---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
 
      Title: BIENENSTICH
 Categories: German, Ethnic, Desserts
      Yield: 12 servings
 
           PASTRY
  3 1/2 oz (100g) cottage cheese, well
           Pressed out
      4 tb Milk
      4 tb Oil
      2 tb Heaping of sugar
           Pinch salt
      7 oz (200g) flour
      4 ts Baking powder
           TOPPING:
  1 3/4 oz To 2 1/2 (50-75g)butter
  3 1/2 oz (100g) sugar
           Packet vanillin sugar
      1 tb Milk
  3 1/2 oz (100g) almonds (blanched and
           Thinly sliced)
 
  For the Pastry:  rub the cottage cheese, if desired,
  through a fine sieve and mix with the milk, oil, sugar
  and salt.  Mix and sieve together the flour and the
  baking powder and add to the mixed ingredients, a
  little at a time until slightly more than half has
  been used. Knead in the rest of the flour.  Grease a
  round cake tin with a removable rim, 10 in. (26cm) in
  diameter and roll out the pastry to fit the base.
  
  For the Topping: melt together the butter, sugar and
  vanillin sugar and add the milk; stir in the almonds
  and set aside to cool. If it should be too firm when
  cold, add a little milk. Spread evenly over the pastry.
  
  OVEN: moderately hot Baking time: about 20 minutes
  
  Alternatively the cake may be filled with buttercream,
  made from 1/2 packet Oetker Pudding Powder, Vanilla
  Flavour, 2 well heaped tbs. sugar, 1/2 pint cold milk
  and 3 1/2 oz. (100g) butter.  When the cake is quite
  cold, cut it horizontally into two halves, spread the
  filling on the bottom half and lay the other on top.
 
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