The Germknödel Incident

To be, or not to be a Germknödel, thats the Zwetschken !?

To be fair, I will report from time to time also about my cooking disasters, which happen from time to time. It might take a while to tell this story and I hope you have a good laugh.

If you try it yourself, let me know if you did succeed !

To clarify, we start with the basic recipe, which is not that complicated. Whats a Germknödel ?
Its a Yeast dough dumpling filled with plum relish.
The Ingredients are:
500 g flour
20 g yeast
1 Egg
250 ml milk
70g butter and a bit salt

Mix the ingredients together to a nice dough, than let it rest for 20 minutes, form than this kind of balls, which are filled in the middle with the plum relish.

After leave it rest again in a warm place for 40 Minutes.

Than the grow further, the tricky part is to form them good so the filling stays inside.
After the should be thrown into boiling water for 12 minutes, 6 minutes on each side.

After serve them with vanilla sauce and melted butter.

Here comes the disaster, it seems the water wasn't hot enough or the dough not consistent enough, so the final dumpling tasted like dough, not like it should taste. Also we couldn't find any poppy seeds here in Ireland which should go on top....
My friends and I sitting there trying to eat our cooking result decided to make the best out of it, give all of the dumplings in a form and an other 20 minutes in the oven.
That kind of rescued the cooking night.

However, as you can tell from the pictures it isn't a ideal result, check it out here how they should look like.

Thanks God that day we cooked also the Irish Stew,
which was very tasty and filling :-)

If you try this recipe, let me know how you get on.