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Challenge 19: onions - the thing that reminds me of Zwiebelkuchen
Sunday, May 21st, 2017 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
el_stapladorAlmost ten years ago, I was an au pair for my aunt and her family in a village near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. On one occasion we went to a fair and picked up a bottle or two of Federweisser - very, very young wine. And my aunt made Zwiebelkuchen to go with it. Because that's what you do.
'Every family,' says my aunt, 'has its own recipe.' Hers is a lovely tangly oniony mess on a bread base.
The following recipe is not really Zwiebelkuchen. In fact, the book I got it out of calls it Farmhouse Potato Pie, but to me it's much more about the onions. It's in no way authentic, but I find that it's very evocative. It's a hassle, so I don't make it often, but it's gorgeous, so I do make it sometimes. It's the right sort of hassle (for me, at least): you can do a bit at a time, and go and have a bath while the base is chilling, etc, and the washing up isn't too bad if you do it as you go along.
I usually have it in the autumn, with cider, but it's worked very nicely in May, with a Spanish red wine. So there you go.
( Recipe under the cut )
'Every family,' says my aunt, 'has its own recipe.' Hers is a lovely tangly oniony mess on a bread base.
The following recipe is not really Zwiebelkuchen. In fact, the book I got it out of calls it Farmhouse Potato Pie, but to me it's much more about the onions. It's in no way authentic, but I find that it's very evocative. It's a hassle, so I don't make it often, but it's gorgeous, so I do make it sometimes. It's the right sort of hassle (for me, at least): you can do a bit at a time, and go and have a bath while the base is chilling, etc, and the washing up isn't too bad if you do it as you go along.
I usually have it in the autumn, with cider, but it's worked very nicely in May, with a Spanish red wine. So there you go.
( Recipe under the cut )
