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SWABIAN ONION PIE (SCHWAEBISCHER ZWIEBELKUCHEN)
from Wolfgang W. Reichert, "Culinary Excursions through Germany". Sigloch
Edition. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3 8003 03043.
For the yeast dough (pie crust):
4 cups flour
2 eggs
3 1/2 oz (7 TS) butter
1 pinch salt
5 oz milk
1 oz compressed yeast or 2 TS dry active yeast
For the filling:
4 lbs onions, thinly sliced
3 oz bacon, diced
1 1/2 cups sour cream
4 eggs
5 TS flour
1 pinch each of caraway seeds and salt
First mix yeast with 2 TS milk and 1 ts sugar. Allow to rest for 10
min. before making dough.
Combine ingredients for the dough and allow to rise in warm place for 30
minutes. For filling, slice onions thinly, saute with margarine or butter
without browning them. Fry bacon quickly and mix with sour cream, eggs,
flour, caraway seeds and salt and combine with onions. Roll out dough and
place in large greased springform. Spread topping evenly on dough and bake
in preheated 430 F (220 C) oven for approx. 1 hour till golden brown. Serve
warm.
Alsatian Onion Pie: (serves 6)
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2 Tbsp. oil
3 large onions, finely diced
1 cup milk
1/3 cup firm tofu, crushed by hand
1 1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
2 Tbsp. unbleached flour
1 Tbsp. couscous
1 whole wheat pie shell in a 10-inch tart pan
Saute onions in oil until translucent and mostly soft. Blend the milk,
tofu, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and flour until smooth. Then combine the
onions, the milk mixture and the couscous. Pour into the prepared pie
shell. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F for abour 30 minutes.