A Gundel crêpe (original Gundel palacsinta) is a
crêpe
A crêpe or crepe ( or , , ) is a dish made from unleavened batter or dough that is cooked on a frying pan or a griddle. Crêpes are usually one of two varieties: ''sweet crêpes'' () or ''savoury galettes'' (). They are often served ...
-like variety of
pancake
A pancake, also known as a hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, is a flat type of batter bread like cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based Batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk, and butter, and then cooked on a ...
from
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
.
Overview
The first Gundel crêpe was created and invented by
Károly Gundel,
who made the pancake with ground walnuts, raisins, and rum filling, served flambéed in a dark
chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods.
Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...
sauce made with egg yolks, heavy cream and cocoa. The original recipe is secret; only the
Gundel restaurant knows it. The restaurant serves 25,000 portions to their guests annually.
Austria
The dessert is well known in Austrian cuisine. They recommend this pancake sometimes as chocolate-walnut palatschinke or walnut palatschinke in Austria. It is usually served with whipped cream and normally does not contain raisins. The Hotel Sacher presents it based on the original prescription, with caramelized walnut.
See also
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Palatschinke
Palatschinke (plural palatschinken) is a thin crêpe-like variety of pancake of Greco-Roman origin. The dessert is common in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe.
History and etymology
The dish is of Greco-Roman origin.. In 350 BCE, the a ...
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List of pancakes
This is a list of notable pancakes. A pancake is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter (cooking), batter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. In Britain, pancakes are often leavening agent, ...
References
Bibliography
* Gundel, Karoly (1992). Gundel's Hungarian cookbook. Budapest: Corvina. p. 127. . OCLC 32227400
External links
Gundel website
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Hungarian desserts
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Flambéed foods