As promised, here's the recipe.
Semmeln (rolls)
(that should yield 20 rolls)
The dough :
500 grams flour
30 g yeast
1/4 litre warm milk
50 g butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
a pinch of grated pepper
a pinch of grated nutmeg
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2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons warm milk
optional :
poppy seeds or sesame seeds
Put flour in a bowl.
Form a depression in the middle and
crumble in the yeast and por the milk in.
Mix with some of the flour in the bowl.
Cover and let it rest for 15 minutes.
Melt the butter and mix in egg, salt, pepper
and nutmeg.
Pour the mix into the bowl and make a smooth
dough.
Cover the bowl again and let the dough rest for
30 minutes.
Spread butter on baking tin (or use baking paper).
Cut dough into 40 gram pieces.
Form the pieces into balls and put on the tin.
Flatten a little with your hands.
Cover again and let them rest for another 20 minutes.
Heat oven to 200 deg Celsius.
Mix egg yolks with milk baste rolls with the mix.
(Optionally : Now sprinkle poppy or sesame seeds
on them).
Take a sharp knife and cut in the loaves 1.5 - 2 cm
deep.
The cut should look like an "S" with another "S" rotated
90 degrees clockwise. Or cut a cross.
Put an ovenproof cup with water in the oven.
Bake the rolls on the second rail from the bottom
for ca. 20 minutes.
Cheers,
Michael Kuettner