🍰 White Chocolate Mousse Cake 🍫 Prep Time: 1 hour | Cook Time: 45 mins | Chill Time: Overnight | Total Time: Approx. 2 hours (plus chilling) Yield: Serves 8-10 Ingredients: For the Cake Layer: 90g unsalted butter, softened 90ml vegetable oil 180g granulated sugar 2 tsp vanilla extract 3 eggs 180g self-raising flour 40ml whole milk For the Mousse: 300ml double cream 4 egg whites 1/2 tsp cream of tartar 50g granulated sugar 450g white chocolate 4 egg yolks 2 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp salt Directions: Bake the Cake: Mix butter, oil, sugar, and vanilla. Add eggs, flour, and milk to form a smooth batter. Bake until done and cool. P...

Carrot Cake Roll Ingredients: Carrot Cake: 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg 1/8 tsp ground cloves 3 large eggs 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2 Tbsp oil (canola or vegetable) 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups shredded carrots The BEST Cream Cheese Frosting: 8 oz cream cheese, cold 8 Tbsp (1/2 cup or 1 stick) butter, room temperature 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract Directions: Bake the Cake: Mix dry ingredients, whisk eggs with sugar, oil, and vanilla, then combine with dry mix and carr...

Springtime Strawberry Rhubarb Cheesecake Ingredients Crust: Crushed Graham Crackers: 9 crackers (one full sleeve) Melted Butter (salted): ½ cup Sugar: 1 tablespoon Cheesecake Filling: Softened Cream Cheese: 16 ounces Thawed Cool Whip: 8 ounces Powdered Sugar: 1 cup Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon Fruit Topping: Chopped Rhubarb: 2 cups, in ½-inch pieces Chopped Strawberries: 2 cups Sugar: ¾ cup Cornstarch: 3½ tablespoons Lemon Zest: From 1 lemon (about 1½ tablespoons) Lemon Juice: 1½ tablespoons Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon Instructions For the Crust: Grease an 8×8-inch baking pan with non-stick spray. Mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, ...

Oh mio dio, non mi era mai successo di non vedere i palazzi di Lewisham. What a fog!

Easy No-Bake Pistachio Cheesecake Recipe Preparation Time: 30 minutes Chilling Time: 4 hours Total Time: 4 hours 30 minutes Servings: 8-10 Ingredients: For the Crust: 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/3 cup melted unsalted butter 1/4 cup sugar For the Filling: 1 cup unsalted, shelled pistachios 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon gelatin powder 1 1/2 cups cold heavy cream 1 cup powdered sugar 8 ounces softened cream cheese 1 teaspoon vanilla extract For the Topping: Whole or chopped pistachios Optional: Whipped cream Instructions: Crust Preparation: Mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and sugar until well blended. Firmly...

The name Paracas derives from the Quechua para (rain) and acco (sand), meaning rain of sand. The area where this important Peruvian culture arose is in fact a huge desert located in the south of Lima, where there were probably frequent sandstorms in the past. It was precisely the exceptional aridity of the climate that allowed the conservation of an immense archaeological treasure whose study led us to reconstruct the life of this ancient people. Cemeteries known as Cavernas and Necropolis were found in the Cerro Colorado area. But when does this culture date back? The French archaeologist Federico Engels found the remains of some cultiva...

Quipu were a set of cords connected by knots used to store information by the Incas. They can also be defined as a kind of accounting registers. The first scholars who tried to understand, in a scientific way, how the Incas used the Quipu were Leland L. Locke of the Natural History Museum in New York and Erland Nordenskiold. From 1923 to 1925 they assembled and analyzed 68 Quipu specimens. Following information obtained from historians of the 16 th and 17 th centuries, it is clear that the Incas used a decimal numbering system made up of simple and compound nodes. The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in his Royal Commentaries (1609), reported th...

In the 1950s, the Belgian archaeologist Jean de Heinzelin completed a series of excavations near the village of Ishango, in what is now Congo, near the border with Uganda. He found various tools dating back to the Paleolithic, such as chipped stones, as well as remains of human bones and ancient hearths (charcoal), but the most important object that was recovered was a baboon bone bearing three sets of engravings on three sides. At the top of the bone, just ten centimeters long, there is a quartz crystal set. When the bone was subjected to carbon 14 testing it was discovered that it was carved 23 millennia before Christ. Initially, not mu...

Nowadays no serious scholar doubts that Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. However, there are still many pseudo-researchers who, based on false information or conjectures, claim that the famous navigator had a completely different origin. Let's first see what the great Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo wrote in his Historia General y Natural de las Indias: Cristobal Colon, according to what I was able to learn from men of his nation, was born in the province of Liguria, which is in Italy, and in which the city of Genoa is located: some say that he is from Savona, and others from a small village which i...

After the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the debate on the distribution of the discovered lands was gaining momentum in Europe. The Portuguese, dissatisfied with the previous treaties, pressured the government of Castile to take possession of more lands. In fact, in 1493, upon returning from Columbus's first voyage, the Spanish Pope Alexander VI had decreed in the bull Inter Cetera, that all lands located west of a meridian distant one hundred leagues (about four hundred and twenty kilometers) from Cape Verde They should belong to Spain, while those that were discovered and conquered to the east of that line, and that were not subje...