Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen : German Corner 3 - life goes on

[SSSandy2]

Other thread was getting a bit full. Alles wie gehabt :
"Deutsch or English
Native speakers, expats, anyone
From Brezeln to Bier

Please don't ask if you join in, everyone is welcome "

How do we always manage to mention Rosamunde bloody Pilcher on this thread?

Glad that everything is going so well with the move, admylin.

It's annoying isn't it MmeLindt that it is really not worth working when it's all going to be taken away from you again? I do want to work (even if it means less time on here), I just don't really see a way around childcare issues atm. So I'll probably do a few hours teaching here and there until the dc are old enough to be left alone.

There is no escape from Rosamunde Pilcher. Where you go, she will follow (enter the daleks)

Maybe we should each write a Rosamunde Pilcher style novel about life in Germany. Mine is: Bloodied but not Beaten in Berlin and I see this dimwit unfortunate woman crashing from one bad relationship into the next, getting progressively worse but somehow I manage a tear-jerking happy ending, perhaps as the sun is setting on Lake Wannsee or maybe it has to be the Brandenburg Gate.

Hupa can write one about country life: "Wilkommen zu Hause Frau Doktor" or soemthing like that.

Don't bother working in Geneva then ML after all you have the book to write - and then there is always skiing.

wondering should we start the search for the ultimate German cheesecake recipe?

Don't think we can have ML's MIL's quark and kiwi though, sounds a bit extravagant to me. Did it taste nice the first time though ML, 15 years ago or whenever you first became acquainted with it?

Perhaps I could write 'Schatten und Sonne im Schwarzwald' about a lonely woman who has an affair with a handsome but troubled cuckoo clock maker. Lots of anguished scenes follow before the tear-jerking happy ending.

Actually I've never seen a Rosamunde Pilcher film all the way through despite mil trying to make me watch with her.

I will have to get mil's cheesecake recipe. I think she uses Hefeteig which I find a bit scary. Then she uses quark and something else for the topping. at Kiwisahnetorte. It sounds like one of those things that was popular in the early 80's when kiwis first became widely available. I don't think kiwis mix with dairy products personally

Oh that's very good taipo. I like the cuckoo clock touch. Watching a Rosamunde Pilcher film through to the finish - cannot be done, if you ask me unless you have someone handcuff you to a chair.

If we set them in Germany, we need all this Lokalkolarit but they don't have to live in crumbling old Schlösse, do they? We'll jsut assume the Schlösse were all bombed.

OK let's be brave and have a go at the Hefeteig (bet it just comes in a Dr. Oetker packet though!). So the difference between German and English cheesecake is in the quark?

Dr Oetker is the way to go me thinks. Mil makes everything from scratch and frowns on any ready mixes. As for shop-bought cake - she would rather eat slugs I think than let it pass her lips.

Well I know everyone raves about German bakery and cakes but I much prefer my french gateau au chocolat - or a good old piece of flapjack!
Some of those Dr Oetker things are a con though aren't they, you have to add three quarters of the ingredients from your own stuff - so what is actually in the box?

I mailed you SSSandy by the way.

now now don't go all Frenchy on us. We can't have that. Actually when I was in Paris, I tried a few pastries and things from our local bakery and they weren't that great, maybe it was the area - Pasteur whatever arrondissement that is, I don't know. Do like French eclairs though, they are not so heavy and they don't have that funny thick custard in them and we did have a nice apple tart there, quite light pastry

I like my own (Engish style) cakes better than the ones you get in the bakeries here but I really think it is just because that's a taste I acquired growing up. Not that they actually do taste better than German cakes IYSWIM.

Ooh la la, french food is better too!!

By the way, ds says English cheesecake is the best!

well I like a crunchy base to offset the soft filling a bit. I like cheesecake with a based made of smashed biscuits. What fun too smashing up biscuits! Is that how you make yours admylin?

Lol. I haven't made one for years but long ago I used to make the crushed biscuit base. Did you know that frozen cake Copenrath and ..something has strawberry cheesecake English style? It's not perfect but not bad either

Is MmeLindt off on holiday today? Back to Scotland I think. Finknottle must still be away too - no news for a while. I never get on MN when I go back home either.

