Dinka's Cookbook
Tried and Tested Recipes
Baking
Cheese and Onion Muffins
This is also very good baked in a small loaf tin – adjust the baking time accordingly. These muffins are the very best in terms of flavour delivered in relation to effort expended.
Wholewheat Bran Muffins
Batter may also be kept in the refrigerator for up to one month, and baked as required. May also be frozen after baking.
Teta Katarina Stipinovich’s Fruit Cake
This is one of the more difficult fruit cakes to make, but the flavour is unsurpassed. It is a recipe that has stood the test of time being well over 100 years old!
Vanilla Sponge
Ice to taste – it tastes especially good iced with a chocolate-butter icing.This is a very adaptable batter, and apparently may be baked in ring moulds, as cup cakes (I never have) or as flans.
Irish Soda Bread
There are as many recipes for Irish soda bread as there are Irish cooks. However, I particularly like this one because of the addition of mashed potato, which gives a moister, tastier loaf than those made with no potato. And, after all, potato is virtually the Irish national food!
Potato Chive Monkey Bread
This bread is fabulous eaten slightly warm, and particularly good with roast chicken. It can be kept, tightly wrapped, for 2-3 days, or it can be frozen.
Gruyere Plait
Absolutely fabulous eaten slightly warm with lashings of butter, and makes the ultimate open sandwich spread with basil pesto butter and topped with ham or prosciutto.
Basic Bread Rolls
These may be baked for a shorter time, then open-frozen, before putting into packets, and reheated when necessary in a hot oven.
