Our RetroRecipe for today comes from the cookery book 100 Simple Cookery Recipes, published in 1902. The Modern, Revised copy of this book is available for purchase in Google Play (Books).
THE RECIPE:
"This is a German
cake which is eaten on Shrove Tuesday as pancakes are in England. It is very good,
and is made in the following manner: — Take a gill (four ounces) of luke-warm
milk, three ounces of butter, one ounce of castor sugar, the yolks of
three eggs, and one ounce of yeast. Mix all this well together with
as much flour as will make a paste — just stiff enough to roll out.Then with a round cutter cut out cakes about the diameter of an orange, and 1 1/2 inches thick. Put them on a board in a warm place to rise, and then fry them in hot lard for about io minutes, so that they may acquire a nice brown colour. Drain them on blotting paper to free them from fat, sprinkle them with sugar, and serve very hot. It is usual before they rise to open them and introduce a spoonful of jelly, and to glaze the outside with egg."
- "In “The Season of Fools” The Krapfen is King! - Germanfoods.org." Accessed 18 Jan. 2019.
- "Shrove Tuesday" is the day before Ash Wednesday. Though named for its former religious significance, it is chiefly marked by feasting and celebration, which traditionally preceded the observance of the Lenten fast.
- A "gill" is a unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint, or four ounces.
LAGNIAPPE:
Our all-time favorite donuts are Spudnuts.TM Long ago when the editors were in junior high school (translation: Middle School) in the magical hamlet of Borger, TX, there was a Spudnut shop on Main Street, not far from the school. Our enlightened, much beloved, and undoubtedly bored out of his mind homeroom teacher, Mr. Pruitt, often sent us out to fetch a bag of Spudnuts for the whole class. If, or when, we substitute potato flour in the recipe below, we will post the results of our "Kartoffel Krapfen" (Please forgive our German).
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