Spekkoek

Spekkoek (spekuk in Indonesian), also more popularly called (kue) lapis legit in Indonesia, is a Dutch-Indonesian layered cake. It was developed during colonial times in the Dutch East Indies and may have been based on Dutch cake recipes using local ingredients. The firm-textured cake is the Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) version of baumkuchen, but without a chocolate or sugar shell. It contains a mix of spices, such as cardamom, cinnamon, clove, mace and anise. The cake is very rich – a 20 cm × 20 cm (7.9 in × 7.9 in) cake can contain up to thirty egg yolks, 500 grams (18 oz) of butter, and 400 grams (14 oz) of sugar.

In Indonesia, the cake is popularly known as (kue) lapis legit, literally "delicious layers (cake)", because it consists of many thin layers of cake. As a good lapis legit has more than 18 layers, baking it is a very labour-intensive process requiring much patience. Each layer is made by pouring a small amount of batter from a cup into the baking tin, which is then put into an oven until the layer has turned golden from the heat. The tin is then removed from the oven and the process repeated to build up the remaining layers. Dutch ovens with a charcoal fire on top of the lid are said to produce the best results, while electric ovens are superior to gas ovens as cakes bake much faster in the former.

Where clove buds or cardamom seeds are difficult to find, bakers can use spekkoek powder as a replacement. Milling and mixing the spices before baking produces a cake with an excellent aroma. The ground spices must be sieved into the flour at least three times as the spice powder is very fine and tends to clump in the batter. In Indonesia, there are many varieties of lapis legit, including cakes containing almonds, cashew nuts, cheese, prunes or raisins, and even cakes flavoured with chocolate and pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius).

Lapis legit is enjoyed during Chinese New Year, Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas celebrations. It is also served or given as gifts during many local festivities such as at birthday parties and weddings. In the Netherlands, the sliced cake is traditionally served for dessert in rijsttafel.

Recipes for Spekkoek/lapis legit

Layer cake is delicious steady legit better sich for a snack accompanied with fresh tea warm. In addition, because it tastes good even better than a layer cake Surabaya (direct check of her recipes), sticky layer cake is very suitable and is often used as a dish Eid, Christmas or any party .. Please observe the info recipe how to make cake lapis legit following

 

Materials:

30 eggs, take yellow only
350 grams of fine sugar
½ Kilogram Butter Butter or alloys of Butter (300 grams) and margarine (200 grams)
100 grams of wheat flour
½ teaspoon vanilla powder
¼ cans sweetened condensed milk, any brand
1 tablespoon seasoning lapis legit (Spekkoek)


How to Make Cake Lapis Legit

1. Combine flour with 1 tablespoon Spekkoek, sifter. Set aside
2. Prepare a baking sheet square uk. 22 x 22 cm, the base with greaseproof paper and then rubbed use butter, Sprinkle flour. Set aside
3. Beat butter and butter or margarine butter blend with the help of a mixer until fluffy (color younger), combine condensed milk, stir well, and set aside.
4. Separately, whisk sugar, egg yolks and vanilla until fluffy, enter dough butter little by little, stirring constantly, add the flour in point 1 above and mix well
5. Prepare an open until the temperature is 160 degrees.
6. While it took 4 tablespoons of batter into the prepared pan, smooth to make a layer cake.
7. Bake using a small fire, use the fire from above until lightly browned (± 5 minutes).
8. Remove from grill, basting with a little butter, repeat the above steps to form a new layer until the dough runs out.
9. In the last batter, roasted with fire on down to about 10 minutes to mature evenly. Remove and let cool.

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY

Holiday. It felt jumbled when I heard that word. Happy, because holiday would made loose my activities for a moment and felt the air of freedom after 6 months full of activities I passed. Sad, because I would not often met my school friends who had been transformed into a comrade-in-arms. But this is time, which could not be denied to came.

                This holiday would I devided into 3 parts.

          1/3 part of my first holiday, I spent most of my time at home. For just reminded me of the existence of myself at home. As formerly, tidy up the room with my sister became my favorite agenda. We dismantled all existed cabinets in the bedroom that had crumbled during my activities in school, I rarely straightened. Because she had the day off as female university student, so she was happy to accompany me shopped stationery for school purposees in semester 2. We also shopped what people say “girl stuffs” hahaha. This is the first time for me indulged myself as a girl. 

Me and my friends photo.

            I also helped my mother’s work as a housewife. This time I worked without any comment and enjoy my activities. When I was at home, I occasionally open Biology book for just knowing what would I learned in semester 2. I also read some modules of Geology and Astronomy because Regoinal Science Olympiad would be held on 29^th January 2015, so I had to strengthen my preparations. 

             My cousin occasionally visited my home to play with me. My sister and I teach them to wrote and counted because they’re still in kindergarten. At the end, I drove my sister to bought a new handphone to Bandung Electronic Center and my father gave me a gift, a new bag. I am very pleased.

Me and my sister photo.

               

                   Another 1/3 part of my holiday, I use to socialized with people who are in my life. First, I held a small reunion with 3 friends while I am in Junior High School. We spent the day with watched Mery Riana movie and perpetuated our togetherness with photographed together. Then, I also cycled 17 km along with my schoolmates, Ghina Husni Fahira and Assyifa Dian Putri. We pedaled slowly, enjoying the bustle of the streets we passed. In the middle of the road, we stopped for a moment to bought our favorite food, meatballs. It made my holiday felt healthy. Another time, I went looking for a hotel with my family for a friend of my father who would stayed in this city that night, the four of us were heading to Jalan Cihampelas, but congestion which ensnare our car towards the city made us turn back and finally we found one hotel at Jalan Gatot Subroto. After that, my father took us to Alun-Alun Bandung who had just openend a few days ago. When arrived there, the beautiful green field has been filled with thousands of people. We would not be there then, finally my father intended to gave a birthday gift to my mother and bring us to one of the existed bag shop in Jalan Oto Iskandardinata. She looked very happy.

              1/3 part of the latter is the main character in this story. I used the rest of my holiday to prepared for my organization’s event, namely MUSYAWARAH BESAR 1 PERWAKILAN KELAS 61. Due to the organizer of this event is grade 10, I took part as coordinator for the event division. Our agenda before congress packed with lots of whole division meetings and organizer meeting in order for our first congress is run very well and full of totality. This congress would be held on December 7 to 9, 2015 in Villa Griya Cempaka, Sari Ater, Subang. We collected the money together in many ways, ultimately the money we needed had been collected. Me and several other organizer bought congress needed in traditional market and supermarket in the one day before the events. I really enjoyed the moment when we bargained to vey low market prices and in the end we won, yeay. We stored luggages congress to our friend’s house in Jalan Tongkeng. After that, we went home and prepared for tomorrow’s luggages. The next day, I woke up at 4 am and immediately take a bath, regardless of chilled to the bone. I was wearing my favorite red shirt and went to SMAN 3 Bandung to gathered with other participants. We went to villa by military truck at 8.30 am. During the journey, we were all singing, joking, and laughing together. After a long journey, finally we arrived in Villa at 10.30 am and tidy up our luggages. On the first day, we carried out the forum of MUSYAWARAH BESAR approximately 6 hours. During this forum, we evaluated our performance for 3 months back and planned our performance for 3 months soon. We took tahajud pray and obligatory pray together. There, I helped cooked and washed dishes. On the first day I slept at 11 pm and woke up at 3 am to took tahajud pray. On the second day, we carried out the forum to continued yesterday’s forum for approximately 2 hours 30 minutes. Then continued with water games in the pool at the villa courtyard. There are two kinds of swimming pool, there is a heated swimming pool and a cold water swimming pool. We played in the pool for about 2 hours. This is so much fun. At night, we carried out a barbeque with roasted corn, sausage and rabbit satay. Really the most excited moments. For some reason, the second day I slept at 1.30 am and woke up at 5.30 am. Gosh! I was oversleep. I quickly ahowered and cooked for breakfast. After that, I prepared to pakcked my luggages because we would checked out of the villa that day. After cheked out, we went to Cikole Tour Terminal to implemented outbound as the end of MUSYAWARAH BESAR series. We did outbound from 1.30 pm after lunch until 4 pm. We ended the day with a group photograph. 

PK's 61 togetherness

Perwakilan Kelas 61

                After that, we went to SMAN 3 Bandung and arrived at 6 pm. After reached SMAN 3 Bandung, we didn’t necessarily went home. There, me and my friend who be the cadre of PERWAKILAN KELAS 61 made an appointment and was given PERWAKILAN KELAS’ pin as our indentity. Alhamdulillah.

PK's pin

Yup, that is part 3 of 3. If one of this part was not there, then it is not a perfect holiday. But, because all of the parts were there and complementing each other, it is a PERFECT HOLIDAY.

Health is Wealth (a short moral story)

Health is Wealth

Once upon a time, there lived a generous and kind-hearted king. But, the people weren’t happy with their king. Because, the king was too lazy and would not do anything other than eating and sleeping.        He spent days and weeks and months in his bed either eating something or sleeping. He almost became inactive. The king became a potato couch and the people started to worry about the king. One day he realized that he couldn’t even move his body, unable to move his foot. He became very fat and his enemies made fun of him ‘fatty king’, ‘bulky king’ etc.        He invited specialized doctors from various parts of his country and offered them generous rewards to make him fit. Unfortunately, none could help the king gain his health and fitness. Since the king was very cordial to his fellow people, many suggested renowned doctors to help him. He spent enormously but everything went in vain.        One fine morning, a holy man, (Rishi) visited the region of the King. He heard about the ill-health of the king and told the minister to meet him at his place. When the minister met him, he informed the minister that he could easily cure the king. Hearing these promising words, the minister became very happy. He requested the king to meet the holy man to get rid of the ill health.        The holy man resided at a distant place. Since the king could not move his body, the fatty king asked the minister to bring the holy man to the palace, but the holy man refused and ordered to come to meet him.        After strenuous efforts, the king met the holy man. The holy man encouraged him and said he was good and very soon the king would gain his health. He asked the king to come for treatment every day from the next day of visit. Also the holy man told the king that he would treat the king only if he came on foot to his place.        The King was unable to walk even a few steps on the road, but accompanied by his followers, he reached the holy man’s place. Unfortunately, the holy man was not available there and his devotee requested the king to come and meet him the next day for treatment.        This was repeated for two weeks and the king never met the holy man, never had any treatment. Suddenly, the king realized that he felt a lot lighter, lost considerable amount of weight and felt more active than before. He realized the reason why the holy man asked him to reach his place by walking.        Very soon, the king regained his health, and the people were very happy in his kingdom.        The King had a lot of wealth, but no amount of wealth could make him healthy.        Health is Wealth!

Source : http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories.php

Amazing Stucture (in my opinion)

Amazing stucture (in my opinion)

In my opinion, there was many thought about amazing stucture in the world. But, I choose the amazing one, that is University of Glasgow in Scotland. Why do I choose University of Glasgow? My explaination will answer that question.

University of Glasgow is located in Glasgow, Scotland,  UK. This University has motto, that is Via, Veritas, Vita which means “The Way, The Truth, The life”. Establised in 1451 which means it is over five hundred and fifty years old. Wow!

University of Glasgow by Google map

Map of University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest English speaking university in the world. It is currently one of the top 100 universities in the world. The University of Glasgow is a top research university.  It is currently has 16000 undergraduate students from over 80 countries and 400 American students at any one time.

Gilmorehill Campus

The University is currently spread over a number of different campuses such as Gilmorehill campus, Garscube campus, and Dumfries campus. The main one is the Gilmorehill campus, in Hillhead. Gilmorehill campus was influenced by historical building in Europe. This Campus is really like Hogwarts in Harry Potter. Did you see?

 

University of Glasgow's Library

University of Glasgow

Student's dorminotory

Some of University of Glasgow’s graduate was become inspiring person such as Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, and many more.

Well, now you know why I choosed University of Glasgow :)