Title: Good Old German "Streuselkuchen"
Categories: German Bread Cake
Yield: 1 Servings

500	g	Flour
40	g	Yeast
50	g	Butter
100	g	Sugar
1/4	l	Milk (I take a little more,
		Makes the dough raise
		Easier)
2		Eggs
1	pn	Salt
		Streusel:
300	g	Flour
150	g	Butter
150	g	Sugar
1		Eggyolk
1		Vanilla sugar
		Cinnamon at taste

I suppose you know how to make a yeast dough. If not, there are two methods, the cold and the warm one. As the cold one is fast to describe I give you this one: Dissolve sugar and yeast in the cold milk and add all to the other ingredients whereby the butter should be rather soft. Mix to a soft dough and leave it well covered overnight in the fridge. Next day you knead through the dough using a little additional flour so that it will not be too sticky and place it on a baking sheet which has been lined with baking paper. You can either use a rolling pin to smoothen the dough or just use your fingers for it sticking them now and then into the flour- pot.

Now you make the "Streusel" by mixing all ingredients by hand and crumbling them into small bits. Distribute the Streusel evenly on the dough, cover it with a towel and leave on a warm place for at least half an hour. The dough should be well risen. (I myself place the baking sheet in my oven - without a towel - and raise the temperature to not more than 50 C for else you will kill the yeast, and I leave the oven-door just a litlle bit open.)

When the dough has risen to nearly double-height I close the door and bake the Streuselkuchen at 180-200 C for 25 minutes until looks light golden.

I wish you a good appetite, Ingeborg. From: inge@moritz.escape.de (Ingeborg Moritzen)

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