A dish from the poor kitchen with a noble name: here is the Kaiserschmarrn, the sweet of the emperor born by mistake
Its original name could be difficult to pronounce: it's called Kaiserschmarrn, but more nicely you can call it sweet Emperor. Despite the name, it is not a royal dish or difficult to prepare, indeed. It is a simple dessert, typical of the Austrian cuisine is Tyrolean, to eat for breakfast but also for a snack or as a dessert.
Literally translates to sweet omelette of the Emperor: indeed, it is a sort of sweet scrambled eggs, as if they were pancakes made into small pieces. Traditionally, it is used with the cranberry jam or currant (but we already know that you will try to sprinkle them with chocolate cream). All it takes is a small piece to become seriously dependent, but before understanding how it is prepared, we find out how it was born.
The legend of the Kaiserschmarren, a cake born by mistake
The true story of this cake is not certain, but it is nice to believe one of the legends more widespread on its creation. We are in the period between the end of 1800 and the beginning of 1900. The emperor Francesco Giuseppe of Austria he had ordered a crêpe from his cook, but the latter, busy preparing dinner for the royal family, forgot the crack on the fire and let it scorch. As if that were not enough, in the hurry to remedy the mistake, he tried to turn it over and broke it. The poor cook had to invent a solution: he broke it completely, covered the burns with sugar and accompanied it with jam. Miraculously the Emperor will go mad, so much that he became his favorite dessert.
The Kaiserschmarren recipe, the Emperor's sweet
There is an infinite number of recipes to prepare the Emperor's omelette, so much so that it is often prepared by eye, without weighing the ingredients.
We offer you a greedy version here. Among the ingredients found the rum, which is necessary to rehydrate the raisins: it is optional, but it will give an even more decisive taste. Finally, if you don't have the pod of vanilla, also use a vanilla sugar.
Ingredients
200 g Milk
150 g flour
50 g Sugar
40 g Raisins
4 eggs
1 Vanilla pod
Butter
Rum
Icing sugar
salt
Method
First, soak the raisins in a little rum for about 10-15 minutes. Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Season the egg yolks with the vanilla seeds and beat with the whisk, adding the flour a little at a time and then the milk, until you obtain a homogeneous and frothy mixture.
Separately, beat the egg whites with the sugar and a pinch of salt. At this point add the well-squeezed raisins to the mixture of the yolks and then the whipped egg white, stirring gently from bottom to top.
For cooking, melt a knob of butter in a pan and fill it with a ladle of the mixture. Cook on a gentle heat for about 10 minutes, until it is golden brown, then divide it into 4 pieces, turn them over and cook the other side for about 5 minutes. Chop each clove to get smaller pieces.
Serve the kaiserschmarrns by sprinkling them with icing sugar and accompanying them with jams or creams, depending on your preference.
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