{"id":76424,"date":"2014-12-24T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=76424"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:05:35","slug":"treat-family-christmas-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/24\/treat-family-christmas-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Treat your family to a christmas classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t love tipsy tart?<\/p>\n<p>This recipe for these sweet, sticky and boozy brandy puddings is brilliant.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Preparation time: 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking time: +\/- 25 minutes.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>You will need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the pudding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>250g of dates, chopped<\/li>\n<li>175ml of boiling water<\/li>\n<li>5 ml bicarbonate of soda<\/li>\n<li>15 ml butter<\/li>\n<li>85g\/100 ml of castor sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>225g\/375 ml of cake flour<\/li>\n<li>15 ml baking powder<\/li>\n<li>pinch of salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For the syrup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300g\/375 ml of brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>300ml of water<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup of brandy<\/li>\n<li>5 ml of butter<\/li>\n<li>5 ml of vanilla essence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>You will then:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the pudding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 180\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Mix the chopped dates, boiling water and bicarbonate of soda.<\/p>\n<p>Beat butter and castor sugar together, using an electric beater, until light and fluffy.<\/p>\n<p>Add egg and beat until creamy.<\/p>\n<p>Sift dry ingredients and fold into the egg and sugar mixture alternately with the dates.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer the mixture into 6 greased small foil pie dishes and bake in a preheated oven for +\/- 25 minutes or bake in a medium baking dish for 35- 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the syrup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bring the sugar, water and brandy to the boil then add the butter.<\/p>\n<p>Allow to cool and add the vanilla essence.<\/p>\n<p>Remove tarts from the oven when ready and pierce a few holes into each one with a cake tester.<\/p>\n<p>Pour syrup over the tarts immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Serving suggestions: serve hot with double thick cream.<\/p>\n<p>Recipe: Bits of Carey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5b414173ca9ad09a02478c7e9cd0b96e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticky brandy puddings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":76425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[1885,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-76424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Christmas","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}