Cookery with Mrs P – Valerie Parkinson teaches food technology in a comprehensive school in the north of England. She is a very good friend of Carol’s and a regular visitor to Waldbronn. In her free time she runs a successful, after-school cookery club for the pupils. Here is an Autumn recipe from their recipe book.
Spiced lentil soup
Ingredients:
30 ml oil
2 onions, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
4 sticks celery, chopped
2 garlic cloves, pressed
15 ml curry powder
2.5ml coriander
100g red lentils
1.5l vegetable stock
150ml tomato juice
Salt and pepper to taste
25g creamed coconut
Method:
Heat the oil in a large saucepan.
Add the chopped vegetables and cook over a low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the garlic and spices. Cook for 2 minutes then add the lentils, tomato juice and stock.
Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the coconut. Liquidise and adjust seasoning to taste.
Flapjack.
Flapjack is a typical British biscuit, a scrumptious treat at tea time and very easy to make!
Ingredients:
125g butter
125g soft brown sugar
250g rolled oats
75g syrup (optional)
20cm square baking tin, greased
Oven temperature: 180 C
Method:
Melt the butter in a pan over a low heat.
Add the sugar and syrup and stir until the mixture has melted.
Take the pan off the heat and stir in the rolled oats.
Press the ingredients into the baking tray and the bake for twenty minutes at 180 C.
Remove from oven and cool for about 2 minutes and cut into squares (it should still be quite soft). When the flapjacks are cold they become hard and you can take them off of the baking tray to eat and enjoy.
Did you know……? In the UK, a flapjack is a chewy, syrupy biscuit made from oats. In the USA it is very different and is another name for a pancake.
