GTOD Vigil Recipe - Pressmetzen zu Ostern
Pressmetzen Zu Ostern, Precedella, Torten von Epffel and Sugared Mint Leaves I'd like to send thanks to Volker Bach for the inspiration for the festive centerpiece of the Vigil Feast. Shortly after I was asked to do the Vigil daybard, he shared a memory for an Easter Feast from 2021 . I knew that I needed to make this pastry and the Dockenmilch. If you have not visited culina vetus you are doing yourself a disservice. The breadth of the material found there is staggering. The cookbook of Balthasar Staindl from Dillingen in 1544 entitled “How to bake the Pressmetzen at Easter”. Pressmetzen zu Ostern (from Balthasar Staindl) ccxxii Make a good gentle egg cheese (like a custard) and do not burn it. Put it on a draining board so that it sinks down (drains) well, then take the egg cheese and stir it apart with a spoon, add more eggs, a little sweet cream, also grate manchet bread into it, yellow it (with saffron), season it, add sufficient raisins. Then take manchet bread (semme
