Week 5, Cooking with Ruth!

Pie de LimonCrust:
2 c flour
3 eggs (only yolks, save whites)
100 g butter (a little less than a stick), melted but not hot
1 heaping t baking powder

Mix all with electric beaters. Add water until dough is sticky. Butter pie dish- pres dough into pie plate & prick w/fork. Bake @ 350 for about 10 min.

Filling:
2 cans sweetened condensed milk
1 can (from the sweetened condensed milk) of fresh lemon juice (about 6 lemons)

Beat. Add 4 heaping tbsp sugar & beat more. Put filling in crust & bake about 10 min, until not much comes off when touched.

Beat saved egg whites for meringue. With cake decorating bag & large tip put meringue on top of pie.

Leche Nevada

Boil:

• 1 litre milk
• 1 cinnamon stick

Beat really well for Meringue:

• 3 egg whites
• sugar (powdered or granulated)

"Fry" pieces of meringue in boiling milk. Remove from milk. Remove cinnamon stick from milk. Add 3 TBSP sugar to milk.

Whip really well, then add really fast to milk (or eggs will cook):

• 3 egg yolks
• 1/2 c milk
• 2 TBSP corn starch

Boil for 3 minutes. If it's too thick , add more milk (with more milk, add more sugar). Remove from heat. Add meringue. Cool and serve.

Papas Rellenas

10 potatoes (only potatoes- can’t use leftover mashed potatoes)

boil, mash (while hot), then cool completely.

Add & mix w/hands
a little less than ¼ tsp pepper
1 whole egg

add a Tbsp + flour, until it feels like play dough

With flour on 1 hand, take a ball of dough & smash it flat. Put cheese sticks (& whatever else you want... ground beef, onions, etc) in middle & roll the dough around the filling. Put on waxed paper. If it’s sticking add flour to the outside of the dough. Boil in hot oil (make sure there is enough oil to cover completely). Can sprinkle w/powdered sugar.

*if cooking later, add more flour to the outside before frying
**put a little piece of lemon rind in the oil to prevent a fried smell... once it’s brown remove & add another.