Onion & Bacon Pie

Scriveyn · 09-30-2012, 05:15 AM

Not blogging, but took a couple of pictures yesterday lunchtime and thought I'd share with the bacon loving community

It's the time of year when we traditionally eat Zwiebelkuchen (literally "onion cake"), preferably with a glass or two of Federweisser (grape juice that has just started fermenting).

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Alternatively white wine will do.

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In short: make some yeast dough from approx. 300g flour. While it rises fry some 50-100g chopped bacon set it aside. Sweat/sauté 500-1000g of chopped & salted onions and let them cool. Mix onions with fried bacon, pepper, 2-4 eggs & 200-300ml cream. Spread the dough into a springform pan & add onion mix, sprinkle with more bacon and optionally caraway seeds. Bake at approx. 180°C for about 30 minutes.

richlevy · 09-30-2012, 05:46 AM

In other words, quiche.

footfootfoot · 09-30-2012, 09:53 AM

Yes, suspiciously like "egg pie" as the native Vermonters call it.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-30-2012, 10:27 AM

That piece of Onion & Bacon Pie...

IS TOO DAMN SMALL.

Scriveyn · 09-30-2012, 12:05 PM

you don't have to stop at one - I didn't

glatt · 09-30-2012, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scriveyn

It's the time of year when we traditionally eat Zwiebelkuchen

I love Zwiebelkuchen. Haven't had it in years. When we would have it, it was usually at a wine festival, and it came in huge sheets, without the crust around the edge, and you would get a rectangular slice. A lot like the rectangular slices that I got as a kid in school lunch.

Yours looks delicious.

orthodoc · 09-30-2012, 02:28 PM

Agree. That looks fantastic. Thanks for providing the recipe!

Scriveyn · 09-30-2012, 02:50 PM

Thanks!

glatt, whereabouts have you been eating it? Zwiebelkuchen is the one pie I haven't yet seen in rectangles. Bakeries & street fests here in the southwest of Germany sell slices similar to the one in the image - but selfmade tastes better

glatt · 09-30-2012, 08:40 PM

well, it's been a while, but it was in SW Germany. Freiburg area.

09-30-2012, 05:15 AM	#1
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	Onion & Bacon Pie Not blogging, but took a couple of pictures yesterday lunchtime and thought I'd share with the bacon loving community It's the time of year when we traditionally eat Zwiebelkuchen (literally "onion cake"), preferably with a glass or two of Federweisser (grape juice that has just started fermenting). Alternatively white wine will do. In short: make some yeast dough from approx. 300g flour. While it rises fry some 50-100g chopped bacon set it aside. Sweat/sauté 500-1000g of chopped & salted onions and let them cool. Mix onions with fried bacon, pepper, 2-4 eggs & 200-300ml cream. Spread the dough into a springform pan & add onion mix, sprinkle with more bacon and optionally caraway seeds. Bake at approx. 180°C for about 30 minutes.

09-30-2012, 05:46 AM	#2
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	In other words, quiche. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

09-30-2012, 09:53 AM	#3
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Yes, suspiciously like "egg pie" as the native Vermonters call it. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-30-2012, 10:27 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That piece of Onion & Bacon Pie... IS TOO DAMN SMALL. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-30-2012, 02:28 PM	#7
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Agree. That looks fantastic. Thanks for providing the recipe! __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

09-30-2012, 12:05 PM	#5
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	you don't have to stop at one - I didn't

09-30-2012, 02:50 PM	#8
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	Thanks! glatt, whereabouts have you been eating it? Zwiebelkuchen is the one pie I haven't yet seen in rectangles. Bakeries & street fests here in the southwest of Germany sell slices similar to the one in the image - but selfmade tastes better

09-30-2012, 08:40 PM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	well, it's been a while, but it was in SW Germany. Freiburg area.

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