Elsfelder Kranzel

Ingredients

• Break 2 yeast cakes
• 1 cup of warm milk
• 1 teaspoonful sugar
• 1 pint of flour
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 4 ounces butter
• 4 ounces sugar
• 2 eggs
• the fine-chopped peel of 1 lemon
• a layer of fruit marmalade
• 2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar

Method

1. 1

   Prepare yeast in warm milk, sift flour, mix with yeast, salt, and make a batter.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and lemon peel, mix into sponge, add flour to make a soft dough.

3. 3

   Let rise, roll out, spread marmalade, shape into horseshoe, let rise, brush with egg, and bake.

4. 4

   Brush with egg mixture and sprinkle sugar when done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 369. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Elsfelder Kranzel. — Break 2 yeast cakes in a cup of warm milk, add 1 teaspoonful sugar, let it stand until the yeast rises to the surface. Sift 1 pint of flour in a warm bowl, make a hollow in the center, pour in the yeast and 1 cup of warm milk, add 1 tea- spoonful salt, and mix the whole into a batter ; cover and set in a warm place to rise till light Then stir 4 ounces butter with 4 ounces sugar to a cream, add by degrees 2 eggs and the fine-chopped peel of 1 lemon, stir this into the light sponge ; add sufficient fiour to make a soft dough, turn the dough on to a board, and work till it ceases stick- ing to the hands. Return it to the bowl, cover and let rise to double its size ; then lay the dough on to a floured board and roll it out 1 inch in thickness, spread a layer of fruit marmalade over, and roll up like a music roll. Lay the roll in a buttered pan in the shape of a horseshoe, let rise again until very light, then brush over with beaten egg, and bake in a medium-hot oven till done. In the meantime mix the white of 1 egg with 1 tablespoon- ful milk and 1 tablespoonful sugar. When the kranzel is done brush this all over the cake and sprinkle over 2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar, return it for a few minutes to the oven, and serve when cold. Hot Cross Buns. — Break 1 yeast cake into 1 cupful lukewarm milk, add 1 teaspoonful sugar, place the cup in a warm place till the yeast rises to the surface. Sift 1 cup of flour into a bowl, add the yeast and Y4 teaspoonful salt,

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