Reformationsbroetchen

[Preparation]

Reformationsbroetchen

Category: Bakery products

Kitchen: german

Ingredients
Flour	500 g
Fresh yeast (dry)	40 g (2 tsp)
Milk	250 ml
Butter	50 g
Sugar	50 g
Chopped almonds	100 g
Corinka - small raisins	100 g
Grated zest of one lemon
Candied lemon	30 g
Strawberry jam (raspberry, currant, apricot
Ready-made icing or icing sugar
Salt in the dough	0.5 tsp

Cooking method

• Every year on October 31, on Reformation Day, in the early morning, a line is lined up in front of the door of almost all bakeries and bakeries in Leipzig. On this holiday, people come to buy themselves Reformed buns for tea.
• This festive bun in Saxony is a reminder of the tradition-rich day, October 31, 1517, in which Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the gates of the castle church in Wittenberg. Since then, over the centuries, these wonderful reformatory buns have been improved more and more. Pastry chefs and housewives continually came up with new changes and sophisticated additions.
• These buns are baked not only in Leipzig, but almost all over Saxony, Saxony - Anhalt and Thuringia. In Dresden, they are better known as Reformed Bread.
• It is not known for certain, but history is silent, in connection with which it was precisely the custom to bake buns that day. Reformed buns taste great, but what do they have to do with Martin Luther? Maybe after the proclamation of his reformist theses in the castle church to Wittenberg, Luther decided to refresh himself and were served similar buns or bread for dinner?
• Be it yeast dough or stollen dough, icing or marzipan, even if sometimes they don't look exactly like that, in any case they should be buns with curled corners, which symbolize the so-called Luther's rose. Rose has been the stamp of Martin Luther since 1530, with which he "signed" his letters as originals. Luther took this insignia from his family coat of arms. He used wood engraving as a seal, marking his business papers and correspondence with it. Luther's rose can be seen in Luther's home in Wittenberg. Historical monuments in Torgau, closely related to the Luther family, also adorn this sign. The Rose of Luther is a symbol of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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• Buns often look uneven - fruits, juicy jam or a handful of raisins can be located in the center, and they can be tempting to bite off a tidbit. But they have the same essence - a delicious bun with sugar icing and an "interesting" inner world.
• From the products below, we will get about 16 delicious, rich buns for the festive table. The dough in its composition and taste is somewhat reminiscent of Christmas stollen - denser and flakier than ordinary buns.
• Preparation
• I made half of the serving.
• Stir warm milk, a spoonful of flour, a spoonful of sugar and all the yeast in a small container and let the yeast rise for 15 minutes.
• Melt the butter, cool slightly and pour with the yeast that has come up into a bowl with flour.
• Start kneading the dough at low speed.
• At this time, prepare all the additives, chop the large raisins, chop the nuts.
• After a while add salt, knead and add the filling at the end of the replacement.
• Form the dough into a lump and let rise twice in a warm place.
• Roll out and arrange buns:
• After the second kneading and folding, roll out the dough approximately 0.5 cm thick, cut into 12 x 12 squares. Bend the corner of each square to the middle, press well.Cut each side of the resulting small square about 1 cm deep in the middle and lightly press the cuts inward, creating "rose petals".
• In the middle of each bun, put 0.5 teaspoons of jam or berries, sprinkled with sugar, nuts, dried apricots, etc.
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• Put on a baking sheet, cover with plastic foil, let rise in a warm place and bake in a preheated oven with steam for five minutes, without steam until tender.
• Decorate with icing or icing sugar.
• The rolls turned out to be tasty, fragrant, the dough is not very sweet, the emphasis on the filling - everything is as homemade.
• Recipe taken from the book: Oda Tietz "Backen wie in Sachsen", Leipzig 1995 and cooking. no

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms, thanks for the recipe and interesting story!

cute flowers! ... great-grandmother made such ... just don't remember whether she was a Protestant or a Lutheran ..

just don't remember whether she was a Protestant or a Lutheran ..

From wikipedia:
Protestantism as an ideology and an international historical force took shape in the 16th century, when Martin Luther and John Calvin led a mass movement against the spiritual monopoly of Catholicism.
Lutheranism is one of the oldest Protestant movements in Christianity. The very emergence of the concept of Protestantism is associated with Lutheranism, since it was Lutherans who began to be called Protestants after their protest in Speyer. It arose as a result of the reformation movement in Germany in the 16th century, and then during the formation of the state churches of the Scandinavian countries. The basic principles of the doctrine of the Lutheran Church were formulated during the struggle of Martin Luther and his associates against the abuse of the Roman Catholic Church.

Yeah, as if I wrote it wrong .. In my head I was thinking about Catholicism and Protestantism .. Just when Protestantism was writing, I remembered the movie "Martin Luther" ... ...

Cool what! And the description

Adorable buns and the history of their origin, Radochka, thank you!

[Olya]

Olya, very appetizing!

How did I miss such rolls, it will be necessary to cook, mine love with filling

[Lettera]

Lettera, make from any of your favorite pastry dough, and shape as shown! Very beautiful live !!! Thanks for reviewing the recipe!