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“Sacher” is an institution closely connected with Austria’s
history and frequently also with the history of Europe.
Let us travel back down memory lane to the not always “good old
times”, which later became the victim of nostalgic and
sentimental desires: back to the Viennese Biedermeier – to the
year 1832. |
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Europe”, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, issues the command to
his head chef to create a delicious dessert for fastidious
honourable guests, “He is not allowed to bring dishonour upon me
tonight!” And this at a time when the head chef is confined to his
sick-bed! The commission is passed on and ends up with a
sixteen-year-old second-year apprentice cook, the bright “lad” Franz
Sacher… Nobody knows exactly what happened hereafter. |
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| The Hotel Sacher around 1900 ©
Hotel Sacher Vienna |
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There are many legends surrounding it. In any
case, the delicacy presented to the nobility was of exceptionally
good taste: this tender, fluffy chocolate cake with zesty apricot
marmalade under the icing.
History is full of anecdotes; but that this “delicacy set forth on a
unique triumphal march around the world”, as a religious writer
relates, is not at all far-fetched. Franz surely remembered very
well how he succeeded with his “stroke of genius” amongst a small
group of people. The fully trained chef, after years of learning the
trade with Prince Esterhazy, ventured first to Bratislava, then
Budapest to strive for independence: he offered his composition once
again, this time on a grand scale. And he won: before long there was
great demand everywhere for the “cake of Sacher” and probably the
most famous of cakes began its triumphant success around the world. |
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The Hotel Sacher Vienna
– opened 1876 by Eduard Sacher,
son of the inventor of the
Original Sacher-Torte –
an Austrian institution. |
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Hotel entrance
© Hotel Sacher Vienna |
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Frontal view at night
© Hotel Sacher Vienna |
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| At hotel Sacher we combine tradition,
luxury, style and Viennese charm with comfort and pleasure. We hope to
welcome you as a guest in one of our 5 Star Austrian Hotels or one of
our Sacher coffee houses. |
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Hotel
Sacher Wien |
| A 1010 Vienna, Philharmonikerstr. 4 |
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+43-(0)1- 514560 |
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+43-(0)1- 51456810 |
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map |
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| Cake Sacher-style |
| (this is not the original recipe) |
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| Ingredients |
| For 1 baking pan 22-24cm diameter = 12
servings |
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130g butter
110g caster sugar
1 single sachet of vanilla sugar (8g)
6 eggs
130g cooking chocolate
110g granulated sugar
130g plain cake flour
Butter for greasing the cake form
Apricot marmalade for filling
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125ml water
300g granulated sugar
250g plain chocolate |
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| Preparation |
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Melt the cooking chocolate. Add the
caster sugar and vanilla sugar to the butter until creamy, stir in egg
yolk bit by bit, then add the melted chocolate and mix properly.
Whip the egg white with the granulated sugar until creamy and
carefully fold it into the melted chocolate mix. Finally stir in the
flour.
Pour this batter into the baking pan (which has been well greased
with butter), put it into the preheated oven at 170 degrees C and bake
it for 1 hour; for the first 15 minutes, leave the oven door open a
finger’s breadth.
When ready invert the cake and let it cool.
Heat up the apricot marmalade to 70 degrees C.
Slice through the cake in the middle, spread the marmalade onto the
lower half and put the cake together again. Coat all the outside with
marmalade; after that leave it to dry off for at least 2 hours.
For the icing, cook the sugar with the water for about 5 minutes and
let it cool down.
Soften the chocolate in a water bath and mix with the still warm
sugar solution so that you get a thick, smooth icing; should it become
too thick, thin down with some water.
Pour the lukewarm icing over the cake and spread all around.
Put the Sacher cake into a cool place until icing is dry. Then cut
it into 12 slices and serve it with whipped cream as desired. |
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Internet Portal
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Praterstrasse 33/20
A-1020 Vienna
Tel: +43/01/9580808
Fax: +43/01/9580909
E-Mail: office@citype.com
www.citype.com
FN 200659 m
ATU 50515900 |
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