Coffee bowl
In Leipzig and the surrounding area, a coffee bowl is the name given to a collection of various confectionery products on a plate. It is typical that each species is available in several small specimens, so that one can try as many varieties as possible when eating.
description
There is no rule for the contents of a coffee bowl. The pastry shops mostly have their own compositions. Typical parts of a coffee bowl are petit fours , pig's , Sahneeclairs , choux pastry cake , often in the form of small swans, cream rolls, fruit tart, little Leipziger Lerche , Schillerlocken and cream sandwiches. The size of the coffee bowl depends on the customer's request, whereby the offer can be staggered according to the number of pieces, price or number of people.
A special feature is the erotic coffee bowl in a pastry shop in the west of Leipzig, which contains biscuits in erotic-related shapes.
history
First advertisement with "Coffee Bowl" (1906)
Coffee bowl advertising brand from 1928
The origin of the coffee bowl is in the dark. Because of the petits fours on the coffee bowls, people sometimes look to France or Napoleon . With him in Leipzig in 1813 they would not have known which sweets he preferred and therefore offered him a selection. That could explain the variety on the coffee bowls, but not their name.
It appeared for the first time in print in 1906 in an advertisement by the Leipzig confectioner Ernst Hartmann. In his book Practical Confectionery Art , published in 1913, the Dresden confectioner, writer and publisher Johannes Martin Erich Weber described a “colorful bowl” made of thirteen components.
The designation coffee bowl remained limited to Leipzig and the surrounding area, so that the designation is still unknown in other areas, even if the same product is offered, which is then called colorful plate or something similar. And if a confectioner sells coffee bowls in other areas of Saxony, then it is very likely that he has completed an apprenticeship with a Leipzig confectioner. In Leipzig currently more than ten pastry shops and bakery chains offer coffee bowls, mostly after pre-order.
Quote
“The city of Leipzig has no claws, it tries to bribe with mild Saxon charm. (Do you know the Leipzig or Saxon coffee bowl?) "
literature
- Bert Hähne: Leipzig coffee bowl . In: Leipziger Blätter , issue 73, autumn 2018, pp. 70–72
Web links
- Leipzig specialties, part 2. In: Leipzig insider tip. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erotic coffee bowl. In: Insider tip Leipzig. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Leipziger Blätter , p. 71
- ↑ JM Erich Weber: Practical confectionery art "Pra-Ko-Ku"., The great confectionery framework of the world . Dresden 1913, with a picture of the colored bowl
- ↑ Leipziger Blätter , p. 72
- ^ Christoph Hein: News about Leipzig from Christoph Hein. In: Leipzig reading. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .