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The name “brownies” first appeared in the 1896 Boston Cooking School Cookbook, where it describes molasses cakes baked in small tins. The origin of the Brownie is thought to be American and and is thought to derive its name from the brown color of the cookie. Folklore has its origin coming from a careless cook that forgot to put baking powder in the chocolate cake batter recipe.
The pound cake is a British Creation dating back to the 17th Century. The name (Pound Cake) comes from the fact that the original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. No leaveners were used other than the air whipped …
This is another cookie from The Netherlands, A great companion with a cup of coffee or tea. Bokkepootje translated means goat leg. If you look at the cookie it actually looks like one. Just use your imagination 🙂 They are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Ingredients
100 gram egg white
100 gram sugar
100 gram gounded almonds
20 gram all purpose flour
2-1 oz baking squares chocolate
Optional filling for in between the cookies:
200 grams blanched almonds
300 grams sugar
1 tablespoon almond extract
4 tablespoons corn syrup
Instructions
1. Add the almonds to the food processor and grind them up till fine powder, Whisk the egg whites with the half of the sugar. After you’ve gotten a little foam, add the other half of the sugar.Continue whisking. Add the flour to the fine powder almond.
2. Add the grind-ed almond mix to the whipped egg whites. Fill the pastry bag with this mixture and squirt on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with almonds if you like. Bake in an oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Put the chocolate in a bowl microwave for a minute or so. Stir in between till all melted. Take two cooled of pieces of cookies and dip the ends in melted chocolate. 
3. You can add marzipan in between the cookies but you can eat them without it to. To make the marzipan grind the almonds in a food processor for about two minutes. Keep it going till it’s fine powder, when it nearly forms clumps, that’s when you’ve got it right. Add the confectioners’ sugar and almond extract, then the corn syrup, processing until well-combined.
4. Turn the mixture out onto a work surface and knead until it makes a smooth dough. If the dough seems too sticky, knead in a little more confectioners’ sugar. If it seems too dry, add more corn syrup. At this point, the dough can be tightly wrapped in foil and refrigerated until needed.
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Catfish are not beautiful to look at, with their odd whiskers and big, gaping mouths, but beauty is not important when it comes to choosing fish that is flavorful. Catfish have skin that is similar to that of an eel, which is thick, slippery, and strong. All catfish should be skinned before cooking. The easiest method to skin a catfish is to nail the head of the dead fish to a board, hold on to its tail, and pull the skin off with pliers.
Channel catfish are farmed in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Mississippi is the world’s leading producer of pong-raised catfish. Of all the catfish grown in the United States, 80 percent comes from Mississippi, where more than 102,000 acres are devoted to catfish farms. Humphreys County, Mississippi, produces about 70 percent of the catfish consumed in the United States, and has over 30,000 acres under water. The town of Belzoni, in Humphreys County, is called the “Catfish Capital of the World.” Each spring the streets of down town Belzoni are transformed into a large carnival during the World Catfish Festival. Due in part to its reputation as a family oriented event, the World Catfish Festival has received several awards including Top 100 Events in North America and Top 20 Events of the Southeast. Info from Whats cooking in America
I could not find a lot about the history of Foo Yong Hai, but I believe it must have had traveled through a long and winding path to become the way it is now. But Nevertheless during its spread in Western Europe Foo Young Hai has gradually changed and was adapted as a more western style omelet with fillings inside, while in Canton, the standard way of cooking fried Foo Yong eggs is actually mix the ingredients (normally Cantonese BBQ pork strips and other vegetables) with the beaten egg yolk before frying. Apart from that, I was quite curious about the fillings since “hai” in Cantonese means crab. The Foo Yong Hai that I know mostly uses prawns, shrimps or chicken. Either way it’s a delicious dish. In this recipe I used chicken.