And let's eat some "mice" in honor of the weekend? This is exactly what this delicacy is called in the bourgeois lands - "quarkmäusle".
In fact, these are donuts, cottage cheese donuts, and not a single mouse will suffer during their preparation (unless it chokes with saliva). They are tender, soft, fragrant... Mmmm, delicious.
I know, I know, there are cottage cheese donuts in almost every kitchen and you don't need to go to bourgeois, but you must admit that curd donuts are one thing, and curd mice are quite another, especially for kids?
So we take:
- A pound of low-fat cottage cheese
- 400 grams of flour
- 250 grams of sugar
- 4 eggs
- a level teaspoon of salt
- Baking powder bag
- A couple of bags of vanilla sugar (and if you have natural vanilla, then this is generally super)
- Zest from one lemon
- Deep-frying oil
- Well, and powdered sugar for sprinkling. It can be mixed with cinnamon or vanilla, whichever you prefer. There is no powdered sugar or too lazy to make it - you can sprinkle it with sugar (I sprinkled it like that, and nothing)
How we cook:
Beat eggs with sugar until a strong foam forms. We wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve or punch it with a blender and send it to the eggs. Mix everything well.
We send flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla and zest to the curd. And we carefully knead for a long, long time, so that we get a gentle homogeneous mass.
We heat up a deep fryer with oil - well, or just oil in a frying pan (the layer should be such that the "mouse" can plunge into it), and form the mice. If you do this with two spoons, you get a plump carcass with uneven protrusions "paws". This is probably why donuts were called mice.
For neat people - donuts can be simply rolled with wet hands and that's it.
As the mice turn red, we take them out with a slotted spoon, let them swell on the wire rack and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Bon Appetit!