Aebleskiver

Recipe by: Happy Hat Uploaded by Drimble Wedge

As some of you know, I recently got myself an old Æbleskive iron. Cast iron pan, originating with wifes great grand mother - so it is from pre 1900 (see if your Jamie Oliver tefal piece of crap will last more than 100 years - I fucking dare you!).

It's made to use on a wood stove, or directly on fire. The ring at the top is both for handling and for hanging apparently..

All of this might be bullshit, but since it is my wife's grandmother (96 - passed away a week ago) who regaled us with tales of there being æbleskiver after churning, but mostly during winter, and this being the iron used for it.

You might have noticed I keep referring to it as an iron, and not a pan, that is because for some reason these babies are called that in Danish.

The bottom of the iron shows that it was not meant for a flat surface, no more than three of the cups touches at any one point in time either - luckily the power of science and cast iron ensures that I get an even heat distribution.

Let's make æbleskiver

Æbleskiver is already plural, do not add an s on the end of that unless you want to sound ignorant..

For this you need:

180 grams of butter
500g AP flour
500g buttermilk
2 tablespoons sugar
6 eggs
50 grams of yeast (or the equivalent in dry yeast)
grated lemon
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 apple
butter for baking them in
jam and lemon curd for serving (well - I wanted to use lemon curd, traditionally it's just jam)

Melt the butter in a small saucepan, keep a good eye on it, you don't want it to brown.

Crack the eggs, and remove all pieces of shell subsequently.

Take the sugar, and add the yeast, mash it up a little.

Then wash hands, because you're kinda anal about having non-sticky fingers.. Wash them thoroughly, and test out different functions of the faucet. But don't dry them, why should you dry them?

Measure out the buttermilk, and add it to the butter, test to see if it is lukewarm (I tested first).

And then taste to see what it tastes like, explain that it is a good thing, and that butter is good for you - otherwise you won't get fat and healthy.