Description
The site already has one ankowski pie, but the recipe is different from the original. And I want to introduce you to the history of this cake. The wife of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a cookbook. Recipes in "cookbook" wrote the Countess herself and her younger brother Stepan bers. In total there are 162 prescription. Almost every recipe in this Cook-book is associated with family tradition, has its own history. "Apple kvass Maria Nikolaevna" – younger sister of Leo Tolstoy; "the Elixir toothache Pelagia ilinichny" – thick aunt on my father's side; "Lemon kvass Marousi Maklakovo", a close friend of the Tolstoy family; "Candy Apple Maria Petrovna FET", wife of the poet Afanasii FET, etc. Particularly interesting is the fate of bankovskogo pie. The name of the pie is associated with the name of doctor of medical Sciences, family doctor family bers Nicholas Bogdanovich Anke. He handed the cake recipe mother-in thick Lyubov Alexandrovna bers, and one daughter. Sofya Andreyevna was taught to make pie ankowski chef Nicholas. Since no event in the Tolstoy family is not complete without this cake. According to the son of Tolstoy, Ilya, "a birthday without cake bankovskogo the same as Christmas without a tree..."
Ingredients
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Flour
450 g
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Butter
350 g
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Sugar
460 g
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Chicken egg
5 piece
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Lemon
2 piece
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Powdered sugar
3 Tbsp
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Water
50 ml
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Salt
0.25 tsp
Cooking
For starters, the original recipe: "One pound of flour, half a pound of butter, a quarter pound of pounded sugar, 3 egg yolks, one glass of water. Oil, that was straight from the cellar colder. To it stuffing: a quarter of a pound of butter rubbed, two eggs rubbed with the oil; half a pound of pounded sugar, the zest from two lemons to RUB on a grater and the juice from three lemons. Simmer until then, until as thick as honey." Our initial products after a modern adaptation to the test
Flour, cold butter pieces and sugar and salt loaded into the bowl of a food processor
Grind to fine crumbs
Pour in the eggs loose water and grind before the formation of lumps
Spread the dough on the Board and formed a lump.
Partial lump of dough into two pieces and each portion on a sheet of parchment roll out the cake, with a diameter of about 25 cm, exactly cutted form a circle.
Send circle of dough in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. 15 - 20 minutes. Bread should remain pale, only the edges should darken slightly. Also bake the second cake.
Take the products for the filling
Lemons with a grater, remove the zest and squeeze the juice. The juice must be not less than 200 ml.
In a saucepan pour the sugar, add the butter and eggs
All grind a wide spoon until smooth.
Pour in juice, add the zest and set on fire. Stirring constantly (!) bring mixture to boiling, diminish the fire and boil, stirring continuously, for 10 minutes until thick. Remove from the heat and completely cooled. Cold toppings like a thick jelly. Put the cake on a plate with half of the filling and cover with the second cake layer, remaining filling spread on the cake.
Sprinkle top of cake with powdered sugar through a strainer.
That's all. You can put the kettle on, invite all to the table and join...
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