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Wheat Flour Puffs

8 servings

Ingredients

• 0.75 l warm milk
• 1.5 cup clarified butter
• 4 pcs Eggs
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 35 g Yeast
• 500 g fine flour
• 100 g Currants
• Cinnamon, crushed (a little)
• Salt (a little)
• Water (a little)

Instructions

1. Mix milk, butter, eggs, sugar, yeast, and salt with a little water.
2. Stir in the flour, beat the dough vigorously, combine with the warmed currants and cinnamon, and let rise slowly, covered, in a warm place.
3. Once the dough has risen well after 1½ hours, bake in an open cake pan with butter to form small cakes the size of a saucer, turning them only once they are completely dry on top.
4. Serve with tea.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.