No I didn't, tbh I have never been a big cheesecake fan, I like chocolate cakes, carrot cakes and nut cakes - almond or hazelnut things like that. I don't really like fruity cakes much.

Do you know what? I FORGOT dh's birthday today!!!!
I ws in the kitchen with dd who was eating breakfast, sort of pushing it round the bowl and he came in and sort of mumbled, oh it's my birthday today. Bless him. He was like a lost little boy.

My excuse is having been sick for 10 days, the days have had much of a sameness and I just hadn't been aware of the date. Isn't that embarrassing though?! Luckily he was off to Hamburg this morning and comes back tomorrow so I can bake a cake (he only likes his Dutch apple cake) which is abit like apple pie without a "lid" on it and I can organise a present, card.

Think finks isn't planning on being online much during the holidays, sounded like she had a pretty full schedule. Hope she's having a relaxing time of it in the UK thoguh. Yes, I think she'll be there now.

Will you be going away at all taipo? Any plans?

Can't remember offhand when exactly Mme was heading back to Scotland. Wonder if she'll encounter our idol Rosamunde again?!

You know I have a secret dream a la Rosamund - one day my first true love will find me at last and take me back to France to live in his house and I'll wait for him coming back from the hunt and then cook the rabbit and pheasant he brings and then the big family all sit round the farmhouse kitchen table and drink strong red wine and eat the meat. Strange dream really considering I'd never touch a rabbit!

Oh you'll have to make it up to him big time now SSSandy! I've never forgotten dh's birthday completely but I did forget this year to give him the present from his mum which she had given me a couple of weeks earlier and I'd hidden in a cupboard somewhere. Of course she phoned and asked about it and dh said 'what present?'. Aaaargh another black mark in the book from mil!

I'm not keen on fruity cakes either, especially not with the gelatine guss on top. Cheesecakes have to be plain (and absolutely no raisins) for my liking. I also like a good old English sponge cake. Coffee walnut is my favourite. Actually dh's favourite cheesecake is my mum's lime and ginger one. We won't mention that to mil. Or maybe I will if she tries to make me watch Rosamunde Pilcher again....

ah you old romantic. I'd eat it but I wouldn't skin it

Why did you break up with him?

I know Taipo. Feeling really bad about it now! Usually I have a nice surprise waiting for him when he wakes up which is usually about the time dd and I are heading out the door to school.

I was sort of mumbling on about,we'll go to a show at the weekend etc etc and I'll organise it but then I rmembered there isn't much on at the moment other than a musical about Sissy - and that doesn't sound too good, does it?!

There must be something you could see - although I suppose it's the wrong time of year for shows. How about a nice romantic meal somewhere?

We're off to France in August for 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to it but I'm hoping summer makes a return before then.

think I'd better investigate taipo. France sounds nice, I should think it'll be nice and sunny again by August.

I like the idea of the books SSSandy. Mind you I´ve managed to avoid Rosalinde Pilcher until now, although FIL loves the books and the films.

Can I ask those of you who are good at baking about self raising flour. I can´t get it here and obviously in all my English cook books it´s a key ingredient for cakes. I realise I can add baking powder to normal flour, but how much? I´ve tried looking it up on the net, but get a different answer everytime. Any ideas?

We´re off to legoland tomorrow which the kids are really excited about. It´s miles from us, but I won a competition with jako-o. We´ve got one days entry plus a nights accommodation plus a 100 euro Gutschein to spend while we´re there. Have any of you been? Anything you can recommend as a must do etc.?

Good news about the kitchen admylin - it sounds ike a really good deal.

Glad the party went well Mmelindt - it´s always such a relief when they´re over I think.

Any more talk of cake and I´ll have to go and buy one soon. I really like streusel with sauerkirschen or pflaumen, but will generally eat anything if it´s sweet.

Hi hupa! I've made sponge cakes just using flour and baking powder. The first time I put in a whole packet of baking powder for 250g of flour and it rose far too much. Now I use half a packet which seems to work fine.

Legoland trip sounds good. Am very as I never win anything. I've never been so can't recommend anything. Let us know how it went. We're quite near EuropaPark. Has anyone been there?

I never win anything either, so was more than a little surprised, but pleased. I´ve heard that Europa park is good, but haven´t been myself - dd and ds are still too young to make it worthwhile going.