The Tumtum Tree

Krumcake

Thank you Sweet Celebrations

• 3 eggs, well beaten

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1/2 cup butter

• 1/2 cup flour

• 1 tsp lemon extract (for variation almond or vanilla)

Add sugar to eggs, and beat well (too much and the krumkakes are tough), melt butter and add to mixture, then add flour and flavoring.

Cook in krumkake iron until 'golden brown' cooking time will vary depending on your stove, iron, batter etc. I cook for 30-45 seconds on each side.

Lembas

By Robin C. Poe

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup honey (preferably wild honey)
• 1 tablespoon grated orange peel or three kumquats or one large finger of a hand of Buddha.
• 2 teaspoons orange flower water (optional)
• 3 oz blanched almonds
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2-1/4 cups semolina flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Place eggs, honey, orange peel or other fruit, orange flower water, and almonds in blender. Blend on high for 3 minutes. Add 1 cup of the flour. Blend for 1 minute. Scrape into a bowl and add remaining flour and salt. Whisk or stir until well blended. Bake lembas on a pizzelle or krumkake iron 15 seconds each or until lightly brown. You may substitute a waffle iron but add a teaspoon of baking powder. The texture will not be quite accurate in a waffle iron.

Pretending to be Krumkakes

By smIsle

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 c sugar
• 1/2 c butter (mostly melted)
• 1 sprinkle salt
• 1 tsp flavoring
• flour

Mix sugar and eggs, add butter. Stir in flour until desired thickness (around 1 cup). Add salt and any extra flavoring. Cook on krumkake iron until "golden brown"

I've been experimenting with thicker dough, too thick and the krumkakes get tough and chewy, too thin and they either never cook and make a big mess, or cook into thin, feathery messes :P

Krumkake lembas

(a variation on Robin C. Poe's Lembas)
By Carnimiriel

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup honey (or possibly maple or birch syrup)
• dash nutmeg or ground cloves (just because I like them - no textual evidence at all here)
• 2 teaspoons orange (or some other?) flower water
• 3 oz blanched almonds (hazelnuts?)
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2 1/4 cups semolina flour (or maybe whole wheat?)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Place eggs, honey, orange flower water, and almonds in blender. Blend on high for 3 minutes. Add 1 cup of the flour. Blend for 1 minute. Scrape into a bowl and add remaining flour and salt. Whisk or stir until well blended. Bake lembas on a pizzelle or krumkake iron 15 seconds each or until lightly brown. You may substitute a waffle iron but add a teaspoon of baking powder. The texture will not be quite accurate in a waffle iron.

Chia Krumkakes

(another variation on Robin C. Poe's Lembas)
By smIsle

• 2/3 cup chia OR 2 small eggs or one large egg
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• dash nutmeg or ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon orange (or some other?) flower water
• 1/3 cup finely chopped hazelnuts
• 1/8 cup melted butter
• 1 1/8 cups whole wheat
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Place chia/eggs, syrup, orange flower water, and hazelnuts in blender. Blend on high for 3 minutes. Add 1 cup of the flour. Blend for 1 minute. Scrape into a bowl and add remaining flour and salt. Whisk or stir until well blended. Bake lembas on a pizzelle or krumkake iron 15 seconds each or until lightly brown. You may substitute a waffle iron but add a teaspoon of baking powder. The texture will not be quite accurate in a waffle iron.

smIsle's Chia Lembas

By smIsle

• 2 cups flour- whole-wheat
• 1 teaspoon baking powder or less
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup chia seeds soaked in 1:9 ratio chia to water(6 cups water) If you want to grind your chia do so BEFORE you soak the seeds.
• 2 eggs slightly beaten
• 1/4 cup sugar- for syrups use half this amount
• 4 or 5 Tablespoons butter melted, than cooled- I just let it soften... your choice
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla extract- If you have something better, use it
• some water
• nutmeg to taste- use any flavoring you like
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice- if you like

Mix dry ingredients together. Mix eggs and chia add to dry ingredients. Then add the butter and vanilla. If the batter is too thick (it should be like muffin or thick pancake batter) add water. Add the nutmeg to taste.

Heat krumkake or waffle iron. For krumkakes- drop one tablespoon batter onto heated iron and bake for about 30 seconds or until golden brown remove, repeat. For waffle iron- I dropped spoonfuls into each of the quarters of the iron and cooked until they were "golden brown". as krumkakes this recipe makes about 3 dozen. As waffles this recipe makes about 3 whole waffles.

Krumkake Lembas

By Almacundo/*Auirandos

Makes 30 wafers:

• 1 cup birch syrup
• 1/2 cup butter

Hard boil for 30 seconds.

Combine:

• 3 beaten eggs
• 5 tablespoons or 1/2 cup cultured sour cream*
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean in distilled spiced blackberry melomel ( a modification from my original post--my version of the "ultimate miruvor")
• A dash of elderflower water

Add to liquid ingredients.

Then add up to 1 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (also called graham flour). The amount of flour varies depending on the consistency of the batter that results.

This must be heated on an Krumkake or pizzelle iron.

* My cookbook says that when using syrup as a sweetener to substitute for sugar to reduce the amount of other liquids by 3 tablespoons for each cup of sugar in the original recipe. I'm not sure whether the sour cream counts as liquid or not. If yes, use the 5 tablespoons, if not, use the 1/2 cup measure.