cheese tart

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A cheese tart , and cheese cakes , Käsetünne or cheesecake is one in Switzerland popular spicy flat, mostly round, flat cakes . It consists of a cake batter (made from flour, salt, butter, sometimes with milk or cream, rarely with egg), a topping of grated hard cheese and a topping of cream , milk, flour or cornena and eggs. Mostly Emmentaler , Gruyère , Sbrinz or cheese mixtures are used as cheese. It is seasoned with salt, pepper and nutmeg . Sometimes onions or bacon are also added. Cheesecakes are eaten hot.

Cheesecake is one of the most popular flans in Switzerland . It is offered year-round in practically every bakery and is usually sold in pieces. Small round cheese cakes are also popular. These are called Chäs / Käschüechli in the dialect throughout German-speaking Switzerland , while the large cheesecake is regionally known as Chäs / Käschueche, -flade, -tünne, -wäh, -wääje etc., in French-speaking Switzerland as gateau au fromage . The as in Germany cheesecake known sweet cake of cream cheese on the other hand in Switzerland cheese cake or cheesecake called.

Cheesecakes and onion tarts are traditionally eaten at the Basel Carnival and the Bern onion market as well as other autumn markets. In the Bernese Oberland there is also a known custom of eating cheesecake after Lent on Easter Monday . In the Catholic regions of Switzerland, the cheesecake as well as the sweet flan is traditionally offered by the bakeries on Fridays.

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  1. ↑ a b Flat cake with topping. Small language atlas of German-speaking Switzerland (KSDS), accessed on October 6, 2011 (for the various dialect forms see map).
  2. ↑ a b Foire de Chaindon. (No longer available online.) In: Bieler Tagblatt. September 1, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 6, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bielertagblatt.ch  
  3. ↑ Free «Chäschueche» for guests. In: Jungfrau newspaper. April 25, 2011, accessed October 6, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Früchtewähen / Gâteaux aux fruits / Torte di frutta in the database of Culinary Heritage of Switzerland