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Little deer horns (notched fried pastries)

  • Serves 6 (about 24 pieces)
  • about 1 hour
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1796Breeschu radsini.

Modernizētslpp. 345 · PDF 359
6 porcijas

The book gives no quantities; the amounts below are ours. It says only that the pieces are as thick as a little finger.

Method

6 soļi
  1. Mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon, lemon zest and salt. Add the yolks and most of the cream and knead to a firm dough that you can roll between your hands without it sticking. Add the rest of the cream only if needed. Rest it for 20 minutes.
  2. Divide the dough into 24 pieces (about 15 g each). Roll each into a rope about 1.5 cm thick and 8–9 cm long, a little thinner at the ends.
  3. With a sharp knife, make 3 or 4 slanting cuts along one side of each rope, about halfway through, so it looks like an antler with tines. Bend each piece into a crescent so the cuts open out.
  4. Heat the fat in a deep, heavy pan (no more than a third full) to 165–170 °C.
  5. Fry 5 or 6 at a time for 3–4 minutes, turning them, until evenly brown. Break the first one open to check it is cooked through.
  6. Drain on kitchen paper. Serve warm or cold, dusted with cinnamon sugar if you like.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the book makes a stiff dough from flour, egg yolks, sweet cream, sugar, cinnamon and grated lemon peel, firm enough to roll by hand, shapes oblong round pieces as thick as a little finger that look like little horns, notches them with a knife, bends them and fries them brown in butter. The amounts, sizes, frying temperature and times are ours. The book doesn't sugar them.

The name

"deer horns", from the notched, branching shape. Similar fried pastries are still made in southern Germany (Hirschhörnle) and Norway (hjortetakk), though those are usually raised with hartshorn salt.

Texture

there is no raising agent, so they come out crisp and dense, like a fried biscuit. Fry them a little cooler than the twisted fritters (08-043) so the middle cooks before the outside gets too dark.

Frying fat

see 08-043. Use clarified butter (08-056) or ghee, not ordinary butter, and the same care with hot fat.

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