Crooked leg
Knickebein is a cocktail made from liqueur and a raw egg yolk or from brandy and egg liqueur . Knickebein is also called a certain type of semi-liquid filling of pralines . A Knickebein filling consists of half egg liqueur and half fruit juice liqueur fondant cream .
etymology
Various variants are known to explain the term "knee leg". On the one hand, the name should refer to a student from Jena who was called Knickebein . