Andreasson's Recipes

Chocolate Cake
This you need:
  • 200 g dark chocolate
  • 200 g butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 dl sugar
  • 2,5 dl wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder

How to do it:

  1. Butter a 2 litre tin with removable bottom. Heat the oven to 225 C.
  2. Melt chocolate and butter in a thick-bottomed pan on low heat.
  3. Whip egg and sugar well.
  4. Mix flour and baking powder carefully.
  5. Carefully mix the somewhat cooled chocolate into the egg and sugar mixture.
  6. Carefully turn down the flour to make the mixture smooth. If you stir too quickly, the mixture will collapse.
  7. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake in oven for 12-15 minutes. The cake is not supposed to be completely baked.
  8. Serv the cake with some whipped cream or decorate it with whipped cream. The "unfinished" part in the middle is sensed as a good stuffing.

Make Your Own Detergent - Ashes Lye

Put two litres of ashes in a bucket.
Pour over 4-5 litres of hot water, stir
Pick up floating coal pieces.
Let rest over night to allow the fluid to clear and particles to sediment.
Pass through a strainer.

The sediment can be used once more, or it can be used as fertiliser in your garden. Ashes from hardwood tree is better than ashes from pine trees, birch and beech is the best.

At laundry time, pour the lye into the detergent box. You have to find the correct amount yourself. The darker the fluid is, the less amount is required. If it looks like tea, a few deciliters will suffice, if it looks like applejuice, use half a litre.