Tebirkes
Tebirkes (in Jutland and on Funen also Københavnerbirkes ) is a Danish breakfast pastry in Wienerbrød style made from puff pastry (butter, flour, salt, water / milk), coated with whisked egg and sugar and sprinkled with poppy seeds . There is also a variant with remonce (butter, sugar), which gives the filling a caramel-like consistency.
variants
There are numerous variants and names for the Tebirkes:
- Birkes - without remonce
- Grovbirkes - without remonce, made from graham flour or coarse kernels
- Tebirkes - with or without Remonce, also called Smørbirkes.
- Chokoladebirkes - Tebirkes with chocolate
- Ostebirkes - Tebirkes with cheese filling
- Havrebirkes - Grovbirkes based on oats
The dough for Tebirkes can also be made into croissants . If this dough is stretched out and twisted before baking, the resulting pastry is called a Frøsnapper .
origin
Birkes (or berkes ) is an old Danish word for bread baked from wheat flour and sprinkled with poppy seeds, as well as for the poppy seeds themselves. Originally it was used to describe a Jewish Sabbath bread.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berkes. Ordbog over det danske sprog, historisk ordbog 1700–1950, accessed on July 3, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ Jørgen Fakstorp: birkes. In: The Danske store . lex.dk, accessed on July 3, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ Hvorfor hedder det tebirkes? BiblioteksvAGEN.dk, accessed on July 3, 2020 (Danish).