Catholic Recipe: Shrove Tuesday Buns II
INGREDIENTS
- 3-3 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 3/4 cup milk
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- confectioners' sugar
Filling
- 3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup light cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or walnut extract
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
Details
Yield: 12 buns
Prep Time: 1 1/2 hours
Difficulty: ★★☆☆
Cost: ★★☆☆
For Ages: 15+
Origin: Sweden
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The day before Ash Wednesday is called Shrove Tuesday. People customarily confessed on this day and were called shrove or shriven as a result - thus the name. Shrove Tuesday concluded the prelenten carnival in many countries. (Mardi Gras is one.) These cream-filled buns are a Swedish delicacy for this day, but the buns deserve to be more widely enjoyed. My family raves over them.
DIRECTIONS
1. Combine 2 cups flour, sugar, salt, yeast, and cardamom in a mixing bowl.
2. Heat milk and butter to hot (120-130 degrees). Add milk mixture to dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
3. Add egg and enough remaining flour to make a soft dough.
4. Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth - about 10 minutes.
5. Punch down dough. Shape dough into 12-inch rope and cut into 1-inch pieces. Shape these into smooth round buns.
6. Place on greased baking sheet. Let rise until double - about 30 minutes.
7. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven 10-15 minutes or until done. Cool on wire rack.
8. When cool, slice top off each bun and scoop out center with a fork, leaving a shell 1/4- to 1/2-inch thick. Set crumbs aside for filling.
9. Make filling: Mix reserved crumbs, chopped nuts, confectioners' sugar, light cream, and vanilla or walnut extract.
10. Spoon filling into buns. Add a heaping spoonful of whipped cream to each. Put tops back on and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Recipe Source: Festive Bread Book, The by Kathy Cutler, Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1982Wed30 AprilToday is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by…
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