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  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Here’s a picture, stolen from some cooking site (because it looks better than mine):

    It’s a common dish here in Paraná, known locally as “cuque de farofa e banana”; basically Streuselkuchen plus sliced bananas. I’ll share the recipe I followed, it works fine, it’s just that I didn’t give the yeast enough hours to act:

    Recipe

    For the crumbles:

    • 180g flour
    • 200g sugar (add more if you like it sweeter)
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 2 tablespoons plus more of some solid fat (lard, butter, margarine, they all work fine)

    Mix all ingredients by hand, adding more fat as needed; you know you got enough fat there when the crumbles barely hold themselves together, once you press them with your hand.

    Batter:

    • 1 tablespoon dry biological yeast
    • 250ml lukewarm milk; make sure it isn’t too hot, otherwise it’ll kill the yeast
    • 75g sugar
    • 300g flour
    • 2 tablespoons fat
    • zest of a lime, half lemon, or a rangpur
    • two eggs
    • some vanilla extract
    • a pinch of salt
    • three bananas, peeled, sliced
    1. Mix the yeast, the milk, and one of the tablespoons of sugar. Let it bloom for half a hour.
    2. Mix everything else together, then the mix from step #1. You’ll get a sticky batter.
    3. Transfer the batter to a greased baking dish; preferably a large one, you want the batter to be thinly spread.
    4. Let the batter ferment for a few hours; the actual time depends on weather, but it should at least double in size.
    5. Add the sliced bananas over it. Then the crumbles. Then bake the thing 180°C, in pre-heated oven, for 30min or so. You know it’s done when you stick a toothpick in it and it comes out clean.
    6. Let it rest a bit then enjoy.