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Ken and Rosa's Lime and Orange Cake from Sao Paulo

Green Lime Cake (Bolo de Limon) a la Rosa of Sao Paulo

Ingredients: can be made easily with a mixer

1.      4 eggs

2.      2 cups flour

3.      2 cups sugar

4.      1/2 cup oil

5.      1 pkg.lime jello

(Beat eggs, sugar and oil. Add lime jello dissolved in hot water. Add flour gradually. Add 1 tablespoon baking powder. Bake in Bundt pan lined with butter and flour. Bake 40 minutes or so. Turn out. Frost with condensed milk with the juice of 2 fresh limes.)

 

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Antonio's Brazilian Beringela, great eggplant salsa

Beringela

A Brazilian anti-pasto

First: slice 2 eggplants, then quarter into cubes.

Second: scatter in cake pan and cover with sea salt and a little olive oil.

Third: bake at 350 degrees for 20-3-0 minutes to dry the eggplant until quite soft.

Fourth: mix in chopped parsley, green onions.

Fifth: chop 2 cloves of garlic, a number of black olives, some green olives (as large as possible) mix in.

Sixth: add 1/2 cup of raisins.

Seventh: add 1/2 cup of olive oil, 1/2 cup white vinegar, and some sea salt.

Eighth: Put in plastic container in the fridge for 4 days, then serve.

Will keep fresh for several weeks.

From a Recipe of Rosa, from the Garcao family of Sao Paulo.

Taken 16 May, 2006

(other delicious Brazilian foods that I tasted are: Bolo con Fuba (cake with anise), Feijoada (a native stew of black beans, salt pork, bacon, chitlins (deep fried pork stomach), served with Caipirinha (cachaca) a mixture of lemon, sugar, pinga (white rum). Very strong, African-influenced national dish of Brazil.