Autumn milk soup

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The autumn milk soup or sour soup is often enjoyed with stale bread, so-called cutlets

The Herbstmilchsuppe (also Hirgstmillisuppn or Herbstsuppe ) is a soup of Bavarian cuisine made from curdled milk .

Manufacturing

The autumn milk soup is an old farmer's dish. In times when there were no cooling options, the fresh milk was collected in vats at the beginning of autumn as so-called "autumn milk" ( Hirgstmilli ) and stored in the cellar. The milk turned sour, took on a thick consistency and could therefore be kept over the winter. The top fermented layer was temporarily removed and replaced with fresh or whipped milk, which was then stirred in again. The farmer women also added grapes to promote fermentation and to soften the sour taste.

The solidified milk was mixed with flour, poured into boiling water and salted. Whole milk , Scotch or buttermilk was used less often instead of sour milk . Those who could afford it refined the soup with cream . The soup was eaten hot or cold for breakfast and dinner. Usually potatoes or bread were added.

history

An early recipe for the preparation of the autumn milk can be found in the little cookbook of good food in the Mühldorf house and pharmacopoeia , which was written from around 1445 to 1470 in the Bavarian Inn Valley . Christoph Wirsung describes further instructions in his Artzney book from 1568. An edition of the multi-volume work Oeconomia ruralis et domestica by Johannes Coler from 1645 explains how to make and prepare autumn milk.

A pamphlet explaining agriculture and housekeeping from 1785 describes that farmers ate either sweet or sour milk soup for breakfast . Both variants were mixed with water and bread was served as a soup . In the Bavarian Forest around 1800, soup was eaten as a dinner that was enriched with potatoes . In contrast to this, the Oberamt Aalen describes in its description from 1854 that sour milk with earth pears is only eaten in the afternoon, while sweet milk is served in the evening. In addition, the dish is said to be a very common dish for the poor.

Soup was still common in the 20th century. For example, the Lower Bavarian farmer and author Anna Wimschneider chose the dish as a book title for her autobiography “ Autumn Milk - Life Memories of a Farmer's Wife ” and describes the preparation in the 1940s.

Related soups

A similar soup in Bavaria as sour soup or sauerne Suppn and in the Austrian cuisine as Stosuppe referred. The taste is milder with this variant, as the soup is made from freshly crumbled milk. The Austrian Schottsuppe , Schottensuppe , Schodsuppe , Kassuppen or goat soup is made from the Scotch or the curd of boiled buttermilk that was left over from the butter production .

literature

  • Erna Horn : The Old Bavarian Kitchen Year. Prestel publishing house, Passau 1974, ISBN 3-7913-0074-1 .
  • E. Rath: From eating and drinking. In: Adolf Mais (Hrsg.): Austrian folklore for everyone. Verlag Petricek et al., Vienna 1952, pp. 205–228.
  • Leopold Schmidt : Folk food in Austria. A folklore overview. In: New order. Monthly for social issues. 16, 1, 1947, ZDB -ID 549199-x , pp. 17-27.
  • Günter Wiegelmann : Everyday and festival dishes. Change and present position. Verlag Elwert, Marburg 1967 ( Atlas der Deutschen Volkskunde. NF supplement 1), (At the same time: Habil.-Schr., Univ. Bonn).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthilde Danner: Old recipes from the Bavarian Inn Valley . In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 12 , 1970, pp. 118–128. Digitized Cod. 793 of the Donaueschingen Court Library , Bl. 27v – 28v
  2. ↑ Ute Obhof: The 'Mühldorf House and Pharmacopoeia' from the 15th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports 23, 2004, pp. 159–168.
  3. ↑ Christoph Wirsung: Das Artzney Buch , 1568 , p. 640
  4. ^ Johannes Coler: Oeconomia ruralis et domestica , 1645 , p. 73
  5. ↑ Christian Baumann: The Gordian knot, dissolved by Joseph II the Great Oder: The rights of the general best established are as appropriate as desirable to humanity and the state body of Germany because they determine the general happiness of Germany , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1785, p 313
  6. ^ Wiegelmann, 1967, p. 56
  7. ↑ Wikisource: Description of the Oberamt Aalen
  8. ↑ Anna Wimschneider: Autumn milk - memoirs of a farmer 37th edition. Verlag Piper, Munich 2010, p. 115, ISBN 978-3-492-20740-9 .
  9. ↑ Walther Zeitler : Bayerwald portraits: of singers, pig tailors, clapboard makers, snake catchers and other people , 2nd edition, Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2010, ISBN 978-3936511260
  10. ^ Ernst Burgstaller , Adolf Helbok , Richard Wolfram: Österreichischer Volkskundeatlas , Commentary , Volume 6, Commission for the Folklore Atlas in Austria, Linz 1980, p. 6 ff.