German Yeast Cake

Spend a little time in the Barossa Valley and you soon learn that making a German yeast cake, or streusel kuchen, is a highly respected art form – and every cook has their own way of doing it. Traditionally, people learnt how to make them working alongside their mother or grandmother, often using a commercial kuchen essence, which is now difficult to come by, and a secret recipe handed down through the generations but kept strictly within the family.

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