Historical Cooking - An Old Cock, Beat To Pieces

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VictualSquid: Feb 29, 2012; Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

KozmoNaut posted:

My girlfriend is from southern Germany, and we have a couple of oldschool cookbooks from the region.

Lots and lots of lentils and root vegetables, and maybe a sausage or a bit of bacon for the entire pot of stew, for flavor. Usually the man of the house would get that in his portion.

Everything was very heavy on legumes, root vegetables, noodles (spätzle), bread and cabbage, because that was all people could afford. Modern versions of the same recipes add a ton more meat, the difference is striking.

Of course that contrasts wildly with my l'Art Culinaire Francaise from 1954, where seemingly every recipe starts with 300g of butter

Yeah, a lot of actually traditional dishes are "as much meat as you can afford", starting at zero". Though a lot of south German recipes also contain a lot of cheese, especially if they are still popular in a low meat variant.

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VictualSquid: Feb 29, 2012; Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

It makes me think of Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of his visit to the Hofbrauhaus in 1933, wherein he describes the "burghers" upstairs with "hands like bundles of sausages" "packing in forkload on forkload of ham, salami, frankfurter, krenwurst and blutwurst", followed by "colossal joints of meat".

He doesn't describe the food in the peasant hall downstairs where he ends up drinking (probably in part because he was about to pass out from drinking and not eating himself), but I think the implication was that it, and the peasants drinking there, were a lot leaner and healthier (other than drinking vast quantities of beer).

I think 33 it should already be Brezen & Obazda (a cheese spread). With brown bread or just butter instead, if you are thrifty or additional cold cuts if you feel generous. Probably brought in by themselves from neighbouring bakers/home, instead of ordered at the HB.
The only vegetables being the onions in the Obazda or some mustard cucumbers. Not actually more healthy. Or they would just not eat while drinking.

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