Month: November 2025

Home-made Mentsuyu

The image shows a glass jar filled with a dark liquid, labeled "Mentsuyu Geconcentreerd 2:1." The jar has a white lid with a red arrow and the word "OPENING" on it. The jar is sitting on a black, textured surface, likely a stovetop. In the background, there's a blurred view of kitchen utensils hanging on a rack and a Miele appliance.

Ingredients:

  • half a cup of sake
  • 1,25 cup mirin
  • 1 cup dark soy sauce. The saly type, not the sweet one.
  • 1 piece kombu 14 x 18 cm
  • 1 cup katsuobushi or bonitoflakes

How to make:

  1. Add everything in a saucepan
  2. SLOWLY bring it to a boil on medium heat
  3. Simmer on low for 5 minutes
  4. Pour through a sieve into another container

Done.

Remember that this is a concentrated brew, so use two parts water and one part Mentsuyu. If you use this for Tonkotsu, use 30-40 ml per bowl of 250-300 ml of broth.

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[Baking] Egg Yolk cake

Foxes like eggs, and sometimes I have a few yolks left from another thing i made. This time it were left overs from a coconut macaroon cookie recipe.

The image shows a freshly baked loaf of cake in a black rectangular baking pan, lined with parchment paper. The bread has a golden-brown crust and is sitting on a black wire cooling rack. The background includes a glossy black surface, possibly a stovetop, and out-of-focus tableware.
This cake is, in fact, not a lie!

So here we go:

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 225 grams sugar
  • 110 grams water
  • 1 capful vanilla extract
  • 5 grams lemon zest
  • pinch of salt
  • 225 grams flour
  • 5 grams baking powder

Instructions

  • Line a 25 cm long cake tin with baking paper.
  • Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celcius.
  • Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together with a whisk.
  • Beat the egg yolks with the lemon zest for about 5 minutes until light, fluffy and thick.
  • Gradually add the sugar to the fluffy egg yolks and mix for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla extract and water while mixing slowly.
  • Stop mixing as soon as it is blended.
  • Sift the flour mixture into the mixer bowl.
  • Quickly fold the flour into the cake batter.
  • Pour the cake batter into the cake tin.
  • Bake in the centre of the oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
  • Allow the cake to cool completely before cutting.

 

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