Shrove Tuesday Donuts (from Medieval Germany)

Описание: Recipe for Donuts (from Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin):
How Shrove-Tuesday doughnuts are made in Nuremberg

Grate Parmesan cheese or any other cheese which is quite dry. Beat eggs into it and also mix a little good wheat flour with it so that the doughnuts do not become too crisp from the cheese. Make the dough firm enough that it does not run. After that make an egg dough as for a tart, make long narrow flat cakes and with a spoon lay a small lump of cheese dough, as large as you would like to have it, in the middle of the flat cake and wrap it over. And with both thumbs press each heap well into the flat cake forming a small bun, then cut it off with a small metal blade. When you would fry them, you should not let the fat become too hot, instead just after it has melted, lay quite a few of them in the pan, fry them slowly. Shake the pan, then they will become like marbles.

Recipe for tart dough (from recipe 70):
Bake the dough for the tart. That is made like so: take two eggs and beat them. Afterwards stir flour therein until it becomes a thick dough. Pour it on the table and work it well, until it is ready. After that take somewhat more than half the dough and roll it into a flat cake as wide as you would have your tart.

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