i think i had some at our last reunion...
Posted on 11/04/2007 4:19:58 PM PST by james500
A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old.
According to the 1432 guidelines, Thuringian sausage-makers had to use only the purest, unspoiled meat and were threatened with a fine of 24 pfennigs - a day's wages - if they did not, a spokesman for the German Bratwurst Museum said.
Medieval town markets in Germany had committees charged with monitoring the quality of produce.
Thuringian bratwursts, which are made of beef and pork, are symbols of Germany's cultural heritage and ubiquitous snacks at football matches.
Historian Hubert Erzmann, 75, found the ancient recipe, inscribed with pen and ink in a heavy tome of parchment, earlier this year while doing research in an archive in the eastern town of Weimar, museum spokesman Thomas Maeuer said.
"The discovery shows that there were already consumer protection laws in the Middle Ages," he said.
I love heritage or antique recipes, but I don’t have any that are 600 years old as far as I know. Wow.
According to the 1432 guidelines, Thuringian sausage-makers had to use only the purest, unspoiled meat and were threatened with a fine of 24 pfennigs - a day's wages - if they did notAnd the fine was double for sausage found to have transfats.
**Freeper Kitchen Ping**
The word of the day is ubiquitous.
PING!
i think i had some at our last reunion...
Quaff quote
"The best known and most famous brewing law is the Reinheitsgebot. The "Purity Law" is the oldest food regulation in the world and still exists today unchanged from the original. It was ordered by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria in the year 1516. It said that beer should only be brewed from barley, hops and water. Thanks to the regulation, Bavarian beers then became leaders among their peers. Thus other lands of Germany also enforced the regulation."
From http://www.oldworld.ws/okbeerhist.html
Beer and sausage bump
"The instructions go on display Thursday in the Bratwurst Museum near the eastern city of Erfurt, Thuringia's capital."
“Bratwurst must be like that or so a crack sausage...”
(excerpt from original 1432 recipe)
Beer is STILL regulated
Are you on the foodie list?
LOL!!
Malt. Der Reinheitsgebot von 1516 - Barley, MALT, hops, water...
You caught me napping.
L0L good thread. its interesting that the Germans had purity laws way back then.
Something the Chinese could note.
Hows that Cassoulet coming? Im feeling a bit peckish
Best recipe ever
So are they gonna keep the recipe secret for another 600 years or what ?
Where is it ?......:o)
There is a foodie list?
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