Zwetschgenkuchen

Plum cake, plum cake and plum cake is a cake made ​​of yeast dough or pastry that is occupied spread on a baking sheet and thin with halved and pitted plums ( a subspecies of the plum).

Plum cake is known as a summer cake and is usually referred to in the various regions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with proper names.

In Hesse, Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland, he is known as Quetschekuche, in Bavaria, parts of Baden -Württemberg as a plum, in Austria as Zwetschkenfleck or Zwetschkendatschi, in the Rhineland and the Eifel he is known under the name Prummetaat or Prommetaat. " Dachi " probably derives from the Upper and Middle German word " Dechen " or " dachas ", which you can " push " as " paw " translate ( the plums are pressed into the dough ). In its original version of the plum cake is served without sprinkles.

The Augsburg claim to having invented the plum cake. He is regarded as a culinary specialty of the city and is baked according to original recipe from pastry. Because of him, the city is jokingly called Datschiburg. It is also said the same plum in shape and appearance to the Augsburg city arms, the Zirbelnuss.

In the Pfalz and Rheinhessen you eat plum cake with potato soup or vegetable soup as a main dish for lunch ( Grumbeersupp with Quetschekuche ). In Saarland, however, bean soup with plum cake is a popular combination ( Bibbelschesbohnesupp un Quetschekuche ).