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
Name of Andalusia "Gothica sors", a Latin exonym of the Visigothic Kingdom, which translates to "Gothic lot", Halm reconstructs a Gothic term that would correspond to the Latin term, meaning "lot lands", as "*landahlauts". The hypothetical term would have given rise both to the Latin loan translation "Gothica sors" and to the Arabic "al-Andalus", by phonetic imitation. Name of Andalusia The toponym "al-Andalus" () is first attested in inscriptions on coins minted by the Umayyad rulers of Iberia, from ca. 715. The etymology of the name has traditionally been derived from the name of the "Vandals" (who settled in Hispania in the 5th