SC - Funnel Cakes (was [TY] cooking query)

[Huette von Ahrens]

Have you [or anyone else] found any correlation
between funnel cakes and baumkuche?  Baumkuche is a
cake batter that is piped or drizzled onto a spit and
cooked over a fire.  I have always wondered if there
was a correlation.

Huette

- --- Valoise Armstrong <varmstro at zipcon.net> wrote:
> Here are several Strauben and other funnel cake-like
> recipes from Sabina
> Welserin. She must have really been fond of them to
> include this many
> recipes. I thought I saw a Strauben recipe in Anna
> Weckerin that included
> chopped apple in the dough. I'll look laer this
> evening to see if I can
> find it and give it a quick translation.
> 
> Valoise
> 
> **********
> 82   Spritzgebackenes
> 
> 	Then take one third quart of milk and let it boil
> and take wheat flour, as
> if you were making steamed buns, and take six or
> eight eggs and beat them
> in one after the other until the dough becomes very
> soft and put through a
> pastry bag and fry it slowly.
> 
> 86   If you would bake good fried Strauben
> 
> 	Then bring water to a boil and pour it on the
> flour, stir it together
> well, beat eggs into it and salt it, take a small
> Strauben funnel, which
> should have a hole as wide as a finger, and let the
> batter run through and
> fry the Strauben. The batter should be warm.
> 
> 
> 99   To bake white Lautensternchen
> 
> 	Take flour and pour cold water thereon and salt and
> make the dough thick
> and thin it with pure egg whites, until it becomes
> thin enough. After that
> take a small Strauben funnel, which should have a
> very small hole, and take
> a small pan, and it should run through so that it
> looks like
> Lautensternchen and fry them therein.
> 
> 141   To bake Strauben for a meal
> 
> 	Take six eggs and a little milk with water, salt
> it, beat it together well
> and put the flour into it. Do not make it thick,
> then it is right.
> 
> 
> 161   To bake white Strauben
> 
> 	Take egg whites, well beaten, and some wheat flour,
> make a thin batter out
> of it, and let it run through a skimming ladle. Turn
> the Strauben at once
> in the fat. Wind them around a rolling pin, then
> they become curved.
> 
> 
> 162   To bake Spritzgebackenes
> 
> 	Take one quart of water or milk for a meal and put
> it into a pan. Bring it
> to a boil, stir good flour into it, so that the
> dough becomes fairly dry,
> take it out of the pan, roll it out well, but with
> additional flour, put it
> into a mortar, blend it well with eggs, until it
> becomes good and sticky,
> put it in a pastry bag, bake them slowly.
> 
> 185   If you would fry white Strauben
> 
>   	Take an egg white and a spoonful of water and of
> flour and stir it
> together well until the batter becomes smooth. Put
> sugar in the batter and
> make it thinner than other batters. Make eight or
> ten small holes in a
> small pot [let the batter run through] and fry it
> through that. And make
> nice long strips, as long as the pan. They are not
> as thick as other
> Strauben. Make a round stick three fingers wide, so
> that the pastry can be
> wrapped over it, and twist it around with the stick
> and take it out, and
> when you have taken it out, then take hold of the
> pastry and curve it over
> the stick so that it goes together like a Hohlhippe.
> And set them on a
> board, one after the other, and always set two close
> against each other.
> This is pretty around a tart.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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