Recipe of homemade "zebra" cake.

Ingridients:

Flour-450 g
Sugar-300 g
Eggs-2
Sour cream-100 g
Maionese-2 table spoons
Milk-50 g
Sweet cream butter-100 g
Cocoa powder-4 table spoons
Nuts-3 table spoons
Salt-1/3 tea spoon
Baking powder-1 tea spoon

Mix sugar and butter in one bowl.
Add eggs. Mix all.
After add sour cream, maionese, salt, milk, and baking powder.
Add the flour, cocoa powder, and nuts.
You must make two different types of dough. One with cocoa powder and other simple.

Warm up oven 425 F. 400 F stay "zebra" cake on 30 mintunes. After switch off oven on 5-6 hours in it.

Bon Appetit!

Handmade ideas for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Part two.

Middle Ages.

Middle Ages (Medieval) was one of the hard periods in human history. In Europe, people forgot many important things such as science, civilization, washing, and etc.

Medieval period was during the fifth to fifteenth centuries. The New World still wasn't opened, Africa and Asia were first expericing civilization.

In this hard time, religion appeared. People began to believe in one God instead of many. Artists painted pictures and icons with new saints.

Also, during Middle Ages, people expericed a terrible disease. The bubonic plague called the "Black Death". This horrible ill killed several million people.

Church was very important for medieval people. They did everything to live in heaven. People didn't notice things which happened around.

In Middle Ages human survived crisis. It took several years to recover.

P.S. After Medieval period, began a new part of human history. But I will tell you about it next time.

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Purchase sweet chocolate.

A cup of coffee.

Ancient Rome.

Ancient Rome was one of the great civilizations in Ancient History. It was founded in 753 BC by Romulus and Remus. The legend says these twin brothers were fed by a she-wolf.

Official language in Ancient Rome was a Latin. Now it is used in science. For example, medicine, and mathematics. The country contained central and South Europe and part of North Africa.

In Ancient Rome, people believed in many different Gods. Roman religion has similar things with Greek but is still different.

Ancient country participated in Punic Wars. Roman soldiers had special clothes for it.

Rome had own laws, system of education, family customs, cuisine, and etc. Some of them still exist in our life.

In Ancient times Rome was a big and great country. Today Rome is the capital of Italy. The name was left for European city. This is studied by archeologists and students. Because it's very interesting!

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Handmade ideas for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Part one.