HOW TO MAKE WIBELE

How To Make Wibele –this is another sort of German cookie. Wibele is a small biscuits that are shaped like number 8. In the United States, many bakeries and pastry shops offer this thing. It is good for kids as present when they got high grades in school or did a good job. If there is no German-inspired bakery around your place, don’t worry because you can still make your own Wibele. Making this biscuit is not tricky at all, it’s like baking your favorite cookies, only this time, you’re going to make it look like number 8. Wibele is just a plain cookie but you can add a twist by using your favorite pastry dip. In our home, we use maple syrup and sometimes, chocolate. One of my friends combine it with marshmallows but I haven’t tried it. Here is how to make Wibele:

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

½ cup brown sugar

1 ½ cup butter

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon mixed spice

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 tablespoon lemon extract

1 egg

Baking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together all the ingredients except egg and lemon extract.
2. Mix perfectly, add the remaining ingredients and knead until dough is formed.
3. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface.
4. Cut the dough into pieces and make shapes like number 8.
5. Put on a baking tray.
6. Preheat oven to 350ºF for 12 minutes.
7. Remove and let cool.

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HOW TO MAKE SPRINGERLE (RECIPE)

How To Make Springerle (Recipe) –This is another traditional cookie famous in Central Europe especially in countries with German minorities. There is one thing you may find a problem when doing this cookie and that is the mold because we are going to use molds with design. But if you can’t find the molds then that’s alright. Simple mold would be alright, the design is just a bonus but the main thing we must consider here is the taste. On this recipe, we are going to use anise seeds but I tried sesame seeds and the taste was different but gives good taste. Also we are going to use vanilla but I tried maple syrup, it gives different taste as well but as good as using vanilla. You can experiment using the recipe. You can replace the seeds and vanilla with your favorite cookie ingredients. Here is how to make Springerle (recipe):

Ingredients

3 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1/8 cup anise seeds (crushed)

4 eggs (whisked)

1 tsp baking powder

2 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar

2 ¼ cup brown sugar

½ tsp vanilla

Baking Procedure

1. Grease 4 pieces cookie sheets, scatter with anise seeds, set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix together flour and baking powder. Mix perfectly.
3. In another bowl, combine eggs, vanilla and brown sugar altogether. Whisk perfectly until frothy.
4. Slowly pour flour in the eggs mixture while stirring to form a thick dough.
5. Scoop dough with your one hand and roll out on floured surface and make it into ¼ inch thick.
6. Gently sift confectioners’ sugar onto the dough.
7. Put the mold and press against the dough to create design.
8. Remove the mold and cut off the excessive dough all around the molded dough. Just repeat the process for all the remaining dough.
9. Place in the sheets and cover with clean cloth and set aside for 8 hours.
10. Preheat the oven to 120 degrees C.
11. Put the dough in the oven and bake until the surface turns light brown, that is approximately half an hour.
12. Remove from the oven and let cool down.
13. Store in a sealed container.

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HOW TO MAKE ZWIEBELKUCHEN

How To Make Zwiebelkuchen –In Germany, there is a tradition takes place during every fall season when the winemakers open a basinwirtschaft in the barn serving green wine with Zwiebelkuchen for very cheap price. One of the indications that a household started to serve is when there is a straw broom hanging over the doorway. This dish contains onions and bacon which I think are the key ingredients to give reasons why it is best served with wine. To me, the best drink for this dish is the red wine because I am not much of a drinker. In this recipe, we are going to use caraway seed but you can do some experiments by replacing it with anis or sesame seeds, even peanuts will do the trick. Here is how to make Zwiebelkuchen:

Ingredients

2 kilograms of sweet onions (sliced)

4 pieces cooked bacon (chopped)

15 oz. sour cream

¼ cup all-purpose flour

4 eggs (whisked)

½ tsp salt

½ tsp caraway seeds

2 recipe pastry (for 9” si crust pie)

Baking Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
2. Place the dough in the pizza pan.
3. In a frying pan, saute onion until translucent.
4. In a large bowl, combine onions and bacon together.
5. Add sour cream and stir.
6. Combine eggs and pie mixture and stir perfectly. Add flour to thicken.
7. Combine all the ingredients together and pour into prepared pizza pan.
8. Scatter caraway seeds on top.
9. Bake for an hour and set aside to cool down.
10. And serve with your favorite wine.

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HOW TO MAKE LEBERKAESE (Leberkäse)

How To Make Leberkäse – The Germans love to eat sausages and many kinds of dishes that have sausage in it. Leberkäse is a sort of sausage baked in a mold. This dish is eaten and served with fried egg or can be served with mashed potatoes too. Mustard can be a perfect thing that can be combined with, either sweet or hot. Leberkäse is made of ground pork and beef with fatty bacon. I have found one canned Leberkäse but the taste was different although I could taste something that is close enough to being Leberkäse. This dish is also an Aryan traditional food which I believe can be eaten as main course for breakfast and dinner or can be eaten as snack combined with hot lemon and tea. Here is how to make Leberkäse:

Ingredients

½ kilo ground beef

¼ kilo ground pork

1 cup fatty bacon (diced)

2 bratwurst (cooked, remove the skin)

1cup sweet onion (minced)

1 cup ice (crushed)

½ teaspoon lemon extract

2 tablespoon butter

Salt and pepper (according to your taste)

Marjoram

Cooking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together all the ingredients except butter. Mix and knead perfectly.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
3. Grease the baking tray with butter and line with aluminum foil.
4. Preheat oven to 355 degrees F.
5. Place the meat mixture into the tray. Spread butter around the meat mixture.
6. Bake the meat for 1 hour 15 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and let it cool down.
8. Transfer in a serving plate and serve with sweet mustard.

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HOW TO COOK SCHWEINSBRATEN

How To Cook Schweinsbraten –here is another German traditional dish. This dish requires you to fry the pork and roast. This Schweinsbraten recipe I am going to share with you has many ingredients but you can replace some of it with your favorite replacements. I have tried many versions of this dish and the outcome were all good so don’t hesitate to experiment. Here is how to cook Schweinsbraten:

Ingredients

1 kilo pork loin

¾ tbsp salt

¾ tbsp black pepper (ground)

1 ½ tbsp grainy mustard

½ tsp caraway seeds

¾ tbsp sweet paprika

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 medium size sweet onions (diced)

2 medium size carrots

2 tbsp cornstarch

2 tbsp butter

2 ¼ cups water

1 stalk green onion (chopped)

½ tbsp celeriac (chopped)

Cooking Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
2. Scatter pepper, salt and paprika, mustard and caraway seeds over pork and spread.
3. In a large frying pan, heat vegetable oil. Fry pork until golden brown.
4. Remove the pork and transfer to a roasting pan and set aside.
5. In the same pan, add onions (also the green onion), celeriac and carrots. Saute until cooked.
6. Transfer the cooked vegetables around pork in the roasting pan.
7. In the same frying pan, pour hot water, simmer and pour over pork.
8. Roast the pork in the oven for 2 hours. Pour melted fats over the pork time to time.
9. Check if the juice is running out, add water if necessary while roasting.
10.  Remove from oven. And set aside the pork.
11.  Remove the juice from the tray and transfer in a sauce pan.
12.  Add cornstarch and simmer until the sauce thickens.
13.  Pour sauce over the pork and serve.

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