blueberry cake

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Covered blueberry cake
Blueberry pie with sprinkles

A blueberry pie (also blueberry pie ) is a cake , the blueberries contains as a main ingredient.

variants

Are common among other crumb cake and covered versions. The regional varieties include, for example, the Saxon blueberry cake and the Swabian blueberry cake. In the Spessart , blueberry cake is sometimes served with potato soup.

Recipes are documented, among others, by Johanna Katharina Morgenstern-Schulze in 1785 and by Henriette Davidi's Practical Cookbook for ordinary and fine cuisine in 1849.

useful information

Blueberry pie with American blueberries from Maine is “the official state dessert ” of this state.

The encyclopaedist Johann Georg Krünitz rated blueberry cakes at the end of the 18th century in the Economic Encyclopedia , an important source for the Enlightenment and industrialization , as a meal for the family, while he judged blueberry cakes as a subordinate guest dish that was particularly digestible.

See also

Web links

Commons : Blueberry Pie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: blueberry pie  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Blueberry cake on oetker.de, accessed on October 4, 2013.
  2. ^ Saxon blueberry cake on Google Books ; Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  3. Peter Peter: Cultural history of German cuisine. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57224-1 , p. 212 ( digitized version ).
  4. Blueberry Pie on Google Books ; Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  5. 90. Wild berry or blueberry cake. on deutschestextarchiv.de; Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  6. Associated Press: It's the law: Whoopie pie official 'treat' . In: Portland Press Herald , April 21, 2011. 
  7. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz : Blueberry . Blueberry = cake. In: Oeconomische Encyclopädie , or general system of land, house and state economy, in alphabetical order . 2nd Edition. tape 22 . Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1789, OCLC 258026018 , p. 752 ( limited preview in Google Book search).