Horlicks Doggie Cookies

I saw Precious Moments' Horlicks Doggie Cookies recipe last year and was attracted to it. So it's a must-do recipe for this year's Chinese New Year. Since I'm meeting my brother's family for reunion lunch today, I decided to made these for them this morning. Hope they like them.

Ingredients

180g butter (she recommended Golden Churn) - softened
80g Horlicks
100g chocolate chips
200g top flour
25g cornflour
25g milk powder
Koko Krunch

Method

1 Sift the flour, cornflour and milk powder.

2. Cream the butter and Horlicks for 3 minutes at low speed. Do not overbeat. (I used hand whisk to beat till just creamy)

3. Add the sifted flour and beat for about one minute to form a dough.

4. Wrap the dough with cling wrap and chill the dough for 15-30 minutes.

5. Divide dough into 10g each. Embed 3 chocolate chips into each piece of dough and roll into a ball.

6. Insert 2 pieces of Koko Krunch to form the ears and 1 chocolate chip as the nose. And two chocolate rice for the eyes.

7. Bake at 140 °C for about 25 minutes.

8. Cool before storing.

Lemongrass Drink - More Than Just A Drink

It was a bright and sunny morning of a brand new year.

I love the smell of lemongrass and having a packet of lemongrass that we bought from NTUC Finest still lying in the refrigerator, I decided to prepare some lemongrass drinks. It is my first time, so I just estimate.

While enjoying my lemongrass drink, I searched the internet for lemongrass drink recipes and came across the following article (please click on the link to read the article):

Fresh lemon grass fields in Israel become mecca for cancer patients.

I knew lemongrass has medicinal effects and is an insect repellant, but I have never known that it can kill cancer cells. It got me excited and shall be sending that message to friends soon.

Ingredients

12 stalks of lemongrass
3 litres of water
4 TBS honey

Method

1. Cut the lemongrass into about 2 inches long and smash them.

2. Boil the lemongrass with 3 litres of water for about 30 minutes. (I put them inside the thermal pot and simmer for another 1 hour)

3. Strain the lemongrass drink and mix with honey. Enjoy it hot or cold.

The lemongrass drink recipe at Jas' Kitchen added pandan leaves too. I will try that recipe next time.

Additional note:

On the following week, I made another round of lemongrass drink. This time, I added pandan leaves, cut 7 large stalks of lemongrass into halves and pounded them, and then boiled with honey rock sugar (石蜂糖) and about 6 litres of water. It was very good.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

May this new year bring abundant hope, joy and peace, great opportunities and blessings to you and your family.