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wobbegong
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10 Jul 2006, 6:16 am

Hi The Danish

a danish pastry is a berliner?

I thought Adelaide, South Australia and adjacent rural towns with German heritage were the only places that had those. I'm hungry now.

Our danish involves a geometic shape of flakey pastry a bit like croissant pastry, with some bit of fruit, and maybe patisserie custard, if they know what they're doing, or ordinary custard if they don't, and a lot of glaze and decorative icing. A berliner however is like a jam donut. no hole in the centre, and the yeast dough gets deep fried at some point, and then jam stuffed in the middle, and a generous capping of hard smooth not sticky icing over the top. There's a variation called a kitchener bun, suspect it had a german name before we went to war with the germans (the first time), that involves the deep fried donut bun (no hole), rolled in sugar, split in the middle and finished with jam and fresh whipped cream.

Things like this, we were only allowed one choice on Friday in my family. Ie definitely the food of moderation.