plights or maybe the trials and tribulations of domesticity - baking nuca si mic 'rolls'
oh how i long to write so early in the morning in ro and sometimes i do but today a little headache - maybe sugar overload from yesterday sampling the baked goods that i made for Paşte (Easter)....while i'm not a big religious girl in fact borderline atheist who wavers back and forth - more of a fan of science to hold my beliefs together ....i digress again. ok but i love tradition!!!! tradition (sing it! you know that tune from fiddler on the roof) love that musical too and played a character in the play in scola....again i digress.
back to tradition - bunica and mama mea si copilor - yep we used to make yummy goodies that you couldn't buy in the store in the states - namely nut and poppy seed rolls (which you can buy anytime of the year here and damn they're good - and i might say eating them regularly has not made them any less delicious) we would make these yummy goodies for easter and xmas along with lots and lots of other delicious things. the recipe is called 2 hour nut roll - hahahah - yeah right .
ok so i made them yesterday - this is also the first time i have baked since i've been here. so that means i didn't have all the luxuries of my past life - such as a blender and/or a good old fashioned bolt it to the table meat grinder (which by the way i used to have and NEVER ground meat in it) the meat grinder was only to grind the nuts for these tasty treats. i still need a blender but not for this recipe, that's for another recipe and frozen margaritas. also other obstacles here like my beautiful thermal baking pans that i shipped here because damn they're fabulous - well they don't fit in my cuptor :( this i knew though since i unpacked that box (deterent to previous baking desires) and yes that's right i can only bake one tray of whatever at a time in my cuptor. well cuptorile nu au temp gauges either. so it's guess how hot i am and try to bake - there is only a little picture - well 3 to be exact 1. light me, 2. low flame, 3. high flame. so luckily i guessed correctly based on my other intermitent oven adventures....
pauza from this blog right now...trials and tribs to continued dupa scoala must run now to get educated in the limba buna....
ahhh m-am intors acasa....sunt frustrat cu procesul de învațare (nu stiu i mean learning) ok since i started this post in engleza i will complete it in english...
so i chopped and i chopped and i chopped some more until nuca were pretty much aok - mix cu some cream si zahar and voila. mic a/k/a poppy seeds needed to be cooked for a few minutes with some other stuff but i didn't do that - got a bad recipe for that -in the states used to buy them prepared for baking. so they're not as tasty. but ok - problemo with this even if they are prepared - when u eat them they get stuck in ur teeth - VERY attractive look i might add. i made the dough and what the hell i was already a baking maniac chained to the cuptor for the day so i made cookies too and that's what i needed the blender for to make the oatmeal a flour like consistency...so instead i used them whole and they taste mighty good. of course i'm pufoasa (a little fat around the waist from winter) so the intention is to give all of these tasty treats away with a few cookies and a piece or 2 of nut/poppy seed roll.
so for the good of the world i now give u buni's recipe....
ingredients
dough - u'll need a rolling pin for this stuff
1 kg/1000 gr faine - flour
200 gr unt - butter (make sure it's soft)
1 tsp sare - salt
3 tbsp zahar - sugar
2 pachete drojdie uscata - dry yeast
100-125 ml lapte cald- about 1/4 cup milk (warm)
3 oua amestecat- eggs mixed
300 gr smântână - 1 cup sour cream
how to...
dissolve yeast in warm milk
mix butter with sugar and eggs then add salt and flour to the mixture. slowly add sour cream. add yeast mixture (it should have bubbled up a little) blend - knead until this mixture 'leaves the side of the bowl'
seperate - roll out dough - thin - spread with filling - roll up and place on greased baking pan seam side down - let them rise for 1 hour then bake @350F or low icon on cuptors in ro for 35-40 minutes.
atat!
filling - nucă
a bunch of walnuts - 1 kg probabil - grind them best in one of those old fashioned metal meat grinders
smântână or cream
zahar, sugar
mix ingredients for nuca filling by sight and don't forget to sample the mixture as you go along
filling mic - poppy (the correct way to make it)
200 gr mic - poppy seed don't know the conversion cause they sell it here in 100 gr pks
100 gr smăntănâ/cream 1/3 cup
100 ml miere - honey
1/2 tsp grated fresh lemon rind - nu stiu cum spui 'rind' în romaneste
optional to grind poppy seeds in food processor or spice grinder. either way you must combine with the milk and honey and cook over low heat until thick. stir in the lemon rind. set aside to cool. oh and by the way lots of peeps like raisins and well you can add some to the filling but frankly they remind of little bugs when cooked in stuff so i say don't do it. lovely alone but in stuff - yuck.
