Plum cake fruit in these open tarts or flans is cut into suitably sized pieces and the cake is glazed: red glaze is recommended for red plum and rhubarb flans, whereas apricot glaze is recommended in yellow plum and apricot flans. The German plum cake, known as "Zwetschkenkuchen", can be found all over the country, although its home is Bavaria. In chef Robert Carrier's recipe for it, the base is made from yeast pastry rather than often used shortcrust pastry, because the yeast pastry "soaks up the juice form the plums without becoming soggy". In Italy, plum cake is known by the
Armenian cuisine and is made from selected local white grapes grown in the Ararat Valley which is giving it a shade of caramel brown. "Popular Brands" Oghi ( "òġi") – an Armenian alcoholic beverage usually distilled from fruit; also called "aragh". "Artsakh" is a well-known brand name of Armenian mulberry vodka ("tuti oghi") produced in Nagorno-Karabakh from local fruit. In the Armenian Diaspora, where fruit vodka is not distilled, "oghi" refers to the aniseed-flavored distilled alcoholic drink called "arak" in the Middle East, raki in Turkey, or ouzo in Greece. The alcoholic drink with the longest history in Armenia is wine. The