Wähe (Fruit Cake)

Wähe is a traditional Swiss fruit cake.

Wähe

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Ingredients

• 100g flour (five huge soup spoons)
• a pinch of salt
• 20g butter
• a bit of water (four or five soup spoons)
• a bit of butter for the pan
• some ground nuts (a small handful of hazelnut is traditional, I like almonds)
• some fruit (nine or ten plums, apricots, or an apple or two, or some rhubarb)
• 1 egg
• a tea spoon of sugar (optional)
• some milk (less than a cup)

Preparation

Prepare dough: mix flour, salt and butter; then add water. Knead into dough. Rub pan with butter, spread dough as if it were a pizza. Put ground nuts on the dough.

Prepare fruit and spread them on the nuts. Put this into the oven: 180°C, with extra heat from below, for 10min.

Prepare liquid: egg, sugar, fill up with milk until you have about a cup full (about 100ml). Open the oven, pour this over the fruit, and keep the oven going for another 20min.

Add Curd

If you like it thicker, add a bit of curd to the liquid.

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