German Furtens

[seemore]

My grandmother used to make these for New Years.
I got the Mrs to try her hand at them today.
Here is the pan:

Here are the furtens, cooked and out of the pan:

Here is how you eat them - dipped in sugar:

seemore

[deb415611]

Details!  what is inside them?

They look awesome.

[Quarlow]

MMM those look delicious.

[HawkeyeSmokes]

I would agree, those look great Seemore!

[Quarlow]

They look like they have cinnamon in them.

[ArnieM]

OK, so what's in there?  Us Germans like our dough and sugar and, well, other stuff.  So c'mon, fess up.

[pensrock]

Looks fantastic.  :)

[seemore]

Scott said it was a family secret, but I pummeled him into submission.  ;)
Here is the recipe:

Yeast mixture:
2 t flour
2 t sugar
2 pkg dry yeast
1 1/2 C warm water
Put this mixture in a large bowl, and set aside

Combine these ingredients in a bowl, then add to the yeast mixture:
2 C warm milk
4 egg yokes, beaten - save those egg whites & beat them until they are stiff
1 t vanilla
1 T sugar
1 T butter - no instructions on this, so I melted it
1 t salt

Finally, add:
3 heaping C flour
1 C raisins
Beat this well, then fold in the egg whites

Cover this, and let it raise for about one hour.

I don't know where you can find furten pans.  This was Scott's grandmother's, and it is at least 70 years old.  I am sure they are still out there somewhere...........

[KevinG]

Shouldn't there be some cooking after the rise?

[seemore]

My bad, Kevin, my bad....... :-[
And it's not even New Year's Eve!!!   
I put the pan on the stove and put about 1/2 teaspoon of Crisco shortening in each cup.
I let that get hot, and then I filled each cup with the batter.
I let them cook, checking them getting a fork behind the batter and tipping them over in the cup. 
The batter was a lot like pancake batter, and it produced lots of small bubbles as it was cooking.
I cut the recipe in half, as there was only Scott and I here, and they turned out pretty good!
Mrs

[KevinG]

No problem Mrs, idle curiosity since I probably wouldn't be able to get one of those pan thingies.
That's interesting - I would have thought is was more like bread or buns and you stick that thing in the oven.

[NePaSmoKer]

MMMMMMM

Seemore them look good  ;D  and ya know i think we have one of them pans, we got it at an estate sale in Amish town

[seemore]

Ya know, Nepas, I forgot about the Amish communities....I bet you would find furten pans there!

[Tenpoint5]

Scott was supposed to send me some of them when he was telling me about them. You know for proper trial and evaluation.

[3rensho]

Those are delicious.  In northern Germany they go by the less PC name of Nonnenfurz (Nun's fart)