Rumtopf - Käsetorte -culinary tour around the world: germany - :)))

I'm still loughing....I was over at joan's to read what she had found about Germany, this week's country on our culinary trip around the world...

and she asked, no she was begging non to find to many recipes containing cabbage or potatoes
:)))))

weeeeelll...I'm playing in my backyard this time...beeing married to a german...:)))

so, on briiblog this time...no cabbage and no potatoes!!

does this make you happy, joan???

I hope so!!

for you I have two recipes...on very very drunk ;)..and one very sweet.

I hope you enjoy both! :)))

I work as a kind of turist guide on the summertime here on this beautiful place, that is the Garda Lake..and during my many trekkings I have had the opportunity to meet both germans from exBDR and germans from the exDDR.

both has made an incredibile efford to go along together in harmony and without to many discussions. that's good, don't you think?

oh..let's go on with the recipe...

my dear joan...for you...

the rumtopf!!!!

or, if you prefer...seasonal fruit drunken in rhum!

you need a large jar, big enough to contain 5liters.

I've used an olive oil jar, this:

then you start with the first fruit of the season

strawberries...

you need:

500gr of strawberries, 250gr of sugar and a bottle (70cl) of dark rum 54%

cut the strawberries in half(I didn't even wash them, mine were organic, and then with all the rum the were certainly disinfected :))) )

cover with the sugar and pour all the bottle over the sugar and the fruit.

close the lid of the jar and leave in a cool, dark place

the second fruit is:

cherries

1kg of cherries, 500gr of sugar and 40cl of rum.

leave the cherries with a piece of stalk attached, cover with sugar and pour over the rum..

don't mix.

so you go on with all fruits of the season....

peaces and apricots

500gr of peaches, 250gr of sugar and 40cl of rum

500gr of apricots, 250gr of suag and 40cl of rum

cut in halves without stones, peel the peaces, cover with sugar and pour over the rum.

different sorts of plums

500gr of plums, 250gr of sugar and 40cl of rum.

cut the plums in halves without stones and cover with sugar, pour over the rum.

end with pears

500gr of pears, 250gr of sugar and 40cl of rum

cut the pears in quarters, cover with sugar pour over the rum.

now, let rest for 4 weeks, then you add another half of bottle of rum and let rest, for other 4 weeks.

usually by then you arrive at Christmas, and can offer the rumtopf as a different Christamas gift.

per la versione italiana cliccate sulla foto.

brigidaa_te:

if you can find use the rum at 54%, I used an normal Pampero 40%

in the orginal recipe they put 500gr of sugar...that is to much (for me)

other fruits you can add are:

raspberries

blueberries

don't add:

kiwi

oranges

apples

my other recipe is a tipical german cake..

käsetorte

this is a very quick cake, but very important is to use quark, that is an acid ricotta.

if you can't find it, use ricotta. it will be very tasty the same, but more solid.

for the bottom:
200gr of plain flour
3 gr chemical yeast for cakes
60gr di sugar
1 egg
100gr of butter

for the cream:
1kg di quark*
160gr sugar
1ogr of vanillina
grated peel of one lemon (organic)
60gr of semolina**
4 eggs

for the bottom:

mix all the ingredients very quickly with your fingertips

stretch out in a mould (grease it before stretching the dough)

for the cream:
mount the egg whites very stiff and put aside.

wisk the rest of the ingredients to a very flouffy cream, add the whites carefully.

pour the cream in the crust bottom.

put in a preheated oven at 180° C for ca 50min. cover if it gets to brown.

see you next week in FRance...

vive la France..olà là! :)))