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!
Tag: this sounds AWESOME
Baristas take matters into their own hands to start a worker-run co-op cafe
What was once a running joke is soon to be a reality when the Glitter Bean Cafe opens in July.
When the Smiling Goat on Spring Garden Rd. closed, the baristas saw their chance to open a space that was truly their own.
“We’ve joked about it for years, like ‘why don’t you just open your own cafe and do it,’ a lot of customers said to us,” said Charlie Huntley, one of the baristas behind the new co-op.
“But the part that was lacking was the funding, so the stars aligned to make it a possibility.”
The Spring Garden space was formerly a Just Us! before being bought by Kit Singh, the owner of six Smiling Goat locations, in September. Singh, who has seen four of his shops close in the last several months, is involved in a number of lawsuits regarding alleged unpaid wages and supplier bills.
The nine baristas who lost their jobs when the Smiling Goat closed in April banded together to form the Glitter Bean Cafe which will be a workers owned co-op, centred around providing a safe space for the queer community of Halifax.
Baristas take matters into their own hands to start a worker-run co-op cafe
Meet The Black Women Upending The Romance Novel Industry
I finally had time to sit down and dig into this excellent article. This is fantastic:
“The company has forged a chain uncommon in mainstream publishing: an unbroken line of black women, from the novel’s protagonist, via the author, to the editor, to the art director who created the cover art (featuring a black woman).
“This was a ‘black on all sides’ mainstream publishing project. And it worked.”
But I think my favorite detail is this one:
“For The Loyal League’s Civil War setting, Noble wanted to make sure the woman on the cover embodied strength. ‘They kind of got us beaten up and down, and I kept saying, “This artist has to make sure this woman is powerful.”’ Then, she says, with a proud smile, ‘I art-direct. Every detail, down to the ribbon on her dress. I need it to be historically accurate, I need it to be powerful.’“
That attention to detail shows too. The covers of Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series are some of the best to come out in years. You get a wonderful look at the cover of An Unconditional Freedom (out this fall) at the link. Please revel in the small details, like the mossy trees in the background, or the texture on the hero’s vest, or the soft glow from his lantern. Gorgeous.
ARE YOU READY TO FUCKING FLY
I will always try and reblog this.
My mom is a flight attendant and I can confirm this is 100% true when they have an empty flight, the crazy ones even go “cart surfing” which is where they get the pilot the go down a bit until they get on top of the beverage cart, then the get him to pull up and they go flying down the aisle until they hit a chair and fly off.
my friend is training to become an air hostess and her lecturer told her about cart surfing and gave at least 30 examples of when it’s happened, so i too can back this up
Free Review Copy For the First Historical Romance with a Disabled Protagonist (Spina Bifida)!
This is the first historical romance from a big publisher with a disabled protagonist! You might remember me talking about the first book in the series – The Importance of Being Scandalous (it’s 99cts atm!), in which Julia, the character with spina bifida, was a side character. It’s a companion series with separate stories, so you don’t need to have read the first book to read this.
Now she’s getting her own book and it’s vital that we support it to show we want diverse books! You can help by talking about the book, reblogging this post – or you might get an early copy if you request one:
- On Netgalley (x)
- for special requests about other involvement (promo etc) email publicist Holly at holly@entangledpublishing.com with details about your social media.
Who qualifies:
- Everyone who can leave a review on Goodreads/Amazon/Their Blog. You don’t need to have a book blog.
- The release date is January 30th. Reviews posted by then would help the most, but there’s no deadline.
Full blurb:
Jasper De Vere doesn’t do sad. Ever since the death of his parents, he’s devoted himself to life’s many pleasures—while making sure to avoid attachments. It’s difficult to avoid your own grandfather though, especially when you’re the heir to his Dukedom. Unable to sit by and watch one of the few people he cares about wither away, Jasper flees to his friend Nicholas’s country estate.
Julia Bishop leads a life of glorious excitement—in her head. The spinal injury she was born with makes her a permanent pariah in society, so despite being the daughter of an earl, she’s spent her life in the country with just her family to keep her company. When her brother-in-law’s flirtatious—and devilishly handsome—friend mistakes her for an untroubled debutante, Julia isn’t about to let an opportunity for some real, live adventure slip away.
Delicious distraction and flirtation turn into an all-out affair, and slips dangerously close to something more when family intrudes. Can Jasper and Julia return to their separate lives in isolation, or will they take a risk and choose each other?
Please reblog to give more disabled reviewers a chance to get to see themselves in a free book!
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Don’t care that it’s a bodice-ripper, totally reblogging.
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