Buchty

Ingredients

Quantities for 12 servings.

• 600 g Flour
• 300 ml Warm milk
• 10 g Dry yeast
• 80 g Sugar
• 150 g Butter
• 3 piece Egg yolks
• 300 g Plum jam
• 250 g Curd cheese
• 1 piece Lemon zest
• 40 g Icing sugar
• 1 tsp Salt

Method

1. Dissolve the yeast with a spoon of sugar in the warm milk and leave it fifteen minutes, until it foams.
2. Knead a dough from the flour, sponge, yolks, remaining sugar, zest, salt and half the butter.
3. Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
4. Divide it into twelve balls and flatten each into a disc on your palm.
5. Put a spoon of jam or curd in each, seal the seam and turn them seam down.
6. Dip each bun in melted butter and pack them touching in a tin.
7. Prove them forty minutes, bake at 180 °C for thirty-five minutes and dust them with icing sugar.