Kristygourmet Cook Book

I haven't been baking X'mas fruit cake for many years cause my boy doesn't like the dried cherry. The other day I mentioned to him that I wanna to make one this year, and he quickly give me the look .....  haha.....  I was like Ok OK no fruit cake !  So after cleaning my fridge, found some leftover kurma @ dried dates & dried figs and decided to clear off by making kurma & date cake. Wow.... it was surprisingly good. Please read on for more. Ingredients : 200gm  dried kurma @ Date, seeded & sliced 200gm  dried figs, sliced 380ml   boiling water 150gm  butter at room temperature 170gm   brown sugar 3 eggs 225gm  selfraising flour 1 tspn   baking soda Method : (1)  soaked kurma and sliced figs into boiling water for an hour or till softened, then puree it with blender. (2)  beat butter and sugar till fluffy then beat together the kurma & fig puree till well mixed. (3) next, beat in egg one at a time till well cooperated. (4) now, stir i

My 2nd attempt making ginger wine. After a 3 whole months of waiting, I am truly happy with the result. It turns out really strong and smell really good compare to the previous batch I made. Just harvested today. Can't wait to try it in my cooking soon .... ginger mee suah, ginger wine chicken, steamed fish, steamed chicken ...... and many more >o<  Please read on for more. Couldn't find bentong ginger, so get the Thai bentong ginger instead. Not bad, at least better than the Chinese ginger. I ngredients : 1kg bentong ginger 750gm (3pkt) rock sugar 6L water 2pcs sweet wine biscuit 2pcs spicy wine biscuit Method : 1. wash ginger then blow dry under the sun, cut into small pcs. 2. bring rock sugar, ginger slices and water into boil, keep boiling for 30 minutes over medium heat. 3. then leave cool overnight. 4. crushed wine biscuit into powder form and set aside, then transfer half of the cooked ginger & water into a 10L glass jar. Add in wine