Flour, Germ & Yeast Dough, Reindling Dough Spice from S! mix and salt in a large bowl and form a hollow in the middle.

Warm the milk lukewarm and put it in the hollow, add some of the sugar and the crumbled yeast and let it stand for a short time.

In the meantime, heat the butter and simmer well with yolk, rum and the remaining sugar – preferably with a whisk – and add to the milk. 

Now knead everything well – with dough hooks from the hand blender or alternatively with the food processor. The dough should be nice and smooth at the end and detach from the edge of the bowl.

Then cover in the oven at a maximum of 50°C or in another warm place, let it rise twice as high, remove and "knock off" (knead together). Then put back in the oven.

Repeat the process in the oven twice. The first time "rising" takes about half an hour, for the other times it usually only takes a quarter of an hour.

Hint: The more often the Berlin dough rises, the more fine-pored and supple it becomes!

Knead down the yeast dough again, then cut off small pieces of dough with a dough spatula or a tablespoon and "grind" them into round balls.

Grinding and baking

With light pressure and circular movements, the dough is rolled by hand on a lightly floured surface until it becomes a ball with a smooth surface.

Place the round-shaped Berliners on a floured surface, cover with a cloth and let it rise again.

Heat clarified butter or oil in a high pan or saucepan.

Tip: If small bubbles rise on a wooden stem dipped in fat, then it is hot enough!

Put the Berliners with the upper side first and bake in floating fat at low to medium temperature (150° – 160°) covered for about 3 to 4 minutes. When they have taken on a beautiful golden brown color, turn the Berliners and bake for another 3 minutes open without lid.

Remove the freshly baked Berliners with a ladle, drain on kitchen roll and let cool a little.

Then fill the Berliners with a syringe or a syringe bag with spout with apricot jam. To do this, carefully pierce the side of the white edge and inject the jam into it.

Finally, sprinkle with icing sugar!