eat when warm to produce a mild but fabulous tummy ache :)
back to tradition - bunica and mama mea si copilor - yep we used to make yummy goodies that you couldn't buy in the store in the states - namely nut and poppy seed rolls (which you can buy anytime of the year here and damn they're good - and i might say eating them regularly has not made them any less delicious) we would make these yummy goodies for easter and xmas along with lots and lots of other delicious things. the recipe is called 2 hour nut roll - hahahah - yeah right .
ok so i made them yesterday - this is also the first time i have baked since i've been here. so that means i didn't have all the luxuries of my past life - such as a blender and/or a good old fashioned bolt it to the table meat grinder (which by the way i used to have and NEVER ground meat in it) the meat grinder was only to grind the nuts for these tasty treats. i still need a blender but not for this recipe, that's for another recipe and frozen margaritas. also other obstacles here like my beautiful thermal baking pans that i shipped here because damn they're fabulous - well they don't fit in my cuptor :( this i knew though since i unpacked that box (deterent to previous baking desires) and yes that's right i can only bake one tray of whatever at a time in my cuptor. well cuptorile nu au temp gauges either. so it's guess how hot i am and try to bake - there is only a little picture - well 3 to be exact 1. light me, 2. low flame, 3. high flame. so luckily i guessed correctly based on my other intermitent oven adventures....
pauza from this blog right now...trials and tribs to continued dupa scoala must run now to get educated in the limba buna....
ahhh m-am intors acasa....sunt frustrat cu procesul de învațare (nu stiu i mean learning) ok since i started this post in engleza i will complete it in english...
so i chopped and i chopped and i chopped some more until nuca were pretty much aok - mix cu some cream si zahar and voila. mic a/k/a poppy seeds needed to be cooked for a few minutes with some other stuff but i didn't do that - got a bad recipe for that -in the states used to buy them prepared for baking. so they're not as tasty. but ok - problemo with this even if they are prepared - when u eat them they get stuck in ur teeth - VERY attractive look i might add. i made the dough and what the hell i was already a baking maniac chained to the cuptor for the day so i made cookies too and that's what i needed the blender for to make the oatmeal a flour like consistency...so instead i used them whole and they taste mighty good. of course i'm pufoasa (a little fat around the waist from winter) so the intention is to give all of these tasty treats away with a few cookies and a piece or 2 of nut/poppy seed roll.
so for the good of the world i now give u buni's recipe....
ingredients
dough - u'll need a rolling pin for this stuff
1 kg/1000 gr faine - flour
200 gr unt - butter (make sure it's soft)
1 tsp sare - salt
3 tbsp zahar - sugar
2 pachete drojdie uscata - dry yeast
100-125 ml lapte cald- about 1/4 cup milk (warm)
3 oua amestecat- eggs mixed
300 gr smântână - 1 cup sour cream
how to...
dissolve yeast in warm milk
mix butter with sugar and eggs then add salt and flour to the mixture. slowly add sour cream. add yeast mixture (it should have bubbled up a little) blend - knead until this mixture 'leaves the side of the bowl'
seperate - roll out dough - thin - spread with filling - roll up and place on greased baking pan seam side down - let them rise for 1 hour then bake @350F or low icon on cuptors in ro for 35-40 minutes.
atat!
filling - nucă
a bunch of walnuts - 1 kg probabil - grind them best in one of those old fashioned metal meat grinders
smântână or cream
zahar, sugar
mix ingredients for nuca filling by sight and don't forget to sample the mixture as you go along
filling mic - poppy (the correct way to make it)
200 gr mic - poppy seed don't know the conversion cause they sell it here in 100 gr pks
100 gr smăntănâ/cream 1/3 cup
100 ml miere - honey
1/2 tsp grated fresh lemon rind - nu stiu cum spui 'rind' în romaneste
optional to grind poppy seeds in food processor or spice grinder. either way you must combine with the milk and honey and cook over low heat until thick. stir in the lemon rind. set aside to cool. oh and by the way lots of peeps like raisins and well you can add some to the filling but frankly they remind of little bugs when cooked in stuff so i say don't do it. lovely alone but in stuff - yuck.
eat when warm to produce a mild but fabulous tummy ache :)
posted by gangsta gyrl at 06:49
1 Comments:
da! they are farkin delicious even if they ain't so pretty. i hope when u make them in ur cuptor that they look prettier then mine did this time 'round. well the baking pans are urs for the taking since they ain't never gonna fit in this here or my future apt's cuptor....but u'll have to venture to cluj to get 'em. i admit it, da, i am jealous that you have a food processor. does ur fabulous gift giving sister need another sister? :)
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