Sharing time ahoy!

[wiseheart]

Winter has returned, with heavy snowfall, and now I'm really worried that we won't have Easter eggs this year, because the Ester Bunny's gonna freeze his/her arse off. Drat, and I was sooo looking forward to a year in which we actually might have an honest, regular spring, instead of the heat wave following right on the heels of the frost. * pouts*

In any case, to cheer myself up after the apple pie disaster from Friday, I spontaneously decided to bake Transsylvanian butter buns... for the first time in my life. They turned out light, tasty and addictive, so I've decided to share the recipe with you. Why should I be the only one to get fat again because of the endless winter? ;)

Transsylvanian Buns

Ingredients:

500 gr white flour
500 gr butter or margarine (I used the cheapest margarine on the planet)
2 eggs
1/10 l sour cream (créme freche for the Germans among us)
1/10 l white wine
a flat teaspoon of sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt (or more, depending on your individual taste - I like them salty, myself)

1 beaten egg for the tops

How to do it?
1) Mix all ingredients unceremoniously and make a nice, smooth dough. You might have to add some more flour, as it tends to stick to your hands. At least it sticks to mine, but I always have warm hands, so you might be luckier.

2) Wrap the dough ball in tinfoil and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.

3) Roll out the dough (about 1 centimetre thick), cut out small buns, cut their surface in cross-shape a few times and paint them with beaten egg.

4) Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. Baking time is half an hour, but if your oven heats up quickly, they might be ready sooner. When they are nice yellow on the upside and golden brown on the bottom, they're ready.

Warning: Don't keep them in easily accessible places, or else they'll be gone within the our. *g*

Comments

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Oh! Would you mind wafting the smell this way? Please? *drools excessively*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not? *g* If you visit me, I'll even bake you some.

Haldir isn't he only one who hates the movieverse, you know...

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, our plans for the summer holidays just went down the drains, so... ;-)

You like my avvie? Alassante made it for me - I love it! *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sorry about your holiday plans. I'd so love to meet you in person...

And yeah, your avvie's awesome. And so very true.

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Hi, there! These sound absolutely delicious! What a pity that I am on diet, at the moment... :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm *always* on some kind of diet. Sometimes I even manage to lose weight. ;) But I also need a break from it from time to time.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I want to make some of those! I usually do not have a problem translating your recipes, but what is 1/10 | - just a bit confused there. I would guess liter, but not sure sour cream comes in that size. Sigh - our measurement is so backwards here.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be liter. I don't know what LJ did with the coding or whatnot.

Over here, sour cream comes in small pastic cup of 1/8 or 1/4 liter, but I have a measuring cup in which I usually check the right amount. It's safer than just making a free estimate, using a spoon. ;)

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Sour cream here comes in plastic tubs weighing ounces and grams. But it should be easy to convert now that I know what I am converting from, lol. Can't wait to try them, they sound delicious.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Not to mention easily made, with very little actual work involved - always a good thing in my estimate. ;)

[artemis10002000]

*whimper* I shouldn't... oh, I really shouldn't but I want... *drools*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know...

Apropos, I made the apple tart today - it's really good, too. The amount of baking in my life at the moment clearly mirrors the work-related stress I'm in. For me, baking is a great way to relax... with delicious results, hehehe!

[artemis10002000]

You keep tempting me with delicious foodstuff *drools*

Yeah, baking is very relaxing! Eating, too, hehe!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. In stressy times, my moderate amount of daily exercise proves woefully inadequate to balance out the calory intake.

So, come, visit me and help me eat the stuff I bake. Why should I be the only one who gets fat? *g*

[artemis10002000]

*lol* I already did, mom and me got into this habit of having a cup of marzipan cappuccino every day. After a couple of weeks, we realised that we've been gaining weight. Turns out these little packages are made of 70% sugar. Ouch... all the cookies or cake I could have eaten for these calories!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cookies are definitely more useful. You have something to bite, at the very least.

Did you watch SGU today? I've just posted a short, unhappy review of today's episode.

[artemis10002000]

Yep, I got to watch it "live" since I'm still sick with the flu (though much improved). By the way, did I tell you yet that I got video recording working? Yippie! I can't watch one channel and tape another, though. Will need to get another cable attached to the satellite dish for that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

These things are getting increasingly complicated. A few years ago, you bought some sort of electronic equipment, plugged it in and it worked like a charm. In these days, you need a mechanic for everything - well I need one. I'm woefully untalented in these things. But in the olden days, I used to manage on my own.

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, these were the days *sighs wistfully*