Kleinur

Ingredients

1 kg vegetable fat (for deep-frying)

300 g wheat flour
125 g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baker's ammonia
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cardamom
1 tsp grated orange peel
30 g buttermilk
30 g ricotta
1 egg
40 g margarine


Preparation

Slowly melt the vegetable fat in a large pot over medium heat.

Mix the flour with the sugar, baking powder, staghorn salt, salt, cardamom and grated orange peel in a bowl. Make a well in the center and add the buttermilk, ricotta cheese, egg and margarine and then work everything into a smooth dough.

Roll out the dough in portions on a floured work surface.

Cut the rolled out dough into approx. 5 cm wide strands and then cut at a 45° angle so that diamonds are created from the rolled out dough. Cut a slit in the middle of each diamond with a sharp knife (or a pizza cutter, for example) and pull the ends of the dough through so that the whole thing is "twisted".

Then fry the individual, twisted pieces of dough in the hot fat for about 2 minutes, turning them over if necessary. Be careful not to bake the cookies in the fat for too long - they will darken in the air afterwards!

Fish the finished Kleinur out of the hot fat with a spoon and drain on kitchen paper and allow to cool.

Kleinur, cinnamon rolls and a tray of “Happy Marriage” cake

[Translated from here.]