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Branch Cake

1. Cream butter until light and gradually add 1/2 cup of sugar, lemon peel and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla.

2. Add yolks, one a time, beating well after each addition.

3. Mix flour with 1/3 cup of cornstarch, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and stir into butter mixture.

4. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form, gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, beat till stiff peaks form.

5. Stir a small amount of egg white into flour mixture, fold flour mixture into egg whites.

6. Bake on rotating spit.

Remove your sakotis from the spit before serving.

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Tirol Dumplings

Culinary history has always been notable for successfully overcoming political boundaries. For instance, the history of the origins of the Tirol dumpling is in no way restricted to today’s Tirol. Although first recorded in a Tirol cookery book in the 16th century, spicy dumplings had been known fully 400 years earlier in areas of what is now Italy. This is demonstrated by a “fresco with dumplings” in the castle chapel in Hocheppan (Castel d’Appiano). What else but a delicious Tirol dumpling could have inspired the artist in question?

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup of butter
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
  • 1/2 tea spoon of finely grated lemon peel
  • 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 2/3 cup of flour
  • 1/3 cup of cornstarch
  • 6 egg whites
  • 1/4 tea spoon of salt
  • 1/4 cup of sugar

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