Whatever baking is good for...

[wiseheart]

Remember Mum and I had that nasty stomach flu right before Easter? Well she still hasn't been able to gain back the eight pounds she'd lost back then... which is way too much loss of weight, since she's fragile enough already.

So, in the service of a noble agenda, I baked Granny's Famous Feather Light Biscuit(TM) today. That will get enough carbs and sugar into her system, and since it is feather light, it won't burden her stomach unnecessarily. Which is another thing to avoid since her operation 2 years ago.

Since the biscuit turned out excellent, despite the fact that I haven't made it for years, I'm willing to share with you folks my inheritance.

Ingredients:
6 eggs
120 gr white flour
200 gr sugar

That's it. No, really! The trick is to beat the egg white really hard first, then gradually add the egg yolks with the sugar (one egg yolk - one tablespoon of sugar, more or less), and the flour last, always one tablespoon at a time. You need an electric mixer, of course, or else you'd develop a tennis arm.

I baked it in a form for round cakes, 26 cm in diameter. You must smear the inside of the tin with margarine and sprinkle it with flour or dry bread crumbs before filling in the dough. Depending on your oven, by middle flame (gas) or 180°C (electric oven), it takes 23-30 minutes until it's ready. Pick it w. a roulade neede - if it comes back clean, it's ready.

You must take the cake out of the tin immediately. You can fill it with cream or jam (I used blueberry jam) or cover it with icing, but let it cool down completely first, or it will break.

Have fun!

Comments

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Mmmm....

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Give it a try, it's really easy to make. This is a basic biscuit that my Granny used for practically everything: for biscuit rolls, filled with jam and sprinkled with icing sugar; for fruit cakes, with vanilla pudding and fresh fruits and fruit gelee on top; even for such festive cakes as Frankfurter Kranz, which is filled with two different cremes and covered with ground walnuts in caramel.

[jsks.livejournal.com]

hope your mom feels better soon.
i will try the biscuit.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, Mum feels fine, thanks for your concern. She just seems unable to gain back the weight she's lost. I guess it isn't that easy when one's almost 80 years old.

The biscuit is really easy to make. Just make sure the middle of it isn't still somewhat sticky before you take it out of the oven. Then you can fill or adorn it any way you want. It's really... erm, versatile perhaps isn't the right word for a mere biscuit, but I can't think of a better one right now.

[artemis10002000]

Biscuits sound yummy!

Good luck getting your Mom to put on the weight again

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The biscuit *is* yummy indeed. And so easy to make! Granny usually made it in a rectangular pan and used for making a biscuit roll with apricot jam filling and icing sugar on top. Or as a basis for a fruit cake. You can also make it in a Gugelhupfform, adding cocoa to half of the dough and then stir the two halves slightly together for the marble effect.

[morethanpasta]

Das hört sich herrlich an!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Das schmeckt auch herrlich! ;)

[weis07.livejournal.com]

Oh! I usually make this biscuit with apples, but I take 3 eggs, 250 gr white flour and 250 gr sugar. Mix it hard and fast, add apples in the end - after mixing everything else - and put it in the oven.
It turns out really yummy))) And so simple!
Now I'll definitely try your version))

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! How many apples to this amount of dough? I'd like to try your version, too!

Simple recepies are the best. Especially when one has so little free time as I do.

[weis07.livejournal.com]

I take two big or three medium apples.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks! I'll definitely give it a try!