No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel

Snow fungus is known for its medicinal benefits as it helps to nourish the body, heals dry cough and clears heat in the lungs.  It can be used to make savoury or sweet soup.  To combat the current heat spell that  we are experiencing I chose to make this into a sweet soup with dried lily bulb.  This can be served warm or chilled. Snow fungus with lily bulb sweet soup  ~    雪耳 百合 糖水 Ingredients 30 gm organic snow fungus 25 gm pak hup/dried lily bulb, rinsed 20 gm dried longan 110 gm organic cane sugar 2 lt water Screwpine leaves (optional) Method Soak the snow fungus till softened.  Remove the hard stem and snip into smaller pieces. Boil the water and once boiling, add in the snow fungus and cook for about 30 mins. Add in cane sugar to taste.  Continue to cook for about 20 mins. till flavour of the soup is enhanced.  Add in the lily bulb.  Simmer for another 10 mins. Dish out and serve.

I've baked Oreo chiffon cake ,  Oreo marble butter cake and this Oreo Butter Cake is another add-on to the list of butter cakes that I've posted before.  This butter cake recipe is indeed very versatile and one can tweak it here and there and yet the outcome is most rewarding.  In fact it will spur you on to try other variance of the recipe. Oreo Butter Cake  ~  奥利奥牛油蛋糕 Ingredients (A) 230 gm butter 150 gm caster sugar 200 gm self-raising flour (sifted) 4 egg yolks (about 68 gm with shell) 40 ml milk 1 tsp vanilla a pinch of salt 50 gm Oreo cookies, cream removed and crushed (7 cookies) (B)  4 egg whites 20 gm caster sugar Method Sift the flour with salt, set aside. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.  Add in egg yolks one @ time, mix well. Add in sifted flour alternating with the milk. Mix in crushed cookies.  Set aside. Beat egg whites till frothy and gradually add in sugar in batches.  Continue beating till still but not