The Sheriff wife's masterpiece - Főispánné remeke

I am still digitizing my grandma's recipes. This one I think is originally from a baking powder cookbook, Vancza, because I found similar ones on the web.

Most of them have flattened and cut stripes, I like to roll them out, that's what I did as a kid, and is just what I prefer now, too..

It is a sweet, soft, meringue top cake, with some preferably sharper jam, traditionally apricot, but sour cherry, lingonberry works very well, too.

Ingredients

500 g flour

200 g lard, or 230 gr butter (2 sticks)

150  g sugar

pinch salt

1 tsp baking powder

dash of vanilla

3 eggs, separated, will use the 3 egg yolk, room temperature

1/2 small preserve, jam

1 lemon zest and juice

about 4 tbsp of sour cream

Meringue

150 g powder sugar 

the 3 egg whites

Extra butter and four for the tray

 

Crumble the flour, lard or butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, pinch salt, baking powder, add the 3 egg yolks, mix. If necessary,  start adding the sour cream spoon by spoon, until all flour clings together.

Place the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes, it will be easier to work with.

Preheat  the oven to 380 F, 190  C. Grease well a 22 x 35 cm, or 9" x 13" with butter, and sprinkle lightly and evenly with flour.

Remove from fridge, put 1/4 of the dough for the top, and roll the remaining dough between two parchment paper sheets into a square to fit the pan.

Place the dough in the pan.

Spread the jam on top.

Whisk the 3 egg white with the powder sugar until stiff peaks form. Make sure there is no egg yolk in the egg whites, and both the bowl and the whisk should be dry and clean. The meringue is quite a peculiar thing, any impurity can prevent you from getting the right consistency.

Pipe or spread the meringue on top of the jam, and last but not least either roll out the leftover dough and place the stripes diagonally in both directions on the egg whites, or roll the dough into stripes, and do the same.

I added some fruits for fun, but it might make the egg white too wet, so just leave it out for the first time.

Bake them for about 40 minutes on the lower shelf of the oven, until the top starts to brown.

 

Let is cool completely, cut into squares, and enjoy!

Bon appétit!