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Yeast Dough Fruit Cake

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 175 g butter (clarified)
• 0.12 l milk
• 35 g starch
• 2 pcs eggs
• 1 tablespoons sugar (heaped tablespoons)
• 1 kg apples, plums, cherries, gooseberries, or blueberries
• sugar (for sprinkling) (a little)
• cinnamon (a little)
• butter (for topping) (a little)

Instructions

1. Prepare a loose yeast dough from flour, butter, milk, starch, eggs, and sugar, let it rise, roll it out thinly, and transfer it to a greased baking sheet.
2. Brush with melted butter and top with the prepared fruit, place small pieces of butter on the fruit, and sprinkle thickly with sugar and cinnamon.
3. Let the cake rise well in a warm place and bake quickly until done, without letting the dough dry out.
4. For cherries, gooseberries, or blueberries, sprinkle the dough with crushed rusks beforehand; it is best to warm the fruit before placing it on the cake.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.