The Art of German Cooking and Baking: Revised and Enlarged EditionMeier, Lina
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The Art of German Cooking and Baking: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Meier, Lina
Cooking, German
Preparation: The preparation is the same as given under No. 8, Coffee
Cake. Stir in 1 cup of flour more than given in No. 8, roll out the
dough to 1 inch thickness, strew it with sugar, cinnamon, currants,
almonds, sprinkle with melted butter, roll it up carefully and cut
slices off to make the snails. Place these into a buttered tin and set
to rise about ½ hour. Then bake them in a medium hot oven, brush them
while hot with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
No. 11—FILLED BERLINER PANCAKES OR STUFFED DOUGHNUTS.
Yeast dough, according to No. 8
Lard for baking
Jelly for filling
Preparation: The dough is prepared like No. 8, Coffee Cake, but 1 cup
of flour more is kneaded in than given under No. 8. Roll out the dough
½ inch thick, cut out small disks with a tumbler, put on one disk some
jelly or thick apple sauce, place another disk on top and fasten the
two by pressing the dough together all around, leave them on a floured
board or tin and set to rise. Heat the lard in an iron kettle and put
in a few Berliners at a time and bake them golden yellow. They must be
fried in deep fat. Prick them with a knitting needle to see whether
the dough is baked enough. While hot, roll them in sugar.
No. 12—WREATH CAKE.
1 lb. of flour
¾ cup of butter
4 eggs
1½ cents yeast
2 tbsps. of vanilla
½ cup of milk
¼ lb. of sugar
Preparation: Cream the butter, stir in the eggs, sugar vanilla, the
yeast which has been dissolved in ½ cup of lukewarm milk and the
flour. Roll out the dough quite thick, cut three strips of it and
braid it. Then make a wreath of this braid and put it into a buttered
pan to rise in a warm place. Brush it with yolks of eggs, strew sugar
on and bake in a hot oven to a nice color.
No. 13—ROUND COFFEE CAKE No. 1.
1 lb. of flour
½ lb. of butter
½ lb. of sugar
½ lemon peel
1½ cents yeast
3 eggs
1 cup of milk
Preparation: Cream the butter with sugar and eggs. The yeast is
dissolved in 1 cup of lukewarm milk and mixed in, also the grated ½
lemon peel; then stir in the flour and beat the dough well for 20
minutes. Butter a round cake pan with tube, fill in the dough to half
full and let it rise in a warm place to the top of the pan. Then bake
it 1 hour.
No. 14—ROUND COFFEE CAKE WITH RAISINS.
4 cups of flour
1 pt. of milk
3 eggs
Scant ½ lb. of butter
½ lemon peel
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of raisins
2 cents yeast
Preparation: Let the milk get lukewarm and stir to a smooth batter
with 2¼ cups of flour, mix with the yeast dissolved in ¼ cup of
lukewarm milk. Set the sponge to rise in a warm place, then stir in
the melted butter, eggs, sugar, grated lemon peel, raisins and the
rest of the flour, beat this dough well for 10 minutes. Butter a round
cake pan with tube, fill it half full and set to rise in a warm place
until the pan is full, then bake to a nice color for ¾ to 1 hour.
No. 15—STOLLEN.
Sufficient for 2–3 Cakes.
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