I can give you the recipe if you want 🙂 I prefer it with a vanilla sauce, but my oma uses a wine sauce
Oooh, I’d love a tried and true recipe, if you don’t mind! Thank you!
My Oma’s Dampfnudel
(It is a bit different than what I’ve seen online and the GBBO episode, but it is delicious.) Easy to make, just takes time between rises and good arm strength for the dough.
Dampfnudel
1 package of yeast
2/3 cup of whole milk (warm)
½ cup sugar + 1 tbsp
1 tbsp of vanilla sugar
4 cup flour
3 eggs
1 lemon (zested)
+butter for greasing pot
Milk Sauce (poaching Liquid)
2 cups whole milk (warm)
2 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tbsp butter melted
Sift flour into large bowl and make a well in the middle. In a separate bowl or measuring cup, combine the 2/3 cup warm milk and 1 tbsp sugar and mix well. Pour into well and add packet of yeast. Allow yeast to bloom (about 10 minutes).
Sprinkle flour from edges of well over the well. Allow to rise (about 10 minutes) (I don’t know why we do this step but oma said do it, so…)
Beat the 3 eggs, and combine with lemon zest, ½ cup sugar + 1 tbsp vanilla sugar. Add to flour and mix well. Beat against side of bowl until dough ball forms and the sides of the bowl are clean (you could probably do this with a dough hook, but I haven’t tried it.) Let rise under a towel until double in size. (up to 2 hours)
Divide the dough into apple size balls. Place at bottom of greased pot. Cover with towel and let rise until doubled. (up to 30 min)
Preheat oven to 350 F
on stove, mix together 2 cup milk, 2 tsp vanilla sugar, and 1 tbsp butter in a sauce pan and keep warm.
Put uncovered pot into oven for 25 minutes or until the top of the dampfnudel is golden. Pour in the milk sauce and cover with lid, cooking for additional 15 minutes. Serve warm.
My oma usually serves it with a vanilla sauce ( Dr.Oetker packets nowadays) but you can use any vanilla cream sauce recipe. She prefers it with a sweet white wine sauce (which I would add but my recipe notes say add wine and eggs…without how much). Honestly, I think it works just fine with whipped cream and berries.
**You can also use this dough as a yeast cake base. Instead of lining in pot, put into greased baking pan and top with quartered plums (we use the Italian kind) with points upwards and pressed into dough. Let rise. Dust with cinnamon sugar (and a light grating of nutmeg if you like it) and bake at or 375 F until golden brown (30-35 min).
THANK YOU! When I make these, I will definitely tag you in the adventure!
A Medieval Gay Brawl in the Synagogue On Yom Kippur
Sometimes the finds of the Genizah are so incredible that you have difficulty believing that it’s really there, that you are really peering through this window into the lives of medieval Jews around the Mediterranean. This story caught my attention in a footnote of Goitein’s and I thought I would post it for Yom Kippur… It’s not really magic-related, except that I think there’s a certain magic in recovering and reclaiming the past.
The fragment shown here, T-S 8J22.25 in Cambridge, is a letter from a Jewish pilgrim named Hasan ben Mu’ammal, who had gone on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the High Holidays, Tishrei 4813 = September 1052 CE. He reports that a certain Daniel had wished to see him but he was unable to, because of “the altercation” that had happened in synagogue. Apparently, on Yom Kippur, many pilgrims had gathered from around the Mediterranean, and “a man from Tiberias and a man from [Tyre] became involved in love, and the Tiberian began fondling [?] the Tyrian in the sight of everyone… and the people from Tiberias and those from Tyre began to fight with one another and went out to […] and they brought the chief of the police to the synagogue and […] until the people calmed down.” Hasan goes on to report that Daniel had told him that “such is the behaviour of these people every day,” and concludes the letter with best wishes to the recipients (his brother Abu Nasr and family). A wild ride from start to finish. Goitein drily observes that the letter indicates that homosexuality was regarded as a “vice rather than a deadly crime… [and] it did not form the object of great social concern.”
Shana tova — welcome to 5777! May all who are fasting have a meaningful, enriching, and affirming day… and hopefully a peaceful one too!
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