Yet again, it's Agios (St.) Fanourios Day and people have been coming to the site after searching for the Fanouropita recipe, which is the cake that is traditionally eaten today.
You just need to click here to get the recipe - enjoy!
Greek Fanouropita Cake for Agios (Saint) Fanourios Day
Yet again, it's Agios (St.) Fanourios Day and people have been coming to the site after searching for the Fanouropita recipe, which is the cake that is traditionally eaten today.
You just need to click here to get the recipe - enjoy!
How To Make Corfu Tzitzibira (Ginger Beer)
This is the recipe for Corfu Tzitzibira. When the British were on the island of Corfu in the first half of the 19th century, one of the things they introduced was ginger beer. After they left, it remained a traditional drink here and the name became tzitzibira.
It's a delightfully refreshing drink in the hot summer and also extremely healthy. Below is the recipe to produce 5 litres of tzitzibira - if you need to convert this to gallons and pints, then please go to the bottom of the page, where you'll find a Metric Converter.
You will need to use bottles that are either hard plastic or glass, with tightly sealing screw tops. If the bottles are light plastic, then they will expand during fermentation and will not be able to stand upright. Also, the bottles should preferrably be small - 200ml is ideal - as the larger they are, the fizzier they are when opened.
The fermentation process happens due to the sultana raisins that are included in the recipe.
Ingredients
5 litres water
900g sugar
150g ginger root
500g lemon juice
50g lemon flesh from inside of lemons
12 sultana raisins
Preparation
Peel the ginger and along with about ½ cup of water from the 5 litres grind well in the blender.
Heat 1½ cup of water from the 5 litres until it is lukewarm and melt the sugar in it.
In a heavy plastic or glass container (over 5 litres capacity) with a tightly-screwing lid put the water and the ginger, melted sugar, lemon juice, lemon flesh and sultanas.
Stir well and close the lid tightly.
Leave this for 34 hours, and during this period, unscrew the lid, stir well, and screw the lid back on 3-4 times.
At the end of the 34 hours, strain the liquid and transfer it into the bottles, making sure that you don’t fill them more than 3/5 full. Close the bottles tightly.
As a control, take a small bottle made of light plastic (e.g. a small water bottle) and fill it up to 3/5 full. This will expand with the fermentation and show you that it is ready.
Leave the bottles for 7 days at room temperature without moving or shaking them. At the end of this time fermentation will have taken place and the control bottle will have expanded fully as an indication.
Put the bottles into the fridge and they are ready to serve. They can stay in the fridge for 3 months.
If you've tried this recipe please rate it!
If you've tried this recipe please rate it!
Drink and Enjoy!
Test Your Knowledge Of Greece
Another quiz for you! This time you have a chance to test some of your general knowledge of Greece. Good luck!
Oxfam Interactive Map Shows Global Food Price Crisis
Oxfam published an interactive map today showing how poor communities across the world are being hurt by high and volatile food prices. They call it the food price pressure points map.
Since late 2010 food prices have been approaching an all time high. sending tens of millions of people into poverty. The number of people without enough to eat is again rising and could soon again top one billion.
The map below shows the global pressure points, has a separate page with statistics, another with photos and finally a link to Oxfam's GROW campaign.
Now You Can Listen To Greek Recipes As Well As Read Them!
You may have noticed that we now have a button with 'listennow' at the top of each post. Clicking on this button enables you to listen to the post as well as read it. You can now go to any recipe you wish and listen to it. This could be especially useful to the visually impaired.
As well as this, you can also subscribe to the podcasts and listen to the recipes on the go on your iPod or MP3 player. The text content is also embedded into the audio file and can be viewed through the lyrics option of your iPod and on some other mp3 players.
To subscribe to the podcasts, just click on the button on the right sidebar of the blog - Subscribe To My Podcast or go directly here.
I have just started using this and hope that it can be a useful addition, although I am wondering about the slightly 'robotic' quality of the voice. However, I would appreciate any feedback you have about it - please let us know what you think. Do you think it is useful or not? What about the quality?
Happy Listening!
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