Speckkuchen
Bacon cake is a flatbread with a topping of chopped up bacon , which is baked in different variations. Bacon cakes are mostly sheet cakes made of yeast dough with a topping of steamed onions, bacon, caraway seeds and with an egg coating. These cakes are served warm, for example with young wine or with Federweißer.
The dish is prepared and consumed in large quantities , especially in the country, at events such as the fair or Christmas markets. Bacon cakes are sold at food stalls and in bakeries. As with many regional specialties, every village and every baker has their own bacon cake recipe.
history
Bacon cakes are said to have been known since the time of the Goths . Speckkuchen can be found in German writings and cookbooks since the beginning of the 15th century. The bacon cake was mostly a pastry for the servants ( servant cake ) or for servants and maids , it was considered in non-German countries as a holiday pastry .
variants
A North Hessian specialty is made Roggenbrotteig on sourdough made basis. Traditionally, the bacon cake was made in the northern Hessian villages on baking days in the ovens of the village communities. The bacon cake was baked in the oven, which was still hot but too cold for baking bread, as a meal for the day. It was and is popular in Kassel as a quick snack, especially on market days.
On the unrolled on a baking tray bread dough is a consistent mixture of sour cream , eggs, leek ( "Span hose") with breadcrumbs sprinkled bacon bits distributed and spices and baked.
Web links
- Bacon cake at the Hessischer Rundfunk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden | Bacon Cake | Spelling, meaning, definition. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Claus Schünemann: Technology of the bakery production . 11th edition. Fachbuchverlag Pfanneberg GmbH & Co. KG, Haan, ISBN 978-3-8057-0761-9 ( europa-lehrmittel.de [PDF; accessed on July 18, 2020]).
- ↑ On chests and chest stones, bards and bard songs, feasts, feasts (etc.) and dishes of the gossip. Along with certificates . Ettinger'sche Buchh., 1802 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Egon Friedell: Cultural History of the Modern Era: From the End of the Middle Ages to the First World War (Complete editions: Volumes 1–5): Renaissance and Reformation + Baroque and Rococo + Enlightenment and Revolution + Romanticism and Liberalism + Imperialism and Impressionism . e-artnow, 2014, ISBN 978-80-268-2527-2 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Carnival Games from the fifteenth century: 1 . Litterarischer Verein, 1853 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Hans Sachs: Very wonderful, beautiful, and warped poem: The other book, Very Herrliche Schoene Artliche and bound poem in some ways: As Tragedi, Comedi, Spiel, Gessprech, Spruech und Fabel, in which the short and clear are given to the day, Much good Christian and moral teaching, also much warmer and strange histori, sampled a number of short twists, but not annoying to anyone, but everyone useful and easy to read; Three hundred and ten toes in the first book, never seen or gone out in the truck before. 2 . 1560 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Brandenburgia, Society for Local History of the Province of Brandenburg Berlin: "Brandenburgia.": Monthly newspaper of the Society for Local History of the Province of Brandenburg in Berlin . P. Stankiewicz, 1897 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Wittenbergisches Wochenblatt to take up natural history and the economic trade ... ed. by Johann Daniel-Titius . Dürr, S. 76 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ The Heimath0: Wochenblatt. for customer d. Lower Rhine. Story including d. Sagas, legends, customs etc. 1876 . H. Keussen, 1876 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Fragment of an old travelogue from Magister Sincerus to his friend in Swabia, Doctor Silantius: along with enclosures 1 - 7 . 1773 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ The house mother's business in the servants' kitchen . 1791, p. 176 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).