Platz. Pronounced plowtz. Like grieva, either you love it or you hate it. I personally despised this dessert, but it was requested that I do a post on it, so here it is.
Growing up, this was my foster mothers main go-to dessert for any function or family gathering, along with pie. The problem was, when she would make it for functions, she would always bring back the left overs, unlike the pie. And we were the lucky ones that had to eat it because she could never throw food away. We weren’t happy about it, but would eat it knowing that she wouldn’t make another dessert until it was gone. Maybe if she didn’t make it all of the time we would’ve liked it more. At first she made the platz with strawberries, saskatoons, and apples. And we didn’t mind eating it. Then she decided to make the platz with jam instead of fresh or frozen fruit, and it all went downhill from there.
She would can so much jam in the fall that we had jam in the pantry that dated back at least 5 years because we just couldn’t (and didn’t want to) consume so much jam. As children, we would scoop as much jam onto our bun as we could, just to try to get rid of it. We ate jam on everything. Jam on gellete, jam on homemade yogurt, jam on buns, jam jam cookies, jam on roll kuchen, jam on pancakes, jam sandwiches every day for lunch, but it just seemed like the jars never ended. So I guess to get rid of the jam, my foster mother decided to start putting it on the platz, but it was not good! I don’t think my sisters liked it, but I despised the jam platz!
For the past 10 years, I’d have a craving for platz, but never actually wanted to waste my time making it because I remembered my hatred for the wretched dessert. I sometimes threatened my children that if they didn’t finish their dinner, I’d make them platz. Have you ever tried talking with a dry mouth full of soda crackers? That’s what it reminded me of. Go do it now. Shove 7 crackers in your mouth, and before you swallow, say ‘Platz’. That’s what platz was for me. Jam and soda crackers.
Looking for the recipe that I grew up with was a long and stressful process. This is the fourth recipe that I made, and it was the one that my foster mother says she used. To tell you the truth, the first recipe that I made was awful! But then every one that I made after kept getting better and better! Three recipes down, and although they tasted good, they just weren’t the ones that I was looking for. So I brought my foster mothers recipe book with when I went to visit her yesterday and she let me know that it was in fact a completely different recipe. So that is the one I made today. Only I used frozen blueberries instead of jam, and it worked out really good! It turns out I do actually like platz, when it’s made properly.
For the crust you will need: 2 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of shortening or butter, 1 cup of cream and 1 egg.
Fresh or frozen fruit of your choice.
For the topping you will need: 3/4 cups of sugar, 3/4 cups of flour, 1/2 a teaspoon of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of butter and 3 tablespoons of cream.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Celsius.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and sugar. Mix in the butter/shortening until it looks like fine crumbs.
Add the cream and egg and mix until completely blended.
Press the dough onto a cookie sheet until the pan is completely covered, pressing up the edges to make a crust.
Spread fruit out onto the crust and sprinkle some sugar over the fruit (optional).
Mix the sugar, flour and baking powder. Add the butter and cream and mix with your hands to make coarse crumbs.
Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit.
Bake in the oven at 375 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
Let it cool down, serve and enjoy!
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- 2 cups Flour
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- 4 Tbsp Sugar
- 2 Tbsp Shortening or Butter
- 1 cup Cream
- 1 Egg
- Fresh or Frozen fruit of your choice
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 3/4 cup Flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 3 Tbsp Cream
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, and sugar.
- Mix in the butter/shortening until it looks like fine crumbs.
- Add the cream and egg and mix until completely blended.
- Press the dough onto a cookie sheet until completely covered pressing up the edges to make a crust.
- Spread fruit out onto the crust and sprinkle sugar over the fruit (optional).
- Mix the sugar, flour and baking powder. Add the butter and cream and mix with your hands to make coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle evenly over the fruit.
- Bake in the oven at 375 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
- Let cool down, serve and enjoy!
I guess I don’t really want to make this after all. Horrible as you describe it.
Ha ha! It’s probably for the best.
Love platz…my favorite is made with fresh rhubarb. I think the most traditional is with plums?!
I have never tried it with either, but rhubarb sounds yummy!
Love this dessert especially with plums.
Pretty sure you don’t want to bake at 375C. That’s 707F. Other than a blast furnace, I’m not sure where you get an oven that hot.