Happy New Year to Everyone!
Anna of Anna’s Cool Finds asked again for A taste of terroir. This time I chose Berliner Pfannkuchen. Berliners are traditionally eaten New Year’s Eve. I don’t know the right English word for it, because it’s even difficult in German. In Northern Germany this doughnut-style pastry is just called Berliner, it’s not a citizen of Berlin. Residents of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony know this as Pfannkuchen, which in the rest of Germany generally means pancakes. And the pancakes in this area are called Eierkuchen, not meaning an omelett but “egg cakes”. Be that as it may, we bake this every New Year’s Eve, but we skip the joke to fill some Berliners with mustard instead of jam and serve them together with regular Berliners without telling anyone. We prefer to serve them just with icing sugar, not with an icing.
How to make Berliner Pfannkuchen
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| Title: | Berliner Pfannkuchen (Berlin Pancakes) |
| Categories: | Baking |
| Yield: | 18 Servings |
Ingredients
| H | PRE-FERMENT | ||
| 250 | grams | Wheat flour Type 550, all-purpose | |
| 225 | grams | Milk 30° C | |
| 1 | pack | Dry yeast | |
| H | DOUGH | ||
| Pre-ferment, all of above | |||
| 250 | grams | Flour Type 550, all-purpose | |
| 10 | grams | Malt, optional | |
| 3 | Eggs, size M | ||
| 60 | grams | Sugar | |
| 60 | grams | Butter, softened | |
| 5 | grams | Salt | |
| 1/2 | vial | lemon flavour * | |
| 1/2 | vial | vanilla flavour * | |
| H | FILLING | ||
| Jam | |||
Source
| own recipe |
| Edited *RK* 12/30/2007 by | |
| Ulrike Westphal |
Directions
Mix together all ingredients for the pre-ferment and let rest for about 30 minutes.
Work up all ingredients for the dough until smooth. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to the walls of the bowlLet rest for 30 minutes. Cover a board with a cloth and dust the cloth with corn or potato starch.
Divide the dough into pieces of 50 grams, form into balls and set on cloth. Cover dough balls with cloth and plastic and proof until doubled in bulk.
Uncover the risen dough balls and wait until they get a "skin" on top.
Heat the oil to 180ºC . Place 2 – 3 of the risen dough balls with their bottoms into the oil at a time (more dough rounds placed into the oil at one time would lower the temperature of the oil to much, so stick to 2 – 3 at a time). Fry the Berliners until golden-brown turning them only once while frying them. Remove from the oil and drain on a wire rack.
Let oil heat up to ideal temperature, before placing more dough into it again.
The finished Berliner should look like a small cannon ball with a white waist line.
Fill the drained, but still warm Berliners with jam using a piping bag with a long nozzle.
Dust with icing sugar.
* You can also use lemon or orange zest.
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