From Alejandro Alonso Echeverría 1º ESO:
I choose Belgium because it´s a country I visited on holydays and I like it.
The Atomium building and the Manneken Pis statue are one of the most famous things to visit.
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Belgian Comics are famous around the world, with characters like Tintin, The Smurfs (Pitufos) and Lucky Luke. A curiosity is that they are on the Belgium´s new passport. You can learn about history of Belgian comics at the Brussels Comic Museum
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Belgian cuisine
Traditional dishes from Belgium are mussels and fries. Fries are the more I like, but it´s difficult to cook because you need and special beef tallow so I decided to cook Belgian waffles that are one of the best famous Belgian Sweets.
Here’s a recipe for Liege waffles
Ingredients:
-100 ml of milk
-10 grams baking powder
-250 gr wheat flour
-30 gr white or brown sugar
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-1 egg
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-150 gr melted butter
Instructions:
- Pour the baking powder into the mild milk. Stir with a spoon to dissolve and let it rest for at least 10 minutes
- In a bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and salt
- Then add the vanilla extract, the egg, and the mixture of milk and baking powder
- Mix everything very well until you have homogeneous dough.
- Next, add the butter, continue mixing for about 5 minutes, until you get very soft and sticky homogeneous dough.
- Cover the bowl with a clean, dry cloth and let the dough rest for one to two hours to increase the volume.
- Pour the pearl sugar into the bowl and mix with a spoon or spatula until it is well distributed.
- Take portions of dough of about 80 grams each and form balls.
- Now preheat the Waffle maker to medium-high heat and when it reaches the temperature, place the portions of dough inside. Close the waffle maker and wait about 4 or 5 minutes. Open it and if they are golden brown, you can take them out.
- Carefully remove the waffle from the waffle maker
- Serve your waffles warm with your favorite toppings, like syrup, whipped cream, or fresh fruit
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