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Schlesisches Himmelreich — Silesian Heaven

Pork roast stuffed with dried fruit and cooked with cinnamon and lemon, served with potato dumplings.

Sounds weird, but is really yummy. Has its name for a reason.

GERMAN REGIONAL FOOD: Das Krabbenbrötchen - a North Sea Shrimp Roll. Nordseekrabben are a popular seafood along the German coasts. They come fresh in shell to be taken apart and to be eaten as is (Krabben puhlen, usually with a beer) - they also come on a roll (as pictured), in soups & stews, or as a Krabbencocktail with a Sherry-based sauce similar to ‘Thousand Island’, but better. They’re small, very tender, low calorie, and high protein. They belong to the same species as lobster, crayfish, crabs, and prawns, and live in deep waters off the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. They’re also found in the White Sea off northwestern Russia, and on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. The best ones are caught in autumn, when they have had enough to eat all summer. Peeled and frozen Nordseekrabben are available all year - look for them in German supermarkets. In the North they’re basically a cultural icon, so try them if you can. :) 

Bienenstich – German Bee Sting Cake

Sweet yeast cake with vanilla-buttercream filling and caramellized honey-almond topping

According to the legend, the citizens of Linz on Rhine planned to attack the neighboring city of Andernach in 1474. The resaon for that was that Linz had lost the right to take toll of passing ships, while Andernach had acquired this right. But on the morning of th attack, two baker apprentices were sneaking down the walls of Andernach because they wanted to steal the honey of the beehives that were hanging on the town walls. When they saw the armed Linzers, they threw the beehives at them. The Linzers, massively attacked by the angry bees, fled and Andernach was saved. To celebrate the victory, a cake from the recovered honey was baked.

Ingredients

For the dough:

  • 250 g / 1.75 cups flour
  • 20 g / 7 teaspoons fresh yeast
  • 125 ml / 0.5 cups milk or water
  • 1 egg
  • 35 g / 1.2 oz sugar
  • 35 g / 1/3 stick butter
  • 1 pinch of salt

For the topping:

  • 75 g / 2/3 stick butter
  • 100 g / 0.5 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of honey
  • 3 tablespoons of whipping cream
  • 100 g / 1 cup sliced almonds

For the filling:

  • 500 ml 2 cups milk
  • 45 g / 1.6 oz / 0.36 cups cornstarch
  • 1 package vanilla sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 75 g / 2/3 stick butter
  • 40 g / 1.4 oz / 0.32 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Dough:

  • dissolve sugar and yeast in milk or water, let stand a couple of minutes to activate the yeast
  • put flour, butter, egg, and salt into a bowl
  • add the yeast suspension and knead to a smooth dough
  • cover the bown with a cloth and let the dough rise for an hour in a warm place
  • After the dough has risen, distribute it evenly into a spring form or onto a baking tray and let it rise once again for 20 min

Topping:

  • put butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and milk into a pot and bring it briafly to a boil
  • gently fold in the almonds and let it cool a bit until it is still spreadable
  • spread the mass evenly onto the dough
  • bake at 200 °C 390 °F for 20 min until golden brown
  • let it cool and slice it horizontally into two halves of even thickness

Filling:

  • heat milk, starch, vanilla sugar, and sugar in a pot under constant stirring
  • let it cool to room temperature
  • beat butter and powdered sugar until fluffy
  • gently fold sugared butter under the milk cream
  • spread all of the buttercream evenly onto the lower half of the cake
  • cut the upper half into pieces of the desired size and place them on top of the buttercream (since the crust on the top is quite hard and the buttercream layer very soft, it would be almost impossible to cut the pieces afterwards without destroying the whole cake)

Serve it with coffee on a sunny Sunday afternoon

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