Badische Scherben (biscuits)
Time
Preparation time: 40 min.
Cooking or baking time: 15 min.
Total preparation time: 1 hr. 5 min.
In this country (in Baden) as? Badische? or even? Karlsruhe? Shards known. Not only good at carnival time. I bake them all year, so I always have something there when a surprise visit comes.
ingredients
- 300 g of flour
- 250 g of liquid cream
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 shot of soda (mineral water)
- (Alternative ingredients: see below for additional information)
- Frying oil (necessary amount for the pot or fryer used)
- Powdered sugar for dusting
preparation
1st stage
Put the flour, salt, sugar and lemon juice in a bowl. Slowly mix with the liquid cream to a smooth dough. Stir in mineral water (makes the whole thing "airy"). Let rest in the mixing bowl for about 30 minutes (not in the fridge).
2nd stage
Roll out the dough thinly on a floured work surface (max. ½ cm) and cut diamonds of different sizes with a pastry dough (this is of course also possible with a knife).
3rd stage
Pour the dough into the hot fat (depending on the size of the pot or fryer, if necessary in portions) and fry until golden brown. The hot fat causes the dough diamonds to bend, so to speak? and in the end they look like broken pieces - hence the name. Remove with a foam scraper (a kind of stick on a stick) and place on a tray lined with absorbent kitchen paper to allow the fat to drip off. Immediately sprinkle with icing sugar on all sides. Finished. Good Appetite!
additional Notes
- If you do not like or tolerate cream (perhaps because it's a dairy product), you can fold in 2 whole eggs and 1 egg yolk instead. For this, the eggs (all 3) before separately separately ?, then the whole thing becomes airier.
- If you like it sweeter, you can of course take more sugar, but be careful: the icing sugar that is used to pollinate the pieces at the end makes them sweet enough. Just try and adjust as you wish.
- The fat in which the pieces are baked, you can use a few times for pastries. To do this, it is best to put cooled (but not cold) fat in an empty cooking oil bottle when it has cooled down. Of course it gets stuck in the bottle. When I need it again, just run warm water into the sink and put the bottle in it. The fat then slowly becomes liquid again.
- The broken pieces are also good as accompanying biscuits to different "lightning desserts"? (such as ice cream or pudding) or to mousse au chocolat, passion fruit mousse and the like.
- The shards hold - if they are not previously destroyed - well and gladly 2-3 weeks in a sealed tin.
Tips for variations
- Add 3 - 4 tablespoons of ground nuts (walnuts or hazelnuts or both together) or almonds to the dough.
- Instead of lemon juice you can also use the same amount of multivitamin juice or white wine or apple juice (better if children eat). Or omit this point completely.
- Add a little cinnamon.
- Of course you can also incorporate the nuts AND cinnamon together (eg at Christmas).
- The imagination knows no limits. Always keep one note in mind for all variations (including the "self-invented" ideas): The dough should be rollable and consistent enough so that the cut diamonds (or other shapes) do not crumble when thrown into the hot fat.
Have fun preparing and enjoying.
