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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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2006.0. "Knodeln, Paradise and round things..." by TAVIS::JUAN () Thu Sep 21 1989 04:55

    Some 15 years ago I had the oportunity to taste "Knodeln" in the 
    house of a friend of mine: This is supposed to be a dessert from
    Central - Eastern Europe (Tommy's mother was from Checoslovakia),
    but I heard there are also Hungarian and Polish versions.

    After dinner, a huge silver soup bowl was brought to the dinner table,
    the lid open and a cloud of steam filled the room. The hostess took one
    of the knodeln out of the bowl - round white balls, 2-3 inches dia. -
    served it on a plate, and with gereat ceremony opened it: inside there
    was an apricot, covered with the white dough. As the dough ball was 
    opened, the most exquisit perfume of apricot covered us.

    The hostess poured a little melted butter (cholesterol - forgive me!)
    and on top some cinnamon.

    I have proof this dessert is served everyday in Paradise, and is 
    enough for me to thrive to go there...

    If someone has a recipe for the above, please, share it with other mortals.

    Best regards,

    Juan-Carlos


    P.S.: I tried to enter this sometime ago, with no luck.

    P.P.S.: Knodeln, means in German something like round balls. There
            is an unrelated Jewish dish called "Kneidlach" or Matzoh balls
            a main course and not a dessert, also worth trying.

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2006.2Wohl bekomm'sFRNEDI::BAPISTELLAUnd alles ist voller Sterne...Fri Sep 22 1989 11:32124
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    Hi Juan,

    the following is the recipe for "Marillenknoedel".  I hope that my
    translation makes sense.

    (All measurements are metric or German!)
                   
    1    Kilogram apricots
    1    sugar cube per apricot
    50   grams butter
    200  grams MAGERQUARK (see notes below)
    2    egg yolk
    �    teaspoon salt
    300  grams wheat flour
    ------------------
    3    liter water
    2    teaspoons salt
    ------------------
    50   grams butter
    4    table spoons SEMMELBROESEL (ground dry unsweetened rolls)
    3    table spoons sugar mixed with � teaspoon cinnamon

    ******************

    Wash apricots, dry with kitchen paper or towel, remove kernels(?),
    fill with 1 sugar cube.
    ------------------
    Beat butter until creamy, add Quark, � teaspoon salt, and eggyolk.
    Stirr while adding flour slowly.  If dough is not smooth enough add a
    LITTLE water.
    Roll out dough to a thickness of about 0,5 cm (approx. � inch).
    Cut dough into squares 6 by 6 cm (approx. 2� by 2� inch).
    Put apricot on square and form "Knoedel" with hands.
    ------------------
    Fill large pot with water, add 2 teaspoons salt, bring to a boil.
    Put Knoedel into boiling water and reduce heat.
    Let them simmer for about 7-10 minutes, depending on consistency and
    thickness of dough.
    Take Knoedel out of the water, drain and put in pre-heated bowl.  Keep
    in a warm place.
    -----------------
    Melt 50 grams butter in a pan, add Semmelbroesel, stirr until
    Semmelbroesel get brown.
    _________
    Serve, pour butter/Semmelbroesel mixture over it and sprinkle with
    cinnamon-sugar.

    Guten Appetit!

    Felix

    P.S.  Due to difficulties getting quark in th US I added an excerpt of
    a topic regarding quark.  The conference is DCC::GERMANY.

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Note 99.2                     Translation for QUARK                      2 of 11
COVERT::COVERT "John R. Covert"                      24 lines  10-AUG-1989 06:16
             -< Kathy could drive up to a dairy in Lancaster, Pa. >-
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Quark is curd, as in "eating her curds and whey."

If you could get un-cheesed cottage cheese (Quarkk�se), you'd have it.

	Curd -- precipitate or coagulum formed in milk subjected
		to the action of rennet or acidified by lactic
		ferments.  It is a result of the precipitation of
		casein and contains varying proportions of butter,
		depending on whether or not the milk has previously
		been skimmed.  When curd is obtained by the action
		of rennet, the serum still contains a considerable
		proportion of casein, which can be precipitated by
		a second coagulation.  The serum of milk curdled
		by acidification contains very little casein.

		Curd can be eaten as it is or with cream.  Curdling
		is the first operation in the manufacture of cheese.

I've never seen curd sold in a food store in the U.S.  Try a dairy.

/john

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Note 99.5                     Translation for QUARK                      5 of 11
WNPV01::HANLON                                        9 lines  10-AUG-1989 20:41
                          -< Quark + USA = schwierig >-
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    It appears not too many dairies distribute the fresh stuff (perhaps
    in some parts of Pennsylvania and I hear in Washington State) but
    the Sahne Quark (don't know the difference but I assume it's less
    perishable) will likely be avilable at most deli's with the name
    "German" in their name.  One deli owner I spoke with said he has
    received back good reports on its use in German cheese cake.  Good
    Luck!
    
    ---Chris

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Note 99.9                     Translation for QUARK                      9 of 11
HOTJOB::HELANDER                                     14 lines  28-AUG-1989 13:11
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    	While visiting Finland some years ago, my wife and I were intro-
    duced to the stuff (rahka in Finnish).  I asked a cousin about it
    and she gave us the following instructions:
    
    	Put 2 liters of whole milk into a wide casserole dish that can
    be heated in the oven.  Let it turn into buttermilk; when it is
    soured, place the casserole into a warm, not hot, oven.  Draw a
    knife through the buttermilk to break it up into squares.  When
    the curds (the thick stuff) has separated from the whey (the thin
    milky stuff) strain it through cheesecloth.  The 2 liters of milk
    should produce about 300 grams of curds.