Bismarck herring

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Bismarck herring with fried potatoes and fried egg
Bismarck herring in a bun
Swedish bismarck herring with sour cream , potatoes and egg

As Bismarck herring (in Austria Russians , in East Germany also Delikateßhering ) are herring referred to in an acidic marinade of vinegar , cooking oil , onions , mustard grains and bay leaves are inserted. These herring rags are also used for roll pugs . The Bismarck herring is traditionally eaten with fried potatoes and as a bread or roll topping ( Bismarck rolls ).

Manufacturing

As Sauer lobes is referred to fresh eingesäuerte herring, that recessed and boneless herring, seasoned in a Reifebad or unseasoned using 14% salt and 7% acetic acid (German classic formulation). The result is a raw material for the delicatessen industry to manufacture various herring products. The sour lobes are only suitable for consumption after a while in a so-called refining bath . In Scandinavia , the sour rag is traditionally made using a lightly pre-salted herring rag in a vinegar bath. This leads to a firmer end product and a fresher appearance, for example herring bites in glasses.

In the 19th century, the Bismarck herring was a new way of preserving fish with a long shelf life and still tasty . It is also important at this time, the resulting rail network , which made it possible, from the North and Baltic Sea coast in wooden barrels of durability because of pickled fish into inland transport. Another advantage of using vinegar preservation is that small bones dissolve, making it easier to eat.

Origin of the name

The Stralsund fishmonger Rasmus presented George W. Bush with a barrel with Bismarck herring made according to the original recipe during his visit to Stralsund in July 2006.

There are various stories about how the Bismarck herring got its name, which are discussed controversially for marketing reasons:

  • The name Bismarck herring goes back to the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), who is said to have liked this type of herring preparation very much. He is reported to have said: "If herring were as expensive as caviar , people would appreciate it far more."
  • Roger Rössing has a similar explanation . Bismarck is supposed to have said: "If the herring were as expensive as the lobster, it would certainly be considered a delicacy in the highest circles"
  • According to other information, in 1864 it was a landlord from Flensburg who served Bismarck his herring during a visit to the front during the German-Danish war and because he was very satisfied with his herring preparation, the fish has since been on his menu as Bismarck herring.
  • According to another story, the Stralsund fish merchant Johann Wiechmann is said to have sent the Chancellor a keg of herring in 1871, whereupon Bismarck gave him the privilege in writing to market the pickled herring fillets as Bismarck herring in future. The said letter of evidence from Bismarck was destroyed by the bombing raid on Stralsund on October 6, 1944 .
  • Ernst Schweninger was a dermatology professor and the personal physician of Otto von Bismarck, who was ailing until he was prescribed a herring diet made from the famous Bismarck herring in the 1880s, which allowed the Chancellor to recover completely. This judged: Schweninger was the first doctor to have treated him, he had always treated the others.

The cultural historian and journalist Petra Foede thinks in How Bismarck got hold of the herring · Culinary Legends that probably none of these anecdotes are true; rather, it would have been customary at the time in question to name everything possible after the Reich Chancellor ( Bismarck towers , Bismarck monuments , ships , etc.), including various courts. According to Foede, only the herring dish has survived and is still called that today.

As in the GDR references to the former German Chancellor politically were not wanted in was East German cuisine , the term Delikateßhering common.

literature

  • Petra Foede: How Bismarck got hold of the herring. Culinary legends. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5268-0

Web links

Wiktionary: Bismarck herring  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Bismarck Herring  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Morgenstern, Anne Kirchmann: Reise Know-How InselTrip Rügen and Hiddensee with Stralsund . 2006, p. 22
  2. ↑ Joachim Heimansberg: Brockhaus! What is not in the dictionary. Curious and clever from all fields of knowledge . Brockhaus, ISBN 3-7653-1551-6 , pp. 255 f.
  3. ↑ Roger Rössing: How the herring got Bismarck's name - Unknown stories on familiar terms , Regionalia-Verlag 2013, ISBN 9783955401030 , page 107
  4. ↑ How Prince Bismarck got his herring . Welt Online , November 3, 2012 and Bismarck herring . Planet Wissen , March 21, 2017; each accessed on July 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Lisa Böse, b. Wiechmann (great-granddaughter): About the invention of the Bismarck herring. In: Internet presence of the fishmonger H. Rasmus, Stralsund. February 2001, accessed January 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ How Prince Bismarck got his herring . Welt Online , November 3, 2012; Retrieved on: July 9, 2017
  7. ↑ Gerhard Danzer: Who are we? In search of the human formula: anthropology for the 21st century - medical professionals, philosophers and their theories, ideas and concepts . ISBN 3-642-16992-9 , p. 324.
  8. ↑ Petra Foede: How Bismarck got hold of the herring. Culinary legends. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5268-0