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GillE:
I'm a huge fan of American cookery.  It's not all Big Macs - there's some food with big flavours and good nutritional value too.  Mind, you've got to admit that the 'Murricans know how to make mud pie, pecan pie, muffins, cheesecake...

Here's a recipe I hope everyone will try.  It's Lynette Baxter's barbecue sauce from her book, "The Best Of American Cookery".  It can be used as a fabulous marinade too:

110g (4oz) golden syrup
110g (4oz) tomato ketchup
1 onion, grated or finely chopped
30 ml (2tbspn) soy sauce
Juice of one lemon
5ml (1tspn) dry mustard powder
5ml (1tspn) cayenne pepper
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
15ml (1tbspn) sesame oil

Place all the ingredients into a pan and bring to the boil, stirring well to ensure they are well mixed.

Couldn't be simpler!

Simon:
Sounds yummy!  :)

Clive:
I have all the ingredients too!   8-)

GillE:

--- Quote from: Clive on June 15, 2010, 08:33 ---I have all the ingredients too!   8-)

--- End quote ---

The reason I bought the book is that Lynette Baxter is a Home Economics graduate from a British University who has gone on to see how American food can be made accessible to the British market.  The ingredients for all her recipes are readily available over here.  It's sad that such a very good book is so little known.

Here's another - children have great fun making these and they're lovely:

Snickerdoodles

Makes about 50 biscuits

350g (12oz) plain flour
5ml (1tspn) bicarbonate of soda
225g (8oz) butter, softened
250g (9oz) soft brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
75ml (5tbspn) caster sugar
15ml (1tbspn) ground cinnamon

Sift together the flour and bicarbonate of soda

Cream together the butter and sugar and then gradually beat in the eggs.  Add the flour and work into the butter mixture to make a smooth dough.  Wrap in cling film and chill for thirty minutes.

In a small bowl, mix together the caster sugar and cinnamon and tip on to a plate or tray.

Take small pieces of the dough and roll into sausages,about the thickness of a pencil and 10cm (4 inches) long.  Roll these in the sugar and cinnamon mix until well coated and then shape into rings, S-shapes and crescents.  Place on greased baking trays.

Bake at 190C/375F/ Gas Mark 5 for 10 -12 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown at the edges.  Transfer to cooling racks and store in an airtight container when quite cold.

Rik:
Thanks, Gill, duly copied. :thumbs:

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