Soviet potato pie

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Pie "Potato" is a sweet familiar to many from childhood. Previously, in every cafe you could buy this delicacy, but the taste of the cake was different everywhere. This is because the ingredients varied. Some confectioners used a biscuit, the second - crackers, and still others - ready-made cookies. They also used a different method of sprinkling: ground waffles, crackers or cocoa. But in any recipe, each “potato” contained cocoa, condensed milk (or regular), sugar and butter.

The history of the cake is connected with the manifestation of human wit in extreme conditions. Once in Finland, famous, honored guests came to the poet Runeberg. But in the poor family of the poet, there was nothing to treat the guests with. There were only old cookies and some booze in the house. In those days, cookies were bought in large bags, not packs, so only a few crumbs and broken cookies remained at the bottom of the bag. Of course, this cannot be served at the table. Here Mrs. Runeberg showed culinary ingenuity. And while her husband entertained his friends, Mrs. Runeberg ground the biscuits with sour cream and jam and added a little liqueur. From the mass that turned out, she made cakes that looked like potatoes and decorated them with berries fromjam. Then she laid out the finished cakes on a dish and presented them to the guests. Everyone who tried this potato cake asked the hostess for a recipe. Over time, it spread throughout the country. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the already improved cake became popular in the Soviet Union.

How to make Potato Cake

To make the Potato cake, you need to take:

- vanilla crackers (or biscuit, or soft cookies) - 500 grams;

- condensed milk - 400 milliliters;

- cocoa - 50 grams (two full tablespoons);

- butter - 200 grams;

- dark chocolate (with more than 70% cocoa) - 100 grams;

- cognac (or liquor) - 30 milliliters;

- candied citrus fruits (for decoration) - 20 grams.

First, grind crackers (biscuit) into crumbs using a blender or meat grinder. If you take cookies, you can do it with your hands. After grinding, there should not be large pieces, and all the crumbs should be the same size. Then you need to shift the condensed milk with cocoa powder. This must be done carefully so that there are no lumps. Then finely chopped butter must be added to the mass and put everything in a water bath or fire until the butter has melted. Then it is necessary to melt the chocolate broken into pieces in a bowl in a water / steam bath. Half of it should be added to the cocoa cream, condensed milk and butter, and mix thoroughly. Then into chocolatethe mass must be poured in for the aroma of alcohol (liquor, cognac) and mixed again. The cream must be well whipped with crumbs. If the mass came out a little dry, but you can add a little milk.

The resulting chocolate cream must be mixed with crumbs. If you get a dry mass, you can add milk. Now from the mass form small balls in the form of potatoes. You can make a sausage for this and divide it into equal parts, and then roll the balls. Then the finished cakes can be decorated as desired, for example, with candied fruits and chocolate. To do this, dip the cakes into the remaining melted chocolate, and put thinly sliced \u200b\u200bcandied fruit on top. You can decorate cakes in a different way, it all depends on your imagination. Here is the finished Potato. Cake is best eaten the next day. This is the only way to appreciate its real taste, because by that time it will already be saturated with all the ingredients.