[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Volker Bach]

Am Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2005 07:29 schrieb ranvaig at columbus.rr.com:

> http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_veggie1.htm
>
> 42. Cut apples rather rough/ and make a dough thereto rather thick
>   with wine/ put the apples therein/ and stir them well together/ that the
> dough goes through the apples. Take thereafter a pan with butter/ make it
> hot/ and pull the apples therein with the dough/ and don't pull it all into
> one pile/
>   so that the butter can come between/ bake [fry] it quickly/ and turn
> it often over/
>   so it will be beautiful and lovely. Give it warm to the table/ and
> sprinkle it with white sugar. So bakes [fries] one the stauben of apples.
>
> It sounds like apple funnel cake to me.  Google says that Stauben
> means "make dust", perhaps in the sense of the sugar that dusts them.
> I thought the wine batter sounded good, but havent picked up wine to
> try it with yet.

It looks like this is a typo in the original (Rumpoldt?). 'stauben' means 'to 
make dust', from 'Staub' - 'dust', but 'Strauben' is the word for a 
deep-fried pastry. 

I wsonder, is this supposed to be more like an apple pancake or discrete 
battered apple slices?

Giano


	

	
		
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