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South African Style Lamb Chops
Beef Casserole
Spaghetti Bolognaise
Sausage & Chilli Casserole
Victoria Sponge Cake
Lemon Curd Cheesecake

 
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South African Style Lamb Chops (Serves 6)
Ingredients
6 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
6 tablespoons Tomato sauce
2 teaspoons Mustard Powder
2 teaspoons Farmhouse Products Ground Ginger
6 Lamb Loin Chops
2 teaspoons Butter
Oil
4 tablespoons Farmhouse Products Apricot Preserve
1-2 Sliced Onions
1/2 Pint of Cream
 
Preparation
Mix the Worcestershire sauce, Tomato sauce, Mustard powder, and Ground ginger together.
Trim the chops and allow them to marinade in a shallow dish for a couple of hours.
In a frying pan, heat the butter (with a little oil to prevent burning) and add the onion, Farmhouse Products Apricot Preserve and cream. Stir until smooth.
Add the marinating sauce from chops, heat and then add the lamb chops.
Cook with lid on until chops are throughly cooked and tender. Serve with Rice.
   
Beef Casserole (Serves 4 approx.)
Ingredients
1 jar Farmhouse Products beef and ale with mushroom casserole cooking sauce 500g
Braising (or stewing) steak 700 grams
3 medium potatoes
3 medium carrots
1 large onion
4 tablespoons oil
2 bay leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
 
Preparation
Remove excess fat from the meat and cut into 2cm (1 inch) cubes.
Peel and slice the carrots.
Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes.
Peel the onion, slice and roughly chop.
Pour two tablespoons of oil into the frying pan and heat to a medium high temperature and add the meat cubes.
Cook for a couple of minutes until the cubes of meat are browned on all sides. Turn and stir the meat while it is cooking. Place the meat in a casserole dish or pan.
Start the oven pre-heating by turning it to 150°C / 300°F / Gas Mark 2.
Pour the remaining oil into the frying pan, heat to a medium heat and add the onions. Fry them, turning constantly for about 5 minutes until they are soft.
Stirring constantly, slowly pour the sauce over the onions and bring the mixture to the boil, then turn the heat to low.
Fill the empty jar with ¾ of water and shake (with lid on!) and add to mixture.
Add the potatoes and carrots and mix well with a spoon.
Place the casserole dish in the pre-heated oven (150°C / 300°F / Gas Mark 2) for 2½ hours. If cooking on the hob, turn the heat to low.
   
Spaghetti Bolognaise (Serves 4 approx.)
Ingredients
Beef Mince 500g
1 Jar Farmhouse Products bolognaise sauce
Sliced mushrooms (optional)
1 Chopped onion (optional)
1-2 tbs Olive oil
 
Preparation
Heat oil in pan.
Add the beef mince and fry until brown whilst occasionally stirring.
Add mushrooms and onion to fry with mince whilst it is browning if required.
Stir in Farmhouse Products bolognaise sauce. Simmer for 20 minutes.
   
To cook spaghetti
Submerge spaghetti into slightly salted boiling water. Follow guidance on pack of spaghetti.
   
Sausage & Chilli Casserole (Serves 4 approx.)
Ingredients
3 tbsp Olive oil
2 Large red onion, sliced
8 Cumberland sausages
1 jar of Farmhouse Products chilli con carne
 
Preparation
Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the onions and sausages until browned all over.
Add Farmhouse Products chilli con carne sauce, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
Season to taste and serve on a bed of rice.
Cook rice per packet instructions.
   
Victoria Sponge Cake
Ingredients
175g unsalted butter
175g caster sugar
3 Eggs, beaten
175g self-raising flour
 
Jam (filling)
3 tbsp Farmhouse Products jam (Any variety though traditionally strawberry or raspberry)
500ml double cream
 
Preparation
Set the oven to 180C/gas 4. Lightly butter two sandwich tins, each with a diameter of 20cm.
Cream together the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, and then slowly add the beaten egg.
Fold in the sifted flour and spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tins.
Bake for 20 minutes. Leave to cool and then remove from the tins.
Whip the cream until thick, do not over whip.
Spread the jam liberally onto the top of one of the sponges on top of which spread over the whipped cream.
Place the remaining sponge on top and dust liberally with icing sugar to serve.
   
Lemon Curd Cheesecake (Serves 6-8 approx.)
Ingredients
10 Digestive biscuits
50g Melted butter
Farmhouse Products lemon curd
250g Mascarpone cheese
300g Soft cheese
Zest & juice of 2 small lemons
 
Preparation
Crush the biscuits and mix the butter thoroughly together.
Grease a flan dish with a little butter and press the mixture firmly into the base.
In a pan, juice 1 lemon and mix with the corn flour into a smooth paste.
Add to the paste the zest of 1 lemon, a spoon of sugar and the Farmhouse Products lemon curd and mix.
Bring to the boil whilst stirring and simmer for a minute then pour into a bowl and allow to cool.
In a separate bowl mix together the remaining ingredients including the zest and juice of the left over lemon.
Add to this mixture half of the cool lemon curd mix and stir thoroughly.
Spread onto the biscuit base.
Pour the remainder of the lemon curd mix onto the top and use a cocktail stick to create a marbled effect by slightly scouring whilst dragging over the top.
Why not have an additional design by creating a paper cut out shape and sprinkling icing sugar over the top leaving the pattern behind?