How to make a cake with currants

My husband's relatives live in the south of Germany and they taught me how to cook real food. Swabian pie. It turns out to be very tasty, tender, appetizing and not at all difficult in execution.

The original recipe uses red currants, but I prefer black. So the cake has a more spicy and pronounced taste.

Black currants are terribly useful and rich in vitamins, but in raw form I do not like it very much, but on the most gentle sand dough, this sour-sweet berry flies away in a moment. Everyone in my family loves this cake.





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Test ingredients

• 300g flour
• 125g butter
• 200g sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp starch
• 500g currants
• pinch

Preparation

1. To prepare a sand crust, sift 250 grams of flour together with baking powder and salt on the desktop. Take the butter out of the fridge and cut it into small pieces.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Cut the butter in the flour with a knife so you make a baby. Separate the proteins from the yolks into two different containers. In a deep bowl, combine yolks, flour crumb and 100 grams of sugar. Start mixing the dough.
   
   
   
   
3. Keep mixing the dough. It should be soft and elastic. Put the finished dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
   
   
   
   
4. Wash, clean the twigs and dry the currants. If you use a frozen berry, it is better to lay it on a cord, pour boiling water and leave it for 10 minutes so that the glass has excess liquid. Then pour the berries on a paper towel to dry a little.
   
   
   
   
5. The proteins are cooled, and then start whipping them with a mixer first at a slow speed, gradually increasing. Carefully add to them the remaining sugar (100 grams), flour (50 grams) and starch. In the end, you should get a strong and dense mass.
   
   
   
   
6. When the squirrels are beaten, transfer the currant into a separate bowl, and then fill it with proteins and mix gently.
   
   
   
   
7. Take a baking mold, lubricate it with butter or cover it with parchment paper. Evenly distribute the dough on the bottom of the form and the sides. Put the stuffing on the dough and straighten it.
   
   
   
   
8. Put the cake in a preheated to 180 degrees oven and bake for 25-30 minutes. Here it is important to make sure that the top does not turn up prematurely.
   
   
   
   
9. That's all, Swabian. blackcurrant ready. Before cutting the cake, it is best to keep it in the refrigerator for several hours. After all, the filling is too juicy and when cutting a hot cake, a lot of juice will flow out in vain. Bon appetit!
   
   
   
   

I also suggest you find out the recipe for a delicious cake with fresh strawberries in jelly. The perfect summer treat!



We can safely say that without this delicious cake there is no Swabian cuisine! In southern Germany in Baden-Württemberg with the offensive berry-season It's baked in almost every house.

Such a cake is an example of a simple but exquisite pastry that is definitely worth cooking. And as soon as I meet currant in the market, I make a Swabian cake.

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