Recipes For Thought

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Durian Cake

I like recipes and recipe books by Betty Saw and I tried this durian cake recipe from one of her books. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients :
180g butter
100g caster sugar (I lessen the sugar on my own)
4 eggs separated
150g durian flesh
180g sifted self-raising flour
2 tablespoon of milk

1. Line base and grease cake tin. Cream butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in eqq yolks one at a time. Beat well after each addition.
3. Add durian and beat until well-blended.
4. Fold in flour and stir in milk.
5. Whisk egg whites separately until stiff.
6. Fold into egg yolk mixture.
7. Pour mixture into a pan and level surface.
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees celsius for 50 min or until cake is cooked.
9. Cool cake tine for 15 min before turning out cake.

Ghim Moh Market

SL brought me to Blk 20 Ghim Moh Market to try some of the popular food stalls. Here are my favourites after trying them out:

1) Char Kway Teow at Blk 20 Ghim Moh Road #01-12 - it is a small and unassuming, humble looking stall but with a consistently long queue. At first taste, it seems the normal char kway but the taste simply grows on you. Plus there are many big cockles in them which is yummy for words. At the end of it, I crave for more. The price is $3.00 at least (if I remember correctly).

2) Ipoh Hor Fun at Blk 20 Ghim Moh Road #01-46 - I used to live at Marine Parade and there was a stall selling Ipor Hor Fun which has a very pleasant gravy with herbal tastes. THe stall is no more there since the 1990s. I finally found the nearest thing to it at this stall. The gravy is very pleasant and not too dark and thick. Ingredients include fresh prawns & chicken meat at $2.50. What more can one ask for.