Although people might assume that making and eating cookies is a universal custom around the world, the reality is that many people prepare and enjoy a wide variety of sweets with unique ingredients. Therefore, if you invited me into your home for dinner and wanted to offer me a traditional sweet from your country, what would it be and what ingredients are used to prepare it? Share your culture with us!
Randall
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I likes cookies because it has a sweet teste .It prepare easy.
ReplyDeleteReally dude, and Cooking your own cookies is much cheaper than buying.
DeleteWell, I do not specialise in food and the language describing the sweets that we consume in my homeland might be quite problematic and technical to translate into English. Let's say that if if I invited you for dinner, I would have given you a slice of what we call 'The King's Cake' ('Bolo reio' in Portuguese). I don't know if my translation into English is correct but anyway, 'bolo' in Portuguese means 'cake' in English, and 'reio' means 'king'. It's a cake containing bits of dried fruits and bits of sugar. It's delicious but make sure you take care of your teeth if you do not want to have tooth decay or tooth cavity.
ReplyDeleteHello. In my city is commom and tasteful dessert, called Milk Chesse. The ingredients are 1 litter of milk, 12 eggs, sugar ( i´m not sure how much) and some raisins. First , you must put milk ,eggs and sugar in a mixer, and mix then. This is baked about 1 hour. You must wait until it ´s cool, and then put it in the refrigerator.
ReplyDeletechocolate chip cookies is one of my favorite cookies, there are variety cookies in my homland, one kind of the cookie is called "taosu", tast is not very sweet, but it is really delicious. I don't know how much each ingredients should be, probably ingredients are eggs, sugger, milk, flour, corn oil. mix them into a mix bowel, there are sunflower seeds or almonds or sasame on the top of every cookies, you can put anything that you like, than bake them in oven at 375 degree about 45 minutes .
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ReplyDeleteI was just searching about brazilien sweet and I found that Brigadeiro is a tipycall Brazilian sweet. I didn't know about it, althout I am Brazilian. Wow!! Brigadeiro is delicius and to bake this you need: 1 can sweetend condensed milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 4 tablespoon cocoa, chocolatte sprinkles and paper cups. :)
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ReplyDeleteI love chocolat chips cookies, and I enjoyed a lot listening to the conversation, I could understand everything.
Well, I am from Portugal (West Europe)and here we have one dessert/pastry that we love so much, it's the Custard Tart (Pastel de Nata) and it's a Portuguese egg tart pastry. To bake this pastry you got to have these ingredients; cream, sugar, gems, flour, pastry and eggs.
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ReplyDeleteI come from Viet Nam.In my country,Trung cake is the most farmous. When I was young, My grandfather and I always caked them for Tet holiday. So To day, I should tell you how Trung cake bake. The ingredients are follow for 10 pieces Trung cakes
01 kg of rice
0,2kg of bean
0,4 kg of pork meat
pich of salt, pepper
50 leaves of banana ( in my country, we use Rong leaves but maybe your countries have not, you can use leaves of banana instead)
You have to put rice and bean on water during two hours. Then, you use some leaves of banana to cover rice, bean, pork meat. You make them square for one cake. When you finish, you don't forget to put them in boiling water about 12 hours.
It is delicious. If you don't believe, you will try to do.
Thank you!
Hi everyone! I like the cookies ,I remembered when was in the University, I sold cookies
ReplyDeleteIm learning english languaje its interesting to learn with common situations in our life
As to Russia we have our own recipie of pastila and it makes from apples, sugar and special natural gelling stuff called "agar agar". It is very sweet and due to its healthy always recommended by nutricionists to somebody who want to lost waith and have to restrict sweets at all.
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ReplyDeleteI am zero in cooking but I love to eat.
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don't forget that there are a pleasure that lasts a lifetime: eating
ReplyDeletehi，everyone,i am from china.In my country,most people usually do not like sweets,so we seldom bake cookies.actually,most people do not know how to cook and we do not have cooking utensils,such as oven.i think china is very special nationality.
ReplyDeleteFor me, better find easy and healthy cookie recipe. So I could enjoy any time, even I don't need to wait someone open service until morning. If I want to eat cookies at midnight
ReplyDeleteFor me, better find easy and healthy cookie recipe. So I could enjoy any time, even I don't need to wait someone open service until morning. If I want to eat cookies at midnight
ReplyDeleteHere in Guatemala we have a dessert that calls rellenito. It makes with cooked a mashed bananas, we take a little of this mixture and put refried bean in the center, then we do a ball and fried it. When is ready, we spread sugar in the top and eat it. Yummy
ReplyDeleteHello, I'm from Brazil, but I am living in Vancouver CA now, in my state Minas Gerais (BR) we have a snacke called Pão de queijo (Cheese brad), It is really good, usully we use cheese, flour, milk, oil and eggs.
ReplyDeleteHe in Canada you can find it with different flavors, like garlic, tomater, jalapeno.
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Hello, Im from Mexico, in my country we have a lot of varieties on food and desserts, but one of the most popular dessert its called "Rice with milk" (Arroz con leche), maybe on english it does'nt hears so appetizing, but it is.
ReplyDeleteYou need:
1 cup of rice
6 cups of milk
cinnamon
½ cup of sugar
1 can of condensed milk
½ teaspoon of vanilla
Hello I'm from Mexico, in my country we have a lot of varieties of food and desserts, but one of the typical dessert in my country is called "Rice with milk", maybe on english it doesn't sounds appetizing, but it is.
ReplyDeleteYou need:
1 cup rice
6 cups milk
cinnamon
½ cup sugar
½ condensed milk
½ teaspoon vanilla
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ReplyDeleteI have a old fashioned 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies
-1 cup sugar
-1 cup peanut butter
-egg preheat oven 350 degrees
I don't like sweets y rather salt snacks, sweet things make me feel uncomfortable, I like empanadas, salteñas, those kind of things that have a many spicy and strange ingredients that give meals different flavors and colors, latinoamerican people enjoy to experiment with any kind of ingredients, they are very creatives, so when you want to eat something intense try latinoamrerican snacks and dishes...
ReplyDeleteHello everyone, in Italy and mostly in Toscana we have the cookies called ricciarelli. The ingredients are very simple:almonds,sugar and white eggs.They are so delicious but not so healthy:)))
ReplyDeleteHello everyone, I'm from Warsaw and i love cooking and baking. My favourite cake is brownie. It is a simple recipe but taste amazing, i'm sure that everyone loves chocolate. Regards from frozen Poland
ReplyDeletehello, people. let me tell you about Korean custom regarding dinner. Actually, we don't prepare any cookies for party or dinner. Instead of that, we usually prepare rice cake. It's a kind of our tradition. Especially for birthday party and national holiday. There are a variety of rice cakes which include distinct ingredient like ground pumpkins, red beans and so on. Because it is hard to cook at home, we usually order it to rice cake shop. Fortunately, there are a lot of rice cake shops in Korea.
ReplyDeleteWell Randall, if you have money to visit Vietnam, you should eat our traditional sweet, Mung Beans cake! It is simple and delicious,although it is quite messy. The ingredients are not many, it is just a lot of mung beans, a cup of water and flour.I think you should try it because it is just simply delicious.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone,I love cooking it's my favorite. Actually, I just started cooking four years ago depending most on YouTube and mam's experience .Now I can cook different kinds of food and desert but the best is baklava and klichah which are kind of our tradition.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, I love to do cookies and I have a receipt to do cinnamon cookies, sometimes I put in it condensed milk because that gives it a delicious sweetest flavor.
ReplyDeleteMy dad usually prepares biscuits and cakes and I learn of his steps to do delicious snacks.
I prefer to do cookies because I can put chocolate chips and I can do figures.