Domino
Dominoes are a gingerbread specialty. They are cubes made of several layers of brown gingerbread and different fillings, especially fruit jelly , marzipan or persipan , with a chocolate coating . Although dominoes are available all year round, they are part of the autumn and winter seasonal goods and Christmas cookies .
description
The German Food Book classifies dominoes as filled brown gingerbread and counts them as long- life baked goods . In addition to simple dominoes, it also defines two outstanding quality levels, namely:
- Fine dominoes must contain at least two layers of filling, at least one of which is made from a fruit preparation and one made from marzipan or persipan. A synonymous, rather unusual name is "dessert dominoes".
- The finest dominoes may only contain fillings made from fruit preparations and marzipan, i.e. no persipan or anything else.
Double-filled dominoes with a gingerbread base, on top of which a layer of fruit preparation, immediately afterwards Persipan (rarely marzipan) are very common; Simply filled dominoes or other fillings can almost only be found at bakeries or gingerbread bakers. Dark chocolate as well as milk and white chocolate can be used as a coating .
To make dominoes, you first bake the gingerbread base, place the fillings on it over a large area and, depending on the variant, additional layers of gingerbread, then cut the finished plate into cubes and coat them with couverture.
history
The domino was invented in 1936 by the Dresden chocolatier Herbert Wendler (1912–1998). The layered praline was intended to appeal to a wider range of buyers, as it was cheaper than the other products from his praline manufacture. In times of food shortages during the Second World War , the domino became popular as an "emergency praline". As the successor to this tradition, the company “ Dr. Quendt “away the dominoes. She inherited the original recipe from Herbert Wendler when his company went bankrupt in 1996 . The “Dresdner Herrenkonfekt” with 30% rum and punch filling came onto the market as an in-house development.
The Lambertz company in Aachen produces four and a half million dominoes a day from July to December.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Food Book, Guidelines for Fine Baked Goods , Section III 3 c) bb), 5th indent
- ^ Dresdner Dominoes ( Memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology . Retrieved November 30, 2011.
- ↑ Dresden marzipan domino stones. In: dr-quendt.de, accessed on December 5, 2019.
- ↑ Men's confectionery. In: dr-quendt.de, accessed on December 5, 2019.
- ↑ Friederike Haupt: In the Christmas bakery. In: FAS , August 19, 2018, p. 4.