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Bake, bake Kuchen
Apr. 19th, 2020 06:40 pmUtilizing the fact that I NOW HAVE YEAST (perhaps you've heard it already?) I decided to give Grandma's recipe a try and make a kind of Transylvanian sweet buns called Wasp Nest for the first time in my life.
This is the result:
Basically, it is a yeast dough roll, cut in 3 cm wide pieces and arranged as a wreath. The roll is filled with a spread consisting of butter and sugar, each "snail" is coated with liquid butter before putting into the oven, and when they're half-done, each one is liberally sprinkled with a mixture of warm milk, sugar and vanilla. So yeah, it isn't for the weight conscious, but it is heavenly, and I'm very proud that I've managed to get it right at the first try.
Needless to say that we had just a soup for lunch to go with such excesses.
Other than that, not much happened. Since I had two egg whites left from the Wasp Nest that I didn't want to waste, I also made financiers. With that, half the day was already gone. I did a bit of translating and wrote about two pages of the vampire crossover story, not to mention the obligatory crossword puzzles in German and Hungarian, and that was basically it.
Oh, and I talked to my goddaughter (the mother of Baby Emma) on the phone. Her mother, the proud grandma, also mailed us a few photos of Baby Emma. Such is family life in the time of the plague.
This is the result:
Basically, it is a yeast dough roll, cut in 3 cm wide pieces and arranged as a wreath. The roll is filled with a spread consisting of butter and sugar, each "snail" is coated with liquid butter before putting into the oven, and when they're half-done, each one is liberally sprinkled with a mixture of warm milk, sugar and vanilla. So yeah, it isn't for the weight conscious, but it is heavenly, and I'm very proud that I've managed to get it right at the first try.
Needless to say that we had just a soup for lunch to go with such excesses.
Other than that, not much happened. Since I had two egg whites left from the Wasp Nest that I didn't want to waste, I also made financiers. With that, half the day was already gone. I did a bit of translating and wrote about two pages of the vampire crossover story, not to mention the obligatory crossword puzzles in German and Hungarian, and that was basically it.
Oh, and I talked to my goddaughter (the mother of Baby Emma) on the phone. Her mother, the proud grandma, also mailed us a few photos of Baby Emma. Such is family life in the time of the plague.
