Simple Lemon Squares

Ingredients:
Crust:
1 cup butter, melted
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt

Topping:
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups granulated sugar
4 Tablespoons sifted flour
5 Tablespoons lemon juice
1-1/2 Tablespoons grated lemon rind

Procedure:
Crust:
1. Mix ingredients and pat into bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan.
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Topping:
1. Mix above ingredients and pour on top of baked crust.
2. Put back into 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes.
3. When cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into squares.

Makes 24 small lemon squares. Simple right?

Puto Bumbong

Ingredients:
5 kilos malagkit / galapong or glutinous rice
1 cup ordinary rice
1 tablespoon of lilac / purple / violet food color
1 kilo shredded mature coconut / niyog
margarine
sugar

Procedure:
1. Mix the glutinous rice, ordinary rice and food coloring.
2. Soak it in water for four hours.
3. Slowly grind using a stone or manual grinder. Do not to put too much water while grinding so the mixture will not become too sticky.
4. Put everything on cotton cloth. Tie the corners of the cloth and let it drip until all excess water is removed.
5. Let stand overnight.
6. The next day, mix and crush the ingredients using your hand.
7. Boil some water in a steamer. Cover it with the custom-made puto bumbong cooker.
8. Grease the cylinders with margarine then half-fill them with the milled ingredients.
9. Cover the other end of the cylinder with cotton cloth and fit the opposite end into the nozzle.
10. Steam will come out of the cylinder when the puto bumbong is cooked.
11. Before removing the puto bumbong from the cylinder, invert the cylinder to ensure proper cooking.
12. To remove the puto bumbong from the cylinder, hold it in a vertical position and gently tap it out over a plate. Put the sugar and freshly grated coconut as toppings.

Serves ten people.

Pastillas De Leche

Ingredients:
3 cups fresh milk
6 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons butter
10 tablespoons full-cream powdered milk
1 cup sugar for rolling pastillas

Procedure:
1. Mix milk and sugar heat to a boil until it turns into a paste.
2. Mix in butter and powdered milk.
3. Roll into small cylinders over sugar.

Filipino Yema

Ingredients:
1 cup condensed milk
12 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter

Procedure:
1. Mix everything in a sauce pan.
2. Cook mixture under medium heat.
3. Stir until the mixture coagulates.
4. Let it cool.
5. Shape into desired shape (usually pyramids) and wrap in cellophane.