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so i have to do a venezuelan recipe for my spanish class over the weekend, and i found one, but i need some help with it. i dont understand what some of it means. i looked up what some of it could mean, cant find anything though. im making something called 'apple cake,' and i dont understand some of the directions.
heres the basic recipe:

1- peel apples, chop in half and boil with 3cps of water, cloves smell and 1 cup sugar. (cloves smell? whats that?!)
2- remove apples when they are cooked syrup and reduce by half. put aside.(does that mean cooked into a syrup? what does it mean reduce by half?)


4-place dough into mold enmantecado and place the halves on top of apples(i thought the halfs were the apples?). bringing the oven hot for 20 minutes (is the cake in? what temperature??), remove, place half the syrup and bake for 10 min. remove from oven and put up remaining syrup

please help me out if you have any thoughts as to what could possible answer my questions. thanks

Answer 1

step 2. you boil the syrup until it has reduced in volume by 1/2. If you start with two cups you gently boil until you have one cup :)

you skipped step three.

step 4. I am assuming that enmantecado is some type of a verb. What I would guess is that you are taking the dough and breaking it in half and putting that with the apples.

It looks like you used an online translation service. "Clove smell" is not an ingredient. But it could be a miss translation. If I could see the recipe in spanish I could help you better. If you edit and put the recipe in it's entirety you will probably get better answers.

It is better to translate word by word if you are unsure of the meaning of the passage. Try this site for help with unfamiliar words http://www.spanishdict.com/

Answer 2

Cloves smell = maybe they are referring to clove oil or essense. (I recommend you try substituting about 1/4 tsp ground cloves)

Remove the apples when they are "soft" and cook the remaining syrup down until it is reduced by half.

For the remaining instructions: I will give it a good guess:

I think the normal temperature for a cake in a hot oven is about 350 degrees F.

I don't know what kind of mold they are talking about. You may need some help from a native speaker for that.

I think you should place half of the batter in the cake pan (mold) and then the apples; bake for 20 minutes. Remove it and spoon 1/2 of the syrup over it and bake another 10 minutes and ladle the rest of the syrup over it.

I hope this helps. You are right it is a bit confusing.

Oh, I just realized, manteca is buttered. I think they mean a buttered mold or cake pan.

Answer 3

1 - add enough cloves that you smell them before they are cooking (about 1/4 cup fresh package or 1/2 cup if the cloves are older)

2 - as the apples boil they will shrink when they have reached 1/2 the original size you should remove them so they don't overcook and turn the syrup bitter. (cut apples and reserve for filling)

4 - a dough mold is what they are referring too you place the dough (rolled into a circle) in the mold and fill 1 side (1/2 of the mold) with chopped apples and a little syrup - fold mold over to seal (this is basically an empanada - a Latin version of an apple turnover) when they are golden brown remove from oven and top with syrup -serve hot.

Since you are serving your class though it may be difficult to keep them hot for serving. I would recommend this simple drink instead:
Egg-nog like drink (Ponche Crema)
Makes about four liter size bottles
6 eggs
Peel of a lime
Stir the eggs. Please Don't beat them. 3 cans of sweetened condensed milk
2 cans evaporated milk
Alternately pour in cans of milk into the eggs. Remove lime peel and include:
1 bottle brandy or rum (liter or so)
Place on low heat and gently stir. Add:
1 oz.(28.4 g) bitters.
Stir constantly over low heat (20-25 min.) till thickens. Strain, bottle and refrigerate.


Good Luck!

Answer 4

Cloves-maybe a few while cooking apples

Keep syrup after you have cooked the apples, pour 1/2 of syrup on dough when baking, 1/2 goes on cake when it is finished cooking

A hot oven is 400 degrees
I hope this helps, if not post the entire recipe ok!!?

Answer 5

well i honestly do not know what it is talking about fully....
so i am sorry i cant help you there...
BUT.. i had to do a venezualan recipe also for my class and i chose marquesa... its just like an oreo cheesecake and easy to make! i will show u the recipe.. just an idea :)

1¼ hours 20 min prep
Change to: pie US Metric

1 1/2 cups of crushed Oreo cookies
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 ready-to-use chocolate graham wafer pie crust

1. Mix all ingredients together, except crushed Oreo cookies, with an electric mixer on medium speed.
2. After thoroughly mixing ingredients add crushed cookies and stir into batter with spoon until well mixed.
3. Pour into pie crust.
4. Bake at 350 degrees until center is almost set or 40 to 45 minutes.
5. Cool and refrigerate.

Answer 6

my favourite is Honey Mustard Mozzarella Chicken INGREDIENTS four skinless, boneless bird breast halves three/four cup honey one million/two cup ready mustard lemon pepper to style four slices bacon, reduce in part one million cup shredded mozzarella cheese DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 375 levels F (one hundred ninety levels C). Place the bird breast halves in a baking dish, and drizzle lightly with honey and mustard. Sprinkle with lemon pepper. Bake bird 25 mins within the preheated oven. Top every breast part with two bacon slice halves, and sprinkle lightly with cheese. Continue baking 10 mins, or till bird juices run transparent, bacon is crisp, and cheese is bubbly.