Buchteln

Buchteln, also: Wuchteln, oven pasta or Rohrnudeln in Bavaria and the Palatinate, ( in Czech Buchty, Slovak or Hungarian Buchty Bukta ) are sweet yeast dumplings filled or unfilled, or bags that are baked in the oven. Buchteln are a typical dish from the Czech cuisine, which has found its way into the Saxon, Swabian, Bavarian and Austrian. In the Austrian and Bohemian variant Buchteln are often filled with plum jam, poppy seeds, cottage cheese or apricot jam in Bavaria often with raisins, plum jam or fresh whole plums. Five piece to a circle with a ball in the middle are assembled before baking as a Viennese specialty. After baking they are dusted with powdered sugar ( icing sugar) and eaten warm.

As ducats Buchteln refers to a modification of the Buchteln their size and charge concerning: Here, the buns are baked in the finished state about eigroß unfilled.

Buchteln are often eaten with warm custard. In some regions, however, they are also prepared without filling and eaten with sauerkraut.

Vienna Well known are the dumplings in the café Hawes, wife Hawes has baked until her death in 2005, even for the guests who have so found in Georg Danzer song Jö looking entrance. Also known are the dumplings offered at the station Baumgartner snow mountain lift: While earlier the train had stay to supply the engine with water, he holds today, in times of electrification of the rail, still - so that passengers can buy Buchteln. An originality is also the Buchtelbar in Little cell (Eastern Styria), which is known for its giant Buchteln since 1968.

Same name, the Upper Silesian variant, like the dumpling made ​​from the same dough, but is cooked on a cloth clamped in the vapor space of the cooking pot. The Silesian Buchtel is traditionally eaten with blueberry or blackberry compote.

During the Biedermeier were at the Vienna Hermannskogel to Agnestag on January 21, and baked so-called Ternobuchteln at Locust decapitation on August 29 by the host M. Nebenhay. These dumplings were held with the usual plethora of numbers - slips for a lottery ( Terno ) filled and sold accordingly.

Viennese vernacular

The term has other meanings in Wuchtel Wiener -speaking world. When reference is made in Vienna by a Wuchtel, we mean either a football or a very funny remark.