Baked Spinach With Cheese - Uberbackener Spinat Mit Kase

1 Servings

1 lb fresh spinach,washed and

1    dried

1/4 lb butter

1 lg onion,diced

2    cloves garlic,minced

1/2 t  salt

1/2 lb emmenthaler cheese,grated

1 t  paprika

1/8 t  nutmeg

1/4 t  pepper

Cut spinach into strips. In a large Dutch oven heat butter until bubbly. Add onion and garlic. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add the spinach. Sprinkle with salt. Cover and steam for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Grease an ovenproof casserole. Sprinkle half the cheese over the bottom of the casserole. Add the spinach. Sprinkle with paprika, nutmeg and pepper. Top with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degF about 20 minutes or until cheese bubbles. Makes 4 servings.

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German Dessert Recipes

Austrian Apricot Balls (Marillenknoedel)


14 Servings

250 g  white cheese (austrian topfen, german: quark)

30 g  butter

2    egg yolks

1 pn salt

80 g  flour

80 g  butter

100 g  breadcrumbs

2 T  sugar

1/4 t  cinnamon

14    apricots

14    pieces of sugar

1    powdered sugar

Mix white cheese, butter (soft, not directly from the refrigerator), egg yolks and salt. Add the flour and make a soft mass. Form a roll with a dia- meter of about 5 cm. Cut slices of about 1 cm, press flat on your hand. Put an apricot (remove the kernel and put in a piece of sugar) on top of it and form a ball. Put into a pot of simmering, slightly salted water. Let simmer for about 10 minutes. Put breadcrumbs, sugar and cinnamon into a pan where you melted the butter and roast it until it takes a golden colour (you can also smell, when it is finished, but be careful it soon may be too late).

Roll the balls in the roasted breadcrumbs, put powdered sugar above and eat very hot.

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