My grandma's Dalken recipe

Ingredients for 5 servings:

• 100 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cube of yeast
• 300 g wheat flour
• 200 g rye flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• 125 ml milk
• 80 g butter
• n. B. cinnamon sugar
• Plum jam

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Rest time approx. 3 hours 45 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 4 hours 40 minutes

Warm the milk slightly (max. 37 degrees Celsius), mix with 50g of sugar and the yeast, and let it rise for 20 minutes. Add the remaining sugar, eggs, softened butter, flour, and salt, and knead everything into a yeast dough. Let it rise until the dough has noticeably increased in volume. (I use a bread maker for this, as it’s always quite cool in my kitchen.) Then roll out the dough to about 2 cm thick and cut out circles about 6 cm in diameter using something like a drinking glass. Place the dough circles on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and let it rise again until they have visibly increased in volume. Then preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius (top/bottom heat) and place the baking sheet on the bottom rack of the oven. Bake for about 8-10 minutes, until the surface is lightly browned. Remove the dalken and deep-fry until well browned (they will be quite dark). Then let it cool, spread with plum jam and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.