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Bee Sting is a traditional cake made ​​of yeast dough with a coating of a fat-sugar almond mass, caramelized during baking. It is often filled with a vanilla cream or cream, but also fat cream. A variant is the bee sting in cake form. Bee sting is considered a classic of German cuisine.

According to the Guidelines for pastry in the German Food Code of the proportion of the deposit must be at least 20 % weight of the dough; 30 % of the deposit must consist of oilseeds. For almond bee sting only almonds may be used. The processing of other oil seeds except walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds must be declared.

Production

Basis is a sweet yeast dough that is rolled out on a finger- thick sheet. Then a mass of boiled sugar or honey, grease and oil seeds is applied before baking. The mass is relatively hot applied, as it is otherwise not spreadable. The industry offers prefabricated granules and masses that are mixed only with almonds and are easy to handle. After baking and cooling, the pastries will split horizontally. Is filled with bee sting cream, butter cream, cold cream or custard. Widely used is a custard, the egg white is under drawn immediately after cooking. Since the mass is very loose, a form to fill the soil is necessary. Therefore, the ceiling is divided before applying because they do not otherwise be cut. Since the filling is not completely heated through, bee sting is considered to be susceptible to germs and is therefore used in food hygiene experiments as sample material.

Origin of the name

The origin of the name " bee sting " is unclear. The baker boy legend, planned in 1474, the people of Linz am Rhein an attack on their neighboring city of Andernach, as the emperor of Linz deprived of the Rhine inches and had awarded the Gentiles Achern. In the morning, however, said two Andernacher baker apprentices walked the city walls and nibbled from the beehives hanging there. When they saw the attackers, they threw the nests for them, so that the Linzer - had to flee - stung by the bees. To celebrate a special cake was baked - the bee sting.

Others

A decision of the Federal Labor Court from 1984 was known as bee sting case.

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