The Unofficial Harry Potter CookBook(can be found in Amazon)

Hello, everyone!! Today, I will write down some of the foods I found highly interesting to make from ‘The Unofficial Harry Potter CookBook’ (which can be found in amazon). Of course, I haven’t made all of them, but I think it’ll be fun if you try it out at home.

Chapter Three: Treats from the Train

Pumpkin Pasties

Ingredients.

Pastry crust: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 5 tablespoons cold butter, cut into chunks, 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening, chilled and cut into chunks, 4-6 tablespoons ice water

Filling: 1 cup canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1: Place the flour, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse a few times to combine. Scatter the butter and shortening over the flour mixture. Pulse about 15 times until the mixture resembles coarse yellow meal, with no white powdery bits remaining.

2: Transfer the mixture into a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle 4 tablespoons of cold water over the mixture. Toss the mixture together with a spatula until it starts clumping together. If it’s too dry, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time (better too wet than too dry). Gather the dough into a ball and pat it into a disk. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for at least 1 hour.

3: Combine the pumpkin, sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Mix well. Preheat the oven to 400F. Roll out the dough 1/8-inch thick. Use a saucer to cut out 6-inch circles.

4: Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of filling in the center of each circle of dough. Moisten the edges with water, fold the dough over the filling, and crimp with a fork to seal the edges. Cut slits to make vents. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 30 minutes or until browned.

Makes 6 pasties

Chapter Four: Recipes from a Giant and an Elf

Rock cakes

Ingredients: 2cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 stick (8 tablespoons) cold butter cut into chunks, 1 large egg, 1/3 cup whole milk, 1 cup raisins

1: Preheat the oven to 350F and grease and flour a large cookie sheet. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a large mixing bowl. With your fingertips, rub the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture reaches the consistency of wet sand.

2: Beat the egg together with the milk and pour it into the flour-butter mixture. Fold it together using a spatula to form a stiff dough. Fold in the raisins. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheet.

3: Bake for 25 minutes or until the bottoms are golden rotating the pan midway through baking.

Makes 12

For rock-hard rock cakes like Hagrid’s, just bake them for too long and eat them a week later at your own risk!

I only write two of the recipes because even that took me a long time to do. Well, if someone did see my blog post, and did make one of these recipes, well then Dig in!!!