Oh I am looking forward to this

[SeaCat]

This week I haven't been doing a lot of cooking for a couple of reasons. Well I've been cooking but nothing interesting.

This afternoon however my parents forwarded a recipe to me I'm looking forwards to making. It's an old recipe for Hasenpfeffer from an area of Germany called Schwabenland. The book they pulled it from is an older one, mid 1800's.

Having read through the recipe I'm looking forward to making this.

Cat

 

[Katyusha]

This week I haven't been doing a lot of cooking for a couple of reasons. Well I've been cooking but nothing interesting.

This afternoon however my parents forwarded a recipe to me I'm looking forwards to making. It's an old recipe for Hasenpfeffer from an area of Germany called Schwabenland. The book they pulled it from is an older one, mid 1800's.

Having read through the recipe I'm looking forward to making this.

Cat

"Cook! COOK! Where's my hassenpfeffer?!"

 

[Weird Harold]

The book they pulled it from is an older one, mid 1800's.

That's one of those recipes that starts, "First catch a rabbit..." isn't it.

 

[SeaCat]

"Cook! COOK! Where's my hassenpfeffer?!"

Me thinks it's eating in the garden right now.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

That's one of those recipes that starts, "First catch a rabbit..." isn't it.

Actually having seen the book and checked out a couple of the recipes they usually start with;

Chop some wood for the fire as you're going to need it.

Cat

I have a recipe around here that you would love, I'll have to dig it out again.

 

[Weird Harold]

Actually having seen the book and checked out a couple of the recipes they usually start with;

Chop some wood for the fire as you're going to need it.

Cat

I have a recipe around here that you would love, I'll have to dig it out again.

But, if ya ain't got no rabbit, why would you need firewood?

I do like old recipes that don't include things like "one can of..." -- Although you have to go a bit further back than mid-1800's to be free of that particular instruction.

My mother used to have a first edition Whitehouse Cookbook -- which usually assumes sufficient wood for cooking would be on hand but didn't assume you knew how to butcher various critters. I don't recall the exact date of Mom's whitehouse cookbook, or if it was the true first (Dolly Madison) edition or just the first printing of a later revision. I don't generally go to the time or trouble of cooking completely from scratch -- Pillsbury Grands make better dumplings than I can make from scratch and are a LOT less messy. It is nice to have really old recipes to fall back on when the economy forces one to eschew convenience foods and cook cheaply.

 

[tiggerlilly]

Yum

Do you mean Schwabia? South west Germany? Fantastic food. Wholesome is the best description, I think. I adore sptaezle ( no umlaut on my keyboard).... central European noodles. You need to drill some holes in a large wooden spoon, and let the mixture drip through into boiling water.

Lil

This week I haven't been doing a lot of cooking for a couple of reasons. Well I've been cooking but nothing interesting.

This afternoon however my parents forwarded a recipe to me I'm looking forwards to making. It's an old recipe for Hasenpfeffer from an area of Germany called Schwabenland. The book they pulled it from is an older one, mid 1800's.

Having read through the recipe I'm looking forward to making this.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Do you mean Schwabia? South west Germany? Fantastic food. Wholesome is the best description, I think. I adore sptaezle ( no umlaut on my keyboard).... central European noodles. You need to drill some holes in a large wooden spoon, and let the mixture drip through into boiling water.

Lil

Yes and Yes. I too have the problem of no Umlaut on my keyboard. I know there is a way to produce it using ASCII but I have no idea what it is.

Cat