Martin geese made from quark oil dough

These St Martin's geese made from quark and oil dough are made every year for St Martin's Day. The dough is easy to mix and with a suitable cookie cutter, the little geese turn out particularly well. At the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum, we delight young and old alike when the little pastries come fresh from the wood fired oven.

Method:

  1. First, gradually mix the low-fat quark, raw cane sugar and milk in a bowl using a long-handled spoon.
  2. Now stir in the oil little by little.
  3. Add the eggs and mix well.
  4. Mix the flour well with the baking powder, salt and potato starch and fold into the wet ingredients.
  5. Knead into a ball of dough on a lightly floured surface and divide into four portions.
  6. Roll out the quarter of the dough about 5 millimetres thick with a rolling pin on a floured surface.
  7. Cut out the Martin geese close together with the cookie cutter.
  8. Place the goslings on a floured baking sheet.
  9. Beat a whole egg with a fork and brush the Martins geese with a brush.
  10. Press in a raisin for an eye and gently sprinkle on the wings using a cinnamon & sugar teaspoon.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven at 200 °C on the middle rail for 20 minutes until golden.