Almond Cookies  

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Ingredients :
  • 8 ounces (1 cup) palm oil
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 to 3 teaspoons almond extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • whole unpeeled almonds
Directions :


  1. Preheat the oven to 325 F (165 C) and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl cream palm oil, sugar, eggs and almond extract.
  3. In another bowl mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  4. On low speed, slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  5. Roll dough into one inch balls and place them 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet. These cookies will spread so make sure to give them plenty of room.
  6. Press an almond into the center of each cookie.
  7. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until light golden brown. Allow cookies to cool to room temperature. They can be stored in an airtight container for a week but taste best within the first three days.

Pineapple Tart Pastry  

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Ingredients :

Pineapple jam :
  • 2 pineapples
  • 250 grammes granulated sugar
  • 5 cloves
  • a dash of cinnamon powder
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Tart :
  • 1 lbs flour
  • 10 oz. butter
  • 2 – 3 egg yolks
  • Some cold water
  • 4 teaspoon castor sugar
Directions :

Pineapple jam :
  1. Skin pineapple and scrape out the flesh. Drain flesh on a sieve for 10 minutes to obtain ½ cup of juice.
  2. Place the scraped pineapple flesh in a non-stick pan and add granulated sugar, pineapple juice, lemon juice, cloves and cinnamon. Place pan over low heat and cook, stirring occasionally for about ½ hour until pineapple jam is sticky and can easily be rolled into a ball. Set aside to cool.
Tart :
  1. Sift the flour and add in the castor sugar.
  2. Using the pointed ends of a fork, rub the butter into the flour until it looked like fine bread crumbs. If necessary, use fingertips to continue rubbing lightly the bigger pieces into finer pieces.
  3. Add egg yolks and cold water at the same time and knead well lightly combine them using finger tips (rather than kneading them like bread dough) before rolling out to desired thickness.
  4. Bake using 160 degrees Celcius / 325 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes. When placing jam onto the pastry, take caution not to smear jam onto the sides as this will easily “burn” and render the sides of the pastry (the flowery design) darker.

Christmas Log  

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Ingredients :
  • 175g (6oz) Butter
  • 175g (6oz) Plain Chocolate melted
  • 150ml (¼ pint) Double Cream
  • 100g (3½oz) Caster Sugar
  • 90g (3oz) Plain Flour
  • 75g (3oz) Icing Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 4 tbsp Rum
  • 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tbsp Coffee Essence
  • Icing Sugar
Directions :
  1. Pre-heat oven to 200°C: 400°F: Gas 6
  2. Grease and line a 33 x 22 cm (13 x 9 inch) Swiss roll tin.
  3. Cream the eggs and sugar in a large bowl.
  4. Fold in sieved flour and cocoa powder.
  5. Transfer to tin.
  6. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until risen and golden.
  7. Allow to cool slightly.
  8. Sprinkle caster sugar on a sheet of greaseproof paper (placed on a dampened cloth).
  9. Turn out the cake, trim edges and roll up.
  10. Cool.
  11. Whisk together the cream, rum and coffee until stiff.
  12. Gently unroll the cake and spread with the filling.
  13. Re-roll.
  14. Cream the butter, icing sugar and chocolate together.
  15. Coat cake with the chocolate mixture.
  16. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
  17. Chill for an hour before serving.

如果你聽見我的歌 - 王力宏  

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Ginger Cookies  

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Ingredients :
  • 200g plain flour
  • ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¾ tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 tsp ground ginger powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 120g butter
  • 80g castor sugar
  • 30g golden syrup
  • 25g grated fresh ginger
  • 1 Tbsp demerara sugar
Directions :
  1. Sift flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Add ground ginger, cinnamon powder and salt to mix.
  2. Cream butter and sugar until light, then beat in the golden syrup and grated ginger.
  3. Stir in the sifted dry ingredients to mix. Lightly form the mixture into a ball of dough.
  4. Roll out between two plastic sheets. Stamp out into rounds. Place on lightly greased trays and sprinkle over with demerara sugar. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 13-15 minutes.
  5. Leave the cookies on the trays for 1-2 minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool.

Vegetarian Mixed Vegetables  

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Ingredients :
  • 100g Chinese cabbage
  • 100g Carrots
  • 100g Snow peas
  • 6 Dried Chinese mushroons
  • 3 tablespoons oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp Water
Directions :
  1. Soak the dried mushrooms in warm water for 30 mins.
  2. Squeeze dry, discard the hard stalks and cut into thin slices.
  3. Trim the snow peas, cut the Chinese cabbage and carrots into slices.
  4. Heat the oil in a preheated wok.
  5. Add Chinese cabbage, carrots, snow peas and dried mushroom, and stir-fry for 1 min.
  6. Add salt and sugar, stir for another min or so with a little more water if necessary.
  7. Do not overcook or the vegetables will lose their crunchiness.

Thick Green Pea Soup  

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Ingredients :
  • 50g green peas
  • 1 cup soup stock
  • 1 cup soymilk
Seasoning :
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • black pepper as required
Directions :
  1. Wash the green peas, pour them into the soup stock and mix. Blend the mixture in a blender, then strain through a sieve.
  2. Heat the soymilk and creamed green peas in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Season and serve.

Sehati dan Sejiwa - Haslinda  

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Ping Pei Mooncake  

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Ingredients :

(Skin A)
  • 150 gm kou fun (cooked glutinuos rice flour)
  • 50 gm shortening (pai yu)
  • 180 gm water
  • 50 gm icing sugar
  • Drops of vanilla essence
(Skin B)

  • Drops of green, yellow and read colouring
(Filling)

  • 400 gm red dates paste
  • 30 gm kuaci
Directions :

  1. Mix red dates paste with kuaci, apportion into 4 pieces and then kneads roundly.
  2. Knead (Skin A) into smooth rough, apportion into 4 pieces and then coloured differently, let rise for 30 minutes, then store in refrigerator to cold them.
  3. Take out the 4 coloured dough, combine together and apportion into 4 pieces, then flatten dough and wrap in filling.
  4. Press into a mooncake mould, knock out to dislodge mooncake. Chill crystal mooncake in fridge.

防身貼士  

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  1. 回到家門前,最好先準備取出鎖匙,勿站在門口尋找鎖匙.
  2. 開車送朋友回家時,等到朋友進了家門後才離去.
  3. 平常身上一定要備有硬幣
  4. 發生不幸時,一定要保持鎮定,記得對方的特征
  5. 駕駛時,記得鎖上車門. 停車後,留在車內稍作觀察才下車.
  6. 乘坐電梯時,留意身旁者是否不懷好意,儘量站在按鈕之處. 一旦對方出現不妥行為,按每一層樓的按鈕.
  7. 夜晚出門儘量披套外,并將皮包套住,以減低被搶劫的風險.