Knees
Knieküchle even Kiachl or Auszogne ( bair. , To High German Unbroken ; other names under #Synonyme ) are a traditional pastry of southern Germany , Austria and South Tyrol cuisine . They are a particular and Bavarian Swabia , Old Bavaria , Franconia , Austria , South Tyrol and Thuringia widespread donuts .
Manufacturing
The Küchle usually consist of pure yeast dough , but this can vary slightly from region to region. For example, adding raisins is very common . The dough is shaped so that the cakes are very thin in the middle and have an even thick bead on the outside. They are baked swimming in hot lard and sprinkled with powdered sugar. A knee bun has a thin white border on the bead, as it floats on the hot fat during frying.
In the past, Knieküchle were mainly baked during harvest time and on high festive days, especially for church fairs or dults . In Franconia, a distinction is sometimes made between “Catholic” and “Protestant” kitchens, depending on whether the hollow (Catholic) or the elevation (Protestant) is covered with powdered sugar. The Tiroler Kiachl is eaten with cranberry jam, sauerkraut or sprinkled with powdered sugar and is a popular dish at Tyrolean Christmas markets .
Legend of the name of Knieküchle
Knieküchle get their name because the Franconian bakers supposedly pulled the dough above the knee so that it is so thin in the middle that you can read a love letter through it. Hence the saying: “If you want to bag a nice bowl of cake, you need braade knees” (If you want to bake nice bowls, you need wide knees). Correspondingly, other terms are Schüssalasküchle and, mildly ironic alluding to the broad knees, Catholic Küchle.
Synonyms
Donuts or fritters ( Kiacherl or Kiachl ), simply noodles ( Upper Bavaria ), in Lower Bavaria also Rottnudel or Kiarchen , in the Upper Palatinate Käichla , in Upper Franconia Krapfn and Runda Kung (Küchla) , in the Swabian (Fenschter-) Kiachle , in Baden Shard , in Tyrol and the Innviertel Kiachl and in the rest of Austria Bauernkrapfen , in the Itzgründischen area pancakes .
See also
- Lángos - Hungarian bread specialty
- Gnocchi fritti - (literally: baked knees) pastry specialty of Emilia-Romagna
Web links
- How Küchle, Knieküchle and Kiachle became Lángos in Hungary
- A for drawn out Bavarian Schmankerl-ABC from donaukurier.de