Penang - Local cuisine 09o

Kueh Bahulu
Kueh bahulu is a perennial favourite among Malaysians of all ages. It's soft and slightly dry texture goes very well with black coffee. Kueh bahulu comes in different shapes, but the popular ones are the goldfish and the button (see picture right).
Ingredients
3 egg yolks
4 egg whites
100gm sugar
Half teaspoon vanilla essence
100gm wheat flour
1 tablespoon tapioca flour
Quarter teaspoon baking powder
Method
1. Sieve wheat and tapioca flour together with baking powder.
2. Whisk the eggs and sugar until stiff.
3. Add the vanilla essence.
4. Fold in 20grms of sifted flour with 100ml of egg batter. Preheat oven to 250 degrees centigrade. Lightly grease the mould (to prevent the bahulu from sticking) and spoon in batter. Do not fill to the top. Bake bahulu for about five minutes.
Alternatively, you can bake bahulu the traditional way – using charcoal fire. You have to place the hot coals on top of and under the mould.
Bahulu keeps quite well in an airtight container, but will harden with time.

About the cook
Elizabeth Agatha Cheah, affectionately known as Kak Liza (or Lizzie) by family and friends, has been cooking for as long as she can remember. Over the years, she picked up culinary skills, tips and recipes from friends and family – Liza is equally at home whether cooking Chinese, Eurasian or Malay dishes. Married to Salim and mother to three children, Kak Liza cooks all year round but is especially busy during holidays like Chinese New Year, Hari Raya and Christmas when she has to cook enough for her own family plus seven brothers and sisters, parents, 12 nieces and nephews, grandchildren, in-laws and numerous friends – in short, enough victuals to feed a Greek army battalion. Ever the perfectionist, Kak Liza revealed that she spent 15 years getting her ayam masak merah done right!

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