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Why settle for a tiny bit of butter on your bread when you could eat a chunk of butter (minus the bread) to “lubricate [your] arteries and veins.”? And why settle for a cake with some whipped cream when you can make a cake with a mountain of it? These are just some of the posts that can be found at the Facebook group Questionable Vintage Recipes, and Bored Panda has compiled the weirdest posts from the said group. 

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What’s for dinner? Castellon’s Kitchen

Mushroom Skulls 

 

Raspberry Jaffa cake icebergs with mini penguins

You’ll have as much fun making these as the birds sliding on the gin-infused icebergs.

Easy Autumn Recipes

Nigel Slater’s baked sausages with harissa and tomatoes

  Dover sole with grapes, roasted duck legs, baked sausages with harissa and more.

Arancini

Slice orange peels into small pieces.Put them in a container and add water.
 Over the next two days change the water twice a day. Pour out the water and weigh the oranges.Then, prepare the same weight of sugar as oranges. Put the pan or pot on the stove.
 Put the oranges, sugar and vanilla sugar in the pan or pot. When the pan or pot heats up keep mixing all the ingredients. The water will start to evaporate.
The Arancini (orange peel) are finished when all the water evaporates and the sugar starts crystallizing again. Put the orange peel on baking paper and leave it to dry for a day.
 After they dry put them in a container with the lid to prevent them from drying too much over time.

 

Weekend Plans.

(Photo: Cro Chef/Zagreb Tourist Board)

 Makovnjača is a poppy seed roll and is popular at Christmas time in Croatia. There are many variations out there but here is a simply Makovnjača recipe which you can try just in time for Christmas.

 

Kiflice

Vanilla flavored kiflice, or vanilla half-moons, are small soft biscuit which are usually made over the Christmas period in Croatia. Made using walnuts, kiflice are usually eaten as a small dessert after a meal or with an afternoon tea or coffee.
 Check out this simple recipe to make your own at home.

 

Easter Recipe – Ham in Bread

Ingredients 

Ham (cooked) – 1kg

 Flour – 500 g 

Sugar –1 tablespoon

 Yeast

 Butter – 200 g 

Milk – 200 ml 

Eggs – 6

 Egg yolk –1

 Salt

  Instructions
 1. In a clean bowl sieve the flour – add the yeast, sugar, salt, melted butter, warm milk and eggs and mix together. Then use a beater to mix well.
 2. Place the dough in a dish (make sure the surface is sprinkled with flour), cover and leave at room temperature for 45 minutes.
 3. Cut the skin off the ham.
 4. Grease a tray with some fat and sprinkle flour on top. Put the dough on top and then place the ham on top of the dough. Paste the ham with an egg yolk and sprinkle with flour.
 5. Now wrap the ham in the dough. Place in a pre-heated oven (180°C) and then cook for around one hour.
 6. Once it is cooked you can cut and serve. (so it does not burn you can cover the top part with foil) Check out the video, with English subtitles here.

 

How to make... Strawberry Pavlova Cake!

This Magic 3 Layer Custard Cake Looks Divine

 The magic custard cake is a miracle of dessert science, created using a normal batter which is baked at a low temperature so the batter has time to separate into layers as it bakes.
 See Magic 3 Layer Custard Cake recipe here

 

Ultimate Thanksgiving Bloody Mary

This cocktail is recommended for dealing with: annoying family members who insist on discussing politics, Black Friday sales, and/or a holiday hangover. It's also a way to use up Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. See the complete ingredient list for the Ultimate Thanksgiving Bloody Mary.

 

Croatian Recipes : Breskvice

Breskvice, or peach-shaped sweets, are one of the most common sweets made in Croatia.
 Often found at weddings, christenings, family parties, they are particularly popular in the east of the country. They are time consuming to make but are worth the effort hence they are made for special occasions.
 See the recipe

 

23 Quick and Tasty Low-Carb Dinners Under 500 Calories

Here are some easy dinner options all under 500 calories, with less than 25 grams of carbs per serving.

 

Winnie The Pooh Dumplings

Glutinous rice dumpling, called Tang yuan, is traditional Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and usually served in ginger syrup. It’s really fun to turn ordinary tang yuan to look special, so Peaceloving Pax will teach you
 how to make Winnie the Pooh and his cartoon friends’ dumplings.

 

Yotam Ottolenghi’s flatbread recipes

Flatbreads are the perfect introduction to baking bread at home. They’re also ideal vehicles for all kinds of tasty spreads, toppings and fillings.

These are messy to eat because they don’t fold perfectly like tortilla, but it’s all part of the fun.

The 50 Best Holiday Cookie Recipes from Epicurious

Magazine and leading culinary website Epicurious compiled an article on their picks for their 50 best holiday cookie recipes from their large archive. So whether you'd like to get an early start on cookie baking or cookie eating, the linked article sets you up with a list that's handily divided into categories: The Classics, The Decorating Favorites, For Chocolate Lovers, The Kid Friendly Set, and The Spiced Ones.
 Check out the recipes from each delicious category here.

 

27 Fast Food Recipes Hacked

The linked collection of recipes at PopSugar includes instructions — 27, to be exact — for fast food favorites recreated by food bloggers. While they won't be exactly the same as the fast food versions, they may even be superior, in terms of being lighter in calories. See all 27 recipes here.

 

Watermelon Strawberry Sorbet

This sorbet is ready in minutes, and it is the perfect treat on a hot summer day!

 

Traditional Easter bread / Pinca

Ingredients:
 400 g of wheat flour (half white)
7 g action dry yeast
 10 g vanilla sugar
1 whole egg and two egg yolks
 50 ml agave nectar
55 g butter, melted over low heat
a pinch of Himalayan salt
half tsp of home grown lemon zest
 1 tbsp rum 250 ml milk -
1 egg yolk from the spread
- almonds, raisins- optional
- brown sugar for sprinkling- optional

  Heat the milk for a short while over low heat. It has to get slightly warm.
 Pour it over the yeast and vanilla sugar that you have previously put in a small bowl.
Let it be like that for about 8-10 minutes.
 In a separate large bowl combine about 350 g flour with a pinch of salt.
 Add the egg and egg yolk and the agave. Stir. Pour the milk with the yeast and mix well.
Add the rum and zest of lemon. Melt the butter over low heat and the gradually pour it into the mixture, constantly stiring and mixing. At this point, gradually add the remaining flour.
The dough has to separate slightly from the walls of the bowl. You can add almonds and raisins at this point if you like. Another option can be that you sprinke the almonds and raisins only on the top of the "pinca", before baking. It's up to you! Once you've kneaded the dough, cover it and let it rest for 2 hours in a warm place. It must double it size. After 2 hours, knead it once again, cover it and leave it to rise for one more hour. Form a nice round shape, spread the egg yolk all over it and make a deep cut with a sharp knife shaped like a cross.
 Bake the Easter bread on 170 C degrees somewhere between 15-20 minutes.
 Lower the oven on 150 C degrees and bake for another 20 minutes.
 Recipe by Paula

The best pancake recipes

This classic pancake recipe from Mary Berry only uses three ingredients: flour, milk and egg. Best of all, Berry says 'do not worry if the first pancake or two is a failure'.
Click to see Mary Berry's basic pancake recipe.