that the young scarab beetles emerged spontaneously from the burrow where they were born thus they were a sign of creation.  

Dates were 1st cultivated in Egypt and the Middle East and were an important food source.  Ancient Egyptians viewed the date as a symbol of fertility, sprouting up almost miraculously along rivers and oases in the region’s driest deserts.
Edible Scarab Beetle

Ingredients:
Pitted dates – beetle bodies
Red hots – eyes
Black licorice lace; about 4 inches per beetle – legs
Sour patch strips – wings  (You could use fruit rolls up or a stick of gum)
Whopper – dung
Cookie
Frosting

Directions:
Frost the cookie
Cut the licorice lace for the legs.
Cut sour patch strip for wings
Place the date on the cookie and arrange the other pieces as shown using frosting as glue. 

English Strawberry Trifle


English Strawberry Trifle
Note:  At cub camp each scout used a 5 ½ ounce clear plastic soufflĂ© cup to make an individual serving.  You can make this in a larger glass bowl as well.  There are many ways to make trifle.  This is simple way that was easy to do at camp.
Ingredients:
1 yellow cake baked in a 9X13 cake pan (a sponge or pound cake can be used)
Strawberry Jam
Chocolate pudding
Vanilla pudding
Whipped cream
Maraschino cherries

Directions:
Cut cake into ½ inch slices. 
Cut the slices into crouton size pieces and layer the bottom of the cup or bowl.
Drop dollops of strawberry jam on top of cake, followed by another layer of cake pieces.
Layer the chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, and any extra cake pieces until the cup or bowl is full. 
Top with whipped cream and a cherry

Chinese Egg Rolls


Chinese Egg Rolls – Makes 20-24
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked, chopped up chicken
1 cup finely diced onion
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons cooking oil (I prefer to use sesame oil because I like the flavor it adds)
2 (16 ounce) bags packaged coleslaw mix, with shredded carrots
1(12 ounce) bag of bean sprouts
½ cup bottled teriyaki marinade
¼ cup of soy sauce
20 -24 egg roll wraps
Hot oil for frying
Optional – dipping sauce such as sweet and sour sauce

Directions:
Cook onion and garlic in the 2 TBS oil until the onions are tender but not browned.
Add the chicken, coleslaw mix, bean sprouts, teriyaki sauce and soy sauce to the onions and garlic; mix well.
Cover and steam for 5 minutes
Remove from heat and drain the liquid from the mixture: taste and season with salt if desired
Wrap about ¼ cup of the mixture in eggroll wraps, sealing them with a little bit of water.  See the directions on the egg roll wraps.
Heat 1 ½ inches of vegetable oil in a wok or large frying pan.
Fry a few at a time, until a deep golden brown; drain on paper towels.

Note:  You can also use 1 bag of coleslaw and add more shredded carrots, shredded sweet potato, zucchini, peas, diced water chestnuts etc

Australian Anzac Biscuits


Anzac Biscuits


Ingredients:
1 cup quick cooking oats
2/4 cup flaked coconut
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1cup white sugar
½ cup margarine plus 1 TBS
1 tablespoon golden syrup or light Karo syrup
2 tablespoons boiling water

Directions
Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut together.
In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the syrup and margarine together. 
Mix the soda and the boiling water and add to the melted margarine and syrup.
Add the liquid to the dry ingredients, and mix.  Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheets (or baking paper).  
Bake at 350 degrees F for 18 to 20 minutes.
Loosen while warm.   Let cool on tray

These can be made at home in the oven, but we made them at cub day camp in a cardboard box oven.  Nothing like fresh cookies at camp.