Ingredient: butter Recipes
Beef Stroganoff
Beef stroganoff in 30 minutes with tender steak and a sour cream sauce that does not split. Serves 4, and the cut of beef that makes the difference.
Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns with a proper flour-paste cross and a sticky glaze, made from scratch. Makes 12 in about 3 hours, most of it the dough rising.
Cupcakes
Cupcakes that rise flat and even instead of doming or sinking, with proper buttercream. Makes 12 in about 40 minutes, and the two-thirds fill rule.
Cottage Pie
Cottage pie with a filling thick enough to hold the mash up and a crisp forked top. Serves 6 in about 1 hour 20, plus the shepherds pie difference.
Shortbread
Proper shortbread with the classic 3-2-1 ratio and cornflour for shortness. Makes 24 in about 50 minutes, and it keeps three weeks in a tin.
French Toast
French toast with a proper custard soak and a low pan so the middle sets. Serves 4 in 20 minutes, and the bread that makes all the difference.
Waffles
Most homemade waffles are pancakes with a pattern on them. They come out of the iron looking right and they’ve gone soft and floppy by the time the second batch is done. Crisp waffles are a different batter and one piece of technique, and neither is difficult.
Weet-Bix Slice
Every Kiwi household has a version of this slice, and every version is slightly wrong according to someone’s mother.
Creamed Paua
Creamed paua is one of those dishes that never made it into cookbooks because it never needed to. If you dive, someone showed you. If you don’t, someone brought you a bag and told you what to do with it.
Aunty Glyn’s Chocolate Fudge
Fast and easy fudge recipe that everyone can’t stop eating!