Like all nations of the world, the Germans especially value their culinary history, in which the place of honor is occupied by the Streuselkuchen pie, or “Shtreisel”. Who invented this recipe is not known for sure. But information was preserved that by the end of the 19th they knew and knew how to cook a pie in every region of Germany.
Initially, the shtreisel was prepared on the basis of yeast dough stuffed with pudding or fruit filler and sprinkled with shortbread crumbs. Today, the cake is made on biscuit and sand cake, depending on the density of the filling, and with different heights of shtrezel.
How to make candy crumbs: cooking secrets
The success of the German pie is largely due to the addition of sugar and flour crumbs, which is now also called shtreisel. After baking, it turns into a crispy ruddy crust and gives the cake not only a great taste, but also a presentable appearance.
It’s not difficult to make culinary crumbs, or shtreisel, with your own hands. The recipe involves the use of such ingredients: 60 g of flour, 30 g of sugar and butter at room temperature. The optimum proportion for the shtrezel: 2: 1: 1. You can add egg yolk (for a golden crust). All ingredients are combined in one dish, and using a regular fork, grind to the state of crumbs. After that, the mass is additionally crushed by hand.
Ready shtrezelom you can sprinkle any pies, cakes, pastries, muffins and cookies. Thanks to the inexpensive and easy to prepare crumbs, you can achieve a ruddy and fragrant crust on sweet pastries.
Cooking Tips:
- butter can easily be replaced with high-quality margarine;
- if the crumb sticks together, you need to add a little more flour to it, and if it crumbles, then, on the contrary, oil;
- Streisel will turn out even tastier if you add cinnamon, orange zest, chopped nuts or cocoa to your taste.
Silesian Shtreisel pie: cottage cheese recipe
This recipe is from Silesia, a historical region in Central Europe that covers parts of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. And until now, disputes do not cease: who actually invented the real Shtreisel, Germans, Poles or Czechs.
In Silesia, Shtreisel is prepared according to a traditional recipe, that is, based on yeast dough. As the filling, the most delicate curd mass based on cream cheese is used, and on top the cake is abundantly sprinkled with culinary crumbs.
The pie dough is kneaded from a bag of yeast (7 g), a glass of milk, 50 g butter or margarine, 50 g sugar, a pinch of salt and 450 g flour. Pre-cook dough is not necessary. Just combine all the ingredients and knead the elastic dough. Leave it on the table for half an hour, wrapping it in plastic so that it fits a little.
Meanwhile, beat with a mixer 3 eggs, 200 g of sugar and the same amount of butter until a thick and high foam is formed. Then add 1 kg of cream cheese to the same mass. Mix well and refrigerate for a while.
Make a shtreisel. The recipe is the following: grind 200 g of sugar into crumbs, the same amount of butter, a little cinnamon and 350 g of flour.
Form a cake. Roll out the yeast dough and put it on a rectangular baking sheet, slightly raising the edges. Spread the curd filling evenly on top and sprinkle thickly with crumbs. Bake at 175 degrees 35 minutes.
Original Shtreisel pie with strawberries: recipe
To prepare the dough: beat 50 g of soft butter to the consistency of the cream, add 150 g of sugar and an egg. In a separate bowl, combine the sifted flour, 10 g of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Add dry ingredients and 100 ml of milk to the egg-oil mixture. Beat with a mixer and pour the dough into a baking dish. Put strawberries chopped into large slices on top. Shtrezel is evenly distributed from above.
The recipe for crumbs: grate 4 tablespoons of sugar and flour, 50 g of butter and the same amount of coconut flakes. Bake the cake for 35 minutes at a temperature of 175 degrees until dry skewers.
Streisel with Cherry
Tender and crumbly shortbread cake , juicy filling with a pleasant sourness and crisp - what could be better for home tea drinking. This is one of the most successful product combinations for the Shtreisel pie. The cherry recipe is easy to cook and tastes good.
First you need to make shortcrust pastry from 150 g of butter, 50 g of icing sugar, eggs and two glasses of flour. You can not cool the dough, but immediately distribute it in a form and, having previously laid the load on it (peas, beans), send it to the oven for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, clear the glass of cherries, add two tablespoons of sugar and the same amount of starch. Mix. After that, make a shtreisel. The recipe for its preparation in this case consists in grinding to a state of crumbs 50 g of sugar, 100 g of flour and 50 g of oil.
Put the cherry filling on the sand cake , spread the crumbs evenly on top and send the cake to the oven for 20 minutes. It is better to cut the shtreisel after cooling.
Raspberry Shtreisel Pie
Thin and tender pie with fresh raspberries perfect for summer tea drinking. At the very beginning of its preparation, crumbs are made from 125 g of butter, sugar, vanillin and 175 g of flour. While the dough is being prepared, the shtreisel is resting in the refrigerator.
For the test, beat the butter at room temperature and a glass of sugar. Then add 4 eggs, a bag of baking powder (10 g), vanillin and a glass of flour. Knead the dough and immediately put it on a baking sheet. Put 400 g of raspberries on top and sprinkle with chilled crumbs. Streisel, the recipe with a photo of which is presented on this page, will turn out to be fragrant and very tasty in a summer way. The amazing taste of such pastries will be appreciated by all your family members.
Chocolate Chip Streisel
To prepare a test for this recipe, you need to beat with a mixer a glass of sugar and eggs (2 pcs.) Until lush foam. Then add a glass of warm kefir, a teaspoon of soda, 2 cups flour, 50 g of cold melted butter and vanilla.
Beat all ingredients until smooth. Pour the resulting dough into
a baking dish. Garnish with chocolate shtrezel made from the same amount (50 g) flour, cocoa, sugar and butter. Bake 40 minutes at 180 degrees.