Sauce cake

Sauce cake

Sauce cake or sauces Gingerbread (in Austria even grater Gingerbread or potato pancakes ) are only slightly sweetened, simple gingerbread , the darker the refinement and binding sauces serve such. B. that of sauerbraten and game dishes . They can also be used for red cabbage and other hearty dishes. Sauce cakes are particularly well known in south and south-east German and Bohemian cuisine.

The simple gingerbread cookies are seasoned with various spices such as cardamom , cinnamon , cloves , allspice , coriander , nutmeg , regional macis , aniseed and ginger .

Sauce cake is finely cut or grated soaked in liquids such as water, milk , cream or wine and then cooked in the sauce. In some regions, sauce cakes also form the basis of tart baked goods or are used as an ingredient in mainly winter desserts, for example as a filling for baked apples .

Web links

• Leupoldt sauce cake (accessed October 1, 2015)