They went to the St. Martin's Day parade with the children and had a lot of fun with the beautiful lanterns. But now your stomach is growling and you can hardly wait to get home and enjoy the meal you have prepared. And not only does the roast goose smell fragrant there, but also the sweet St. Martin's goose pastry. If you want to create exactly this atmosphere, you can easily do so with one of our recipes. We'll show you how to bake the classic St. Martin's goose with yeast dough as well as an alternative without yeast.
Preparing yeast dough takes some time, but it tastes really delicious, so the effort is definitely worth it. So if you prefer the classic, you can bake St. Martin's goose with this recipe:
- 500 g Flour
- 1 cube of fresh yeast
- 60g sugar
- 60 g Butter
- 200 ml lukewarm milk
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk for brushing
- Juice of a quarter of a lemon
- 1 egg yolk for brushing
- to decorate: raisins, sugar/sugar sprinkles
- Goose cookie cutter
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
Mix the flour with the yeast, sugar, butter, milk, egg and lemon juice. As soon as the dough becomes a little tougher, you can knead it with your hands. Then cover the bowl and let the yeast dough rise for 45 minutes. Then roll it out and cut out geese with a cookie cutter and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. But you can also make small geese out of balls, like in the picture below.
Brush the geese with the egg yolk and use the raisins for eyesinto the yeast dough. Sprinkle the remaining goose body with sugar and then bake each goose. After about 17 minutes, you can take them out of the oven, let them cool down briefly and, ideally, snack on them while they are still warm (if you use the ball version, bake them a little longer). You can also use colorful sprinkles to decorate.
Would you like another traditional yeast pastry? How about itwith the Epiphany cake?
Quark oil dough as an alternative to yeast
You can save yourself the waiting time for the yeast dough by baking St. Martin's goose from a quark-oil dough instead. In order for this to rise well, you need baking powder and in larger quantities than usual. This is how you can bake a St. Martin's goose with quark:
- 300 g flour + for sprinkling the work surface
- 150 g Quark
- 100g sugar
- 8 EL Kill
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk for brushing
- 1 packet of baking powder
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- to decorate: raisins for the eyes
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
With this St. Martin's Goose recipe, you also knead the ingredients and roll out the dough. Since the dough is quite sticky, you should flour the worktop and your hands beforehand. Line a baking tray with baking paper, cut out the geese using a suitable shape and distribute them on the tray. Brush the future pastries with egg yolk and stick the raisins into the quark dough as eyes. The geese are baked using top and bottom heat for about 12 minutes.
Make your own stuffed geese
You can also use the curd dough if you want to bake a stuffed goose. You can use jam of your choice or aNougat cream of your choice. Or mix chopped hazelnuts with grated or chopped milk chocolate and egg whites and a little sugar if desired.
Then cut out geese about half a centimeter thick; you will need two pieces per stuffed goose. Spread a little filling over the goose and brush the edges of the dough with egg yolk. Place a second goose on top and press the dough down around the edges. Then, as usual, brush the tops with egg yolk and bake the St. Martin’s geese.
Bake St. Martin's goose without a cookie cutter
If you spontaneously want to bake a St. Martin's goose and therefore don't have a cookie cutter at hand, that's no problem at all. You can also just use the gooseshape by hand, which is not only easier than it sounds, but also looks much more interesting. The geese then shine in 3D.
The easiest way to make this variant is with the curd dough.
- First form a ball, then stretch it slightly to get an oval shape. This leaves one side rounded while you make the other a little more pointed for the tail.
- Then shape the neck and head from another piece of dough. You can use the number “2” as a guide for this.
- Add wings to the right and left and you're done with the St. Martin's goose shape. As a precaution, you can attach the head and neck to the body with a toothpick.
- You can make two eyes out of raisins, while the beak can be made out of an almond.
Bake the geese at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes.
