This post is a special one for me, because it is post Number 100 and because I write my first post 1 year ago. How time flies!
But back to my topic: Weckmann. Sarah already asked me for a recipe here.
Weckmann comes from the words Weckchen (that are sweet rolls in rhineland) and Mann (man), so it means sweet roll man.
On 11. November, the day of Saint Martin, children goes through the streets in a latern procession, singing songs about the saint. Afterwards every child gets a weckmann.
Because weckmänner have a very fluffy and soft crumb I decided to use water roux. It is a mixture that contains of 1 part flour and 5 parts water and which is heated to 65°C. It cause the starch to gelatinization, so it binds more water, which make the bread softer and fluffier and enhanced the shelf life.
It works very fine with my weckmänner Continue reading
I like yoghurt in bread very much, as I told before. Yoghurt gives a hint of sourly taste to the bread and elongates the shelf live. So when I saw the recipe for yoghurt rolls at 
After our lab moved to the new bio center we are now nearly back to everyday life. Some things are not working as they should, but it gets better every day! In our coffee room we miss the new kitchen (it will be delivered later this month) but we have already tables, chairs, and a coffee machine, so we have all things which are essential for a nice break. Thats why I could bring my birthday cake (with a month delay).
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I do not bake often cake just for my boyfrind and me, because this means eating days and days the same cake! But since I got a small springform (Diameter: 18 cm) for Christmas last year,I can bake tiny little cakes now which are very fast eaten 😉
Autumn means to me: red leaves, apple scent and orange pumpkins. So what is a better bread for autumn then a pumpkin bread?
I am back from my holidays and I am back in the chaos. The lab I am working in is moving into a new building and after two years of postponeing the university preponed it now. So instead of having a whole week to pack my stuff in lab only the weekend was left. When we came back I go dirctly to the lab. I was so relived that I sorted everything in advance!
