Recipes for tasty and healthy goodies from our summer courses.
Not only love to man’s heart but also love to English can go through the stomach. Here are recipes for fantastic, healthy and easy to make desserts which were a part of the refreshment at our summer course for adults A2. To make it a little easier you can check all the new vocab in an English – Czech glossary and practice them on Quizletu.
And you can also look at photos from this wonderful, really summery course. So, bon appetite 😀
MIRABELLE DELIGHT
Ingredients:
Mirabelles
Sour cream
Brown sugar or honey
Vanilla essence or vanilla
Ladyfinger cookies
- Whisk the sour cream with sugar/honey and vanilla essence.
- Put the ladyfinger cookies into creme-brulee style bowls.
- Cut the mirebelles, take out the pits and slice.
- Make layers of sour cream, mirabelles and ladyfinger cookies.
- Finish with a layer of sour cream and decorate with mirabelles and some mint.
QUARK AND BERRIES JAR DESSERT
Ingredients:
Quark
Honey
Oatmeal
Wallnut liqueur (optional)
Berries: gooseberries, red and black currants, blueberrries, raspberries, blackberries – just whatever you can find in your garden
Wallnuts (optional)
Strawberry syrup (optional)
- Whisk the quark with honey
- Put some oats in a jar/glass and flavour it with the wallnut liquer
- Make layers of quark and fruit and insert a wallnut here and there.
- Finish with a layer of quark and decorate it with fruit and mint.
- Pour some strawberry syrup on top.
QUARK-AVOCADO SUMMER FRUIT MAGIC
Ingredients:
Quark
Sour cream (optional)
Honey
Oat meal
Wallnut liqueur or strawberry syrup (optional)
Summer fruit – berries, peaches, mirabelles etc.
Avocado
- Whisk the quark and sour cream with honey
- Whisk the avocado with honey
- Put the oat meal into a jar/glass and flavour with the liqueur or syrup
- Make layers of quark/sour cream, fruit and avocado.
- Finish with a layer of quark/sour cream or avocado and sprinkle with oat meal.
- Decorate with berries, oats and mint
BLUEBERRY ZUCCHINI-BUTTERMILK CAKE
Ingredients (for a round mould):
2 eggs
¼ cup brown sugar
1/5 package vanilla sugar or a dash of vanilla essence
¼ cup oil
¼ cup buttermilk
1 cup flour
½ cup finely grated zucchini
½ package baking powder
blueberries
butter, flour, oat meal and suggar fot the topping
- Beat the eggs and sugar
- Slowly add the oil and butter milk
- Add the zucchini and the rest of the ingredients
- Pour into a mould lined with baking paper
- Cover with blueberries and the topping (drobenka)
- Bake at 170 – 190C for 20 – 30 min
RHUBARB AND BERRIES TART
Ingredients for the pastry:
1 ½ cups flour
¼ cup brown sugar
1/8 tsp salt)
8 tbs butter
1 egg yolk beaten with 2 tbs cream
- Combine the dry ingredients
- Add butter and work it in with your hands or with a food processor
- Add the rest and knead until smooth
- Put in the fridge for an hour or so
Ingredients for the filling:
3 – 4 big rhubarb stalks
a bowl of garden berries – gooseberies, currants, blueberries, mirabelles atc
Brown sugar
Vanilla pudding
- Clean the rhubarb and cut into even pieces
- Boil it with a dash of water and sugar until mushy, and let cool down
- Add the berries and pudding (and more sugar if necessary)
- Roll out the pastry and put it into a mould or a baking tray
- Pour in the fruit pudding mixture
- Make topping from 1 part flour, 1 part oatmeal, 1 part brown sugar and 1 part butter (you can add a dash of cinnamon).
- Crumble the topping all over the tart.
- Bake at 160-170 C until the filling is quite firm on top (30 – 40 min) – it depends on the size.
GLOSSARY
delight – potěšení
sour cream – zakysaná smetana
ladyfinger cookies – cukrářské piškoty
to whisk – našehat
a bowl – miska
to slice – nakrájet na plátky
a layer – vrstva
mint – máta
quark – tvaroh
oatmeal – ovesné vločky
gooseberries – angrešt
currants – rybíz
raspberries – maliny
blueberries – borůvky
buttermilk – podmáslí
zucchini – cuketa
a mould – forma
egg yolk – žloutek
to knead hníst
food processor – robot
