Quince-Bread

A delicious alternative to the common quince jelly. My mother wasn't that convinced at the beginning but after she tasted the result she was excited about the flavor.

Recipe (for 2 breads)
Dough
500 g flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
220 g butter
1 dl water
1 egg
1 lemon (only zest)
1 tablespoon honey

1. Mix flour, salt, lemon zest and baking powder in a bowl.
2. Form a recess and mix melted butter, water and the egg.
3. Add this liquid and honey to the flour-mixture and knead it until you get a smooth dough.
4. Cool it for at least 1 hour.

Filling

800 g quince

70 g sugar

30 g honey

100 g dried figs

100g dried dates

50 g walnuts

1 packet vanilla custard powder

1 egg

some coarse sugar

1. Wash the quinces and cut them into small pieces.
2. In a pan, cover them with water and cook it for half an hour.
3. In this time cut figs and dates into small pieces and hack the roasted walnuts.
4. Measure 2,5 dl of the quince cooking juice and boil it up with the vanilla custard powder.
5. Purée the quinces, add the pudding, figs, dates, honey, sugar and walnuts, mix it and let it cool.
6. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
7. Halve the dough and roll the pieces out to 3 mm.
8. Put each time half of the filling on the dough and spread the edges with the whisked egg.
9. Roll it up and put it on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
10. Spread it again with the whisk egg and sprinkle the breads with coarse sugar.
11. Bake them for 60-70 minutes (maybe you have to lower the heat).

Apple-Marzipan-Cinnamon-Sheet-Cake

Delicious cake with self-made marzipan - so easy to do.

Recipe for 1 baking sheet (ca. 30x40 cm)

100 g sugar powder

100 g almonds (without husk)

1 drip bitter almond aroma

2 tablespoons of water

225 g butter

150 g sugar

1 packet vanilla sugar

1 pinch salt

6 eggs

375 g flour

1 packet baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon

3 tablespoons milk

1 kg apples

some cinnamon sugar

1. Grind the almonds until they are nearly like flour.
2. Add sugar powder, water and bitter almond aroma and mix it until it's a smooth dough.
3. Peel the apples, remove the core and cut them in slices.
4. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
5. Stir butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until light. Stir in marzipan.
6. Add one egg after the other and mix.
7. Mix flour, cinnamon and baking powder, add it together with milk and stir in.
8. Oil and flour the baking sheet.
9. Fill in the dough and smooth it out.
10. Spread the apple slices and press them carefully in.
11. Besprinkle it with cinnamon sugar and bake the sheet cake for 30-35 minutes.
12. Let it cool.

Spinach-Parsley-Canneloni

Meal prepared with everything I could find in my kitchen and came out soo yummy!

Recipe for 2 helpings
Ingredients
8 canneloni
2-3 lumps of spinach
1 clove of garlic
1 small ognion
30 g + some butter
30 g flour
3,5 dl milk
1 bunch of parsley
200 g sour cream
75 g ground cheese (exp.: sbrinz)
some salt, pepper, paprika, nutmeg
salt water

1. melt some butter in a pan and sweat hacked ognion and garlic
2. add spinach, steam it and flavor with salt and pepper
3. melt 30 g butter in a pan, add flour and milk and boil until it's viscous, flavor with salt, pepper, paprika and nutmeg (sauce hollondaise)
4. preheat the oven to 200 degrees
5. boil up salt water and boil canneloni for 2 minutes
6. mix half of the sauce hollondaise, spinach, ground cheese, sour cream and hacked parsley, flavor it depending on your taste
7. grease a casserole and fill the canneloni with the filling
8. put them in the casserole and pour the remaining sauce hollondaise over them
9. bake it for 20 minutes

Bagels

After a long time I finally tried out this delicious American bakery product. Quite easy to prepare and sooo delicious to eat.

Recipe for 12 bagels
Ingredients
250 g white flour
250 g whole grain flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 lump of yeast (11 g)
60 g butter
2,5 dl lukewarm milk
1 egg white

salt water
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons sesame
1 teaspoon coarse salt

1. mix flour, salt, sugar and crumbled yeast in a bowl
2. warm up milk together with butter in pan until it's lukewarm
3. add it together with the egg white
4. knead it until it's a soft dough
5. let it rise until double volume
6. divide the dough in 12 pieces
7. with a wooden spoon or your fingers form bagels with a hole of 3 cm diameter
8. let them rise on baking sheets again for 20-30 minutes
9. preheat the oven to 220 degrees
10. boil up salt water and bathe every bagel in the boiling water for 15 seconds
11. dilute the egg yolk with some milk and spread the bagels
12. sprinkle them with course salt and sesame
13. bake them for 20 minutes
14. fill the bagels with what ever you want (exp: cream cheese, salade, tomatos, cheese, salmon)