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4 eggs
1 c. all-purpose flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1 c. milk
1/4 c. water
1 tbsp. melted butter
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These delicate pancakes made of egg-and-flour batter are both fun to make and delicious.They are often filled with meat, fish, or vegetables, covered with a sauce, and served as a main course.
Dessert crepes are made with a sweeter batter and are often filled with fruit.
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Green salads are served after the main dish “to clear the palate.” This means that the lettuce and light dressing refresh your taste buds, preparing them for the new flavors of the dessert to follow.
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Chinese tea usually comes in loose form rather than in tea bags. It is always drunk plain, without sugar, lemon, or milk.The following method of preparing tea will give the best results.
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This recipe is for plain, delicious white rice.Any leftovers can be used to make fried rice, so you will seldom have to waste this versatile food.
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To many diners who are used to eating with silverware, chopsticks seem like tricky utensils at first. But chopsticks are not difficult to manage once you have learned the basic technique.The key to using them is to hold the inside stick still while moving the outside stick back and forth. The pair then acts as pincers to pick up pieces of food.
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Café con leche is more milk than coffee and is very heavily sugared. Most adults drink it, as well as some children.

You need:
4 c. milk(*To reduce fat, use skim milk)
4 tsp. regular or decaffeinated instant coffee
8 tsp. sugar
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Cooks in the United States measure both liquid and solid ingredients using standard containers based on the 8-ounce cup and the tablespoon. These measurements are based on volume, while the metric system of measurement is based on both weight (for solids) and volume (for liquids).To convert from U.S. fluid tablespoons, ounces, quarts, and so forth to metric liters is a straightforward conversion, using the chart below. However, since solids have different weights—one cup of rice does not weigh the same as one cup of grated cheese, for example—many cooks who use the metric system have kitchen scales to weigh different ingredients.The chart below will give you a good starting point for basic conversions to the metric system.
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Very simple:

Slice the tomatoes, add some sliced onions and put it in an oil/vinegar sauce.
Add some salt and pepper.

Refinements: use olive oil instead of ‘normal’; add garlic and / or parsley.

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Find out information about the different types of pepper and the difference between them.

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper and green pepper. Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimetres in diameter, dark red when fully mature, containing a single seed.

Dried, ground pepper is one of the most common spices in European cuisine and its descendants, having been known and prized since antiquity for both its flavour and its use as a medicine. The spiciness of black pepper is due to the chemical piperine. Ground black peppercorn, usually referred to simply as “pepper”, may be found on nearly every dinner table in some parts of the world, often alongside table salt. Black pepper is produced from the still-green unripe berries of the pepper plant. The berries are cooked briefly in hot water, both to clean them and to prepare them for drying. The heat ruptures cell walls in the fruit, speeding the work of browning enzymes during drying. The berries are dried in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the fruit around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer around the seed. Once dried, the fruits are called black peppercorns.

White pepper consists of the seed only, with the fruit removed. This is usually accomplished by allowing fully ripe berries to soak in water for about a week, during which time the flesh of the fruit softens and decomposes. Rubbing then removes what remains of the fruit, and the naked seed is dried. Alternative processes are used for removing the outer fruit from the seed, including removal of the outer layer from black pepper produced from unripe berries. White pepper is often used in dishes like light-coloured sauces or mashed potatoes, where ground black pepper would visibly stand out. There is disagreement regarding which is generally spicier. They do have differing flavours due to the presence of certain compounds in the outer fruit layer of the berry that are not found in the seed.

Green pepper, like black, is made from the unripe berries. Dried green peppercorns are treated in a manner that retains the green colour, such as treatment with sulphur dioxide or freeze-drying. Pickled peppercorns, also green, are unripe berries preserved in brine or vinegar. Fresh, unpreserved green pepper berries, largely unknown in the West, are used in some Asian cuisines, particularly Thai cuisine. Their flavour has been described as piquant and fresh, with a bright aroma. They decay quickly if not dried or preserved. A rarely seen product called pink pepper or Read the rest of this entry »

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