Hamburger Schmalzkuchen with little yeast

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g flour
• 80 ml milk
• 5 g fresh yeast or 1/4 pack dry yeast
• 40 g sugar
• 40 g lard, or clarified butter if necessary
• 1 egg(s)
• possibly lemon peel
• possibly vanilla
• 1 pinch of salt
• some flour, for processing
• Fat, for frying
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 50 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 minute; Total time approx. 1 hour 11 minutes

Ominette’s refined recipe

Put the flour in a bowl and make a well in the bowl. Crumble in the yeast and a little sugar and mix with a little of the lukewarm milk. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes. Add the remaining milk, a pinch of salt, sugar, lard, eggs, and lemon zest and vanilla (sugar, flavoring, or pulp) to taste. Knead vigorously until the dough easily pulls away from the sides of the bowl, adding a little more flour if necessary. Cover and let rise for another 10 minutes. You can also make the dough in a bread maker. Then add all ingredients except the flour and salt to the bread maker. The yeast should be crumbled. Add the flour last, before kneading the dough for 30 minutes using the dough program with heat. Add the salt halfway through the kneading time. Roll out the dough on a floured board to a thickness of 2-3 mm and cut into finger-width strips. Since yeast is used more sparingly in this recipe to avoid an unpleasant yeasty taste in the sometimes raw center during frying, the yeast must be well-established. Therefore, cover and let rise again in a warm place for 20 minutes. Cut the dough strips into 1-2 cm long rectangles. Heat any frying oil to approximately 150°C and carefully drop the dough pieces into the dough in batches from a board or a spatula. Stir and separate the “twins,” fry briefly until light brown, ideally with light “bellies,” and drain on kitchen paper. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve warm. Makes about 5 servings of 100 g each. Definitely more sinful than healthy. But a small portion of dough cake makes the happiest anyway.