Onion cake

AUTHOR
Eunice Scott
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 200 ml Milk
  • 1 cube (42 g) Yeast
  • 400 g Flour
  • 100 g Butter or margarine
  • 1 TEASPOON Salt
  • 1 kg Onions
  • 200 g streaky smoked bacon
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Butter or margarine
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Caraway seeds
  • 250 g ripened cream
  • 200 g grated Emmental cheese
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 Egg Yolk
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

  1. 1

    Warm the milk lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in it. Put the flour in a bowl. Press a depression in the middle. Add the milk-yeast mixture, mix with some flour and let it rise covered for 15 minutes.

  2. 2

    Meanwhile melt the fat. Add fat and salt to the flour. Knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer to a smooth dough, cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 30 minutes. Peel onions and cut into rings.

  3. 3

    Dice the bacon and leave it out in a pan. Add fat and fry the onions in it. Season with salt, pepper and caraway seeds. Knead the yeast dough again, roll out on a greased baking tray and let it rise for 15 minutes.

  4. 4

    Spread the onion-bacon mixture on the dough. Stir sour cream, cheese, eggs and egg yolk until smooth. Pour over the onions and bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ gas mark 3) for 35 to 40 minutes.