Recipe For Kuchen With Concord Grapes?

Dear Maryeileen,

I wish I had this receipe for you. I too remember my German grandmother making these cakes with grapes. Also with peaches or cottage cheese. You really brought back memories for me.

Bonnie

There was a concord grape kuchen recipe in the Plain Dealer the other week- maybe last Wednesday or the Wednesday before. Go on their website and see if you can retrieve it. My Grandma in Maple Heights also made this kuchen- she made it look so easy!

Maryeileen
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November 1, 20070 found this helpful

Susanna, The reader who submitted the question to The Plain Dealer is my Dad! (The recipe that Bev printed in her column is not the one we're looking for.)

My Dutch grandmother made grape Kuchen (skins and seeds) and I am looking for recipe also. I remember whole grapes in the kuchen and also on top with lots of sugar?

maggie

March 13, 20110 found this helpful

Did you ever get the recipe? I would love to have it. My mother made this every fall (along with peach, apple and cheese kuchens) The aroma was intoxicating.

Seamstress

September 10, 20114 found this helpful

Grape Kuchen

2 cups sifted flour
3 teas. baking powder
1/2 teas. salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening ( I use unsalted butter)
1 beaten egg
1 cup milk
4 cups of Concord grapes (approx.)

Leave the grapes on the stems, and rinse in a colander, and let sit and drain while you mix the dough. Don't take them off the stems to rinse, because they absorb too much water.

Sift the dry ingredients together. Cut the shortening into the dry ingredients until dry and crumbly. Beat the egg with the milk, and add to the dry ingredients. Mix until just blended.

Spread batter into a 9 x 13" pan, that has been greased and floured.
Starting at one corner of your pan, remove the grapes from the stems, and place them side by side, as close together as you can, making rows across the pan.

Topping
Mix together to make a crumb topping:

1/2 cup sifted flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 teas. cinnamon
1/4 cup melted butter

Crumble this mixture over the top of your grapes in the pan, and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Maryeileen
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September 23, 20120 found this helpful

mjk4: I used your recipe and everyone in my family says it's the closest to Grandma's that they've had. Thanks!

judyvernia

October 21, 20190 found this helpful

My mother used pillsbury hot roll mix (1box) following package directions ( it contains yeast and add 1 tbsp sugar and 2 eggs instead of the one called for by the package directions. This made 2 9 inch kuchens. Added grapes and pushed down into dough a bit. Topped with: 1 and 1/2 cup flour, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1and 1/2 cups of hard cold margarine ( this was back in the 50s) mix with fork or hands till crumbly.

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Top and bake kuchens per package directions. This may have come from the Cleveland Plain Dealer because I have several other recipes she saved from that newspaper and the Cleveland Press. Hope this helps.