This is a tough question to answer and maybe you´ll miss different things in different situations. Sometimes family and friends and sometimes just those little things such as BREZEL!
Before we moved to the US I would have never thought about baking my own brezels because you find them just everywhere you go. But what if you could get them only once a week at the farmers market?
Here is a little piece -or should I say bite- of Germany (this is a German recipe translated in English, please excuse the maybe not so perfect cooking terminology)
Ingredients
500 g (1 pound 2 ounces) all purpose flour
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup milk
75 g (2 1/2 ounces) butter
1 pack dry yeast (7 g)
1 teaspoon salt
1.5 liter (6 cups) water
3 tablespoons baking soda
Sieve flour into a bowl and intermix salt. Heat water and melt butter in it, add cold milk, resolve yeast in mixture (make sure that mixture isn´t too hot before adding yeast). Add this liquid to the flour and make a dough.
Cover bowl and let rise in a warm spot for 45 min until dough has doubled its size.
Boil water and add baking soda (be careful, water will effervesce).
Punch down dough, cut in 12-16 pieces and form stick or rolls.
Put them into the gently boiling water until they swim at the surface (approx. 5 sec.).
Put them on a baking tray with baking paper. Add kosher salt. Cut 1/2 inch deep into the dough where you want the dough to break open.
Bake 30 min. at 325°F (160°C)
Think sticks, rolls, brezels or even an octopus (I made this one for my daughters under-the-sea-themed birthday party)
Which culinary things do you miss while living aboard? Please share!
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