The cream is a cake that every Pole should know And try to try at least once in your life. A legend with the participation of John Paul II has been arranged around this delicious dessert. But was it actually as she says?
In Poland, creams served in confectioneries are often provided with the adjective “papal”. It will be particularly noticeable when we go on a trip to Wadowice. On almost every sign of the confectionery We will find the inscription “Papal creams”. But what does that really mean? The term is associated with a story.
In 1999, John Paul II made a pilgrimage to Poland, and one of the points were the family Wadowice of the Saint. For this reason, a meeting with the city’s inhabitants and youth was organized. During it The Pope admitted that after graduating with his friends he went to the confectionery around the corner for cream.
Because of this memory it has grown around the cream Legend that John Paul II would love sweetsin particular cream. The dessert was “baptized with the” Papal “adjective”, which were to indicate that it was the one that the great Pole chose. Instead, it turns out that The truth is slightly different.
John Paul II in an interview with French journalists who prepared a document regarding the kitchen of the popes, admitted that everything was exaggerated. According to him, lovewhich he would have for cream, has been exaggerated by recipients, in particular media and confectioners. Much more from cream He preferred Ruthenian dumplings.
Despite this fact, the creams are still described as papal and it will probably stay that way.
It is said that you have to go to Wadowice for real papal creams. However, I know that You will make the best cream at home with this recipe. They always come out delicious. The dough is delicate and pleasantly fragile. The cream is extremely creamy, pleasantly butterbut not too fat. It is perfect. When I do it It disappears to the last crumb.
Cake ingredients:
- 200 ml of cold water,
- 1 tablespoon of salt,
- 500 g of butter with room temperature,
- 150 g of krupczatka flour,
- 250 g of cake flour.
Cream ingredients:
- 3 egg yolks,
- 1 l of milk,
- 100 g of soft butter,
- 70 g cukru,
- 1 vanilla extract,
- 70 g of wheat flour,
- 50 ml of rum,
- Powder sugar for sprinkling.
Start by preparing the dough. Mix the salt with water to completely combine the ingredients. In a saucepan Melt about 75 g of butter And leave them to cool gently. In a bowl Mix both flour, salt water and melted butter. Knead the dough thoroughly.
Form a ball from the made dough, wrap it in cling film and Put in the fridge for about 2 hours. Grate the remaining butter until smooth. Then put them between two food films, Roll out to a thickness of approx. 2 cm and Place the butter of butter in the fridge.
Pull the cooled dough out of the fridge and roll out for a rectangular lobe, approx. 2 cm. Pour it with a small amount of flour. Place chilled butter on the dough So that it is more or less in the middle.
Cake corners stick together to form an envelope. Roll out everything again to a rectangle and Fold in three parts. Put the ready dough in refrigerators for the next 2 hours. All this process repeat at least 5-6 times (Roll out the dough each time, fold into three parts and cool for 2 hours).
Then go to baking. Divide the cooled dough into 2 parts, one of them Roll out to a thickness of approx. 5 mm. Place it in the form 22×28 cm. Bake in the oven preheated to 200 degrees Celsius for 13 minutes. Perform exactly the same process with the second part of the dough. Leave both countertops to cool. Leave one of them in a baking tray.
Prepare the cream during this time. Mix the flour and yolks in the middle of a glass of milk. Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan, add sugar, butter, vanilla extract and rum. Heat the whole on low heat, stirring occasionally. When the mixture heats up Pour the milk into it with flour and yolks. Boil, stirring constantly. The pudding cream should be very thick.
Still Pour the hot pudding cream onto a piece of dough in a baking tray. Cover it with a second piece of dough and get up to the fridge for a few hours. Before serving, cut the papal cream into squares and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Source: Smher.pl, Terazpoczy.pl
