Baba au rhum
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Baba au rhum [ babao'ʀɔm ] is a tall, round bowl cake made from sweet yeast dough , which is soaked with a mixture of syrup and rum after baking . The name of this French cake is probably borrowed from the Russian babushka , or Baba for short , for 'grandmother'.
To prepare, a lightly sweetened yeast dough is first let rise well with milk , eggs and butter and baked in a cylinder or Gugelhupf pan. Depending on the recipe, raisins are also added to the dough . After cooling, the cake is soaked several times with the liquid from syrup sugar and rum until it is completely soaked, which takes a few hours. To refine it, it can be covered with hot apricot jam and finally a chocolate glaze made from couverture and cream . It is common to serve baba au rhum with a fruit salad or fresh fruit and lightly whipped cream.
According to legend, the baba au rhum was invented by the Polish king and Duke of Lorraine , Stanislaus I. Leszczyński .
In the comics of the Asterix series, a Roman camp is called “Babaorum”, a play on words with the name of the French cupcake.
literature
- Petit Larousse de la Cuisine . Paris 1998. ISBN 2-03-507030-9
