Grandma Tilly's Kuchen

Name: Grandma Tilly's Kuchen
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: 14 kuchen, 56 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast; 1/2 cup warm water; 2 tablespoons sugar; 4 eggs, beaten; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 cup warm water; 1 cup warm milk; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup melted butter; 6 1/2-7 cups flour; cinnamon (for sprinkling); sugar (for sprinkling); 4 eggs, beaten; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 pinch salt; 1/4 cup flour; 1 pint sweet cream; 4 cups apple pie filling, crushed; 2 cups sour cream; 2 cups brown sugar; 1 pinch salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 4 eggs, beaten

Submitted by sjkotylak

"This makes a big batch, but my Grammie would make half with the apple topping, half with the custard. It was totally a breakfast of choice when have sleepovers at Grandma and Grandpa's house! Freezes well, and totally makes me feel 7 again... My timing for the baking of the kuchen may not be accurate - my grandparents had a very old oven that they baked them in..."

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Ready In:: 3hrs 15mins
Ingredients:: 24
Yields:: 14 kuchen
Serves:: 56

ingredients

KUCHEN
1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast
¹⁄₂ cup warm water
2 tablespoons sugar
4 eggs, beaten
³⁄₄ cup sugar
1 cup warm water
1 cup warm milk
1 teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ cup melted butter
6 ¹⁄₂ - 7 cups flour
cinnamon (for sprinkling)
sugar (for sprinkling)
CUSTARD TOPPING
4 eggs, beaten
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch salt
¹⁄₄ cup flour
1 pint sweet cream
APPLE TOPPING
4 cups apple pie filling, crushed
2 cups sour cream
2 cups brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs, beaten

directions

KUCHEN: Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water and 2 tbsp sugar. Beat eggs 6 to 8 minutes.
Add sugar and beat again. Add yeast. Mix salt with milk and water. Add half of the flour and mix well with big spoon. Add melted butter and mix well. Then add the rest of the flour to make a soft dough.
Let rise 1 1/2 hours. Punch down. Let rise 1 hour.
Roll out dough quite thin, and divide between 14 small tin pie plates.
After topping is on the kuchen, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until done.
CUSTARD: Beat eggs, add remaining ingredients and mix well. Apple slices or crushed apples can be put on top of custard if you like.
APPLE: Beat eggs, add remaining ingredients and mix well and pour in the middle of the kuchen.

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This was really good, everyone loved them. Made the custard filling, with the cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top. Followed recipes exactly, but didn't have small pie tins - used muffin tins and used walnut sized pieces of dough. Baked for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Will make again. Thank You. Made for ZWT6 No-Nonsense Nibblers.

MomLuvs6

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sjkotylak

Canada

Picture taken just for Zaar - mmmm milkshake... I'm a brand new single mommy to my tiny perfect human, so thank you to everyone who takes the time to make and review my recipes - I try to send a zmail to each of you, but baby girl has a different idea. I'm a good ol' prairie girl from Canada with one side of the family being Ukrainian/Slovakian and the other side is German/Russian. In other words, when we cook we take carbs, cover them in more carbs, fry'em and serve it smothered in onions and cream.  No pro chefs in my family, just grandmas and aunts and cousins and a mom that had me pinching perogies and stuffing strudel before I could form a complete sentence. The most dreaded / laughed at phrase I say is, So last night, I invented this thing for supper... - I would probably publish more recipes if I actually remembered everything I put in or had an idea of how much I added!!

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