Cheese hedgehog
As cheese hedgehog is hedgehog -shaped arrangement of cheese skewers as a starter or snack , respectively. Here, the roughly diced cheese is put on small skewers or toothpicks together with grapes or other fruits , which are then stuck onto a large, mostly halved fruit (e.g. orange , honeydew melon , grapefruit or half a head of cabbage ) as a hedgehog spike .
Cheese urchins were a popular part of cold buffets from the 1950s to 1970s .
A related dish is the Mettigel .
literature
- Peter Peter : Cultural history of German cuisine. Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57224-1 , p. 182.
Web links
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