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Taai 02

Taai Taai 02 comes together with Liquid Honey, Patent Flour, Reye Flour, Cookie Herbs, and Fine Cornflour. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

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Ingredients

• 250 g
• 250 g
• 500 g
• 20 g
• 1 tbsp

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Put the honey, treacle, aniseed and water in a pan to the boil whilst stirring.

2. 2

   In the meantime mix the patent flour, rye flour and the cookie herbs.

3. 3

   Rub the contents in the pan which has been left to cool off first, through a sieve into the mix of the flour and herbs.

4. 4

   Mix thoroughly together.

5. 5

   Leave the contents in a pan (covered with a cloth) for a least a week in cool place.

6. 6

   After a week: Mix the fine cornflour and baking powder and sieve this into the pan containing the week earlier prepared ingredients.

7. 7

   Add the buttermilk and thoroughly stir the final mix.

8. 8

   You will now need some kind of mould to pour the mix into to produce the figureshaped Taai Taai cookies.

9. 9

   In The Netherlands these moulds can be bought.

10. 10

    They are usually cut into a wooden plank.

11. 11

    Each plank containing about 6 figures.

12. 12

    Similar moulds would do.

13. 13

    Oil the moulds and fill them with (part of) the mix.

14. 14

    Remove excess from the mould with a knife to make a clean, flat surface.

15. 15

    Empty contents of the mould onto a flat, buttered, baking (oven) tray and brush with some milk.

16. 16

    Bake in pre-heated oven of 220 degrees (centigrade) for about 30 minutes to a nice dark golden brown.

17. 17

    Let them cool off and keep for at least another week before consuming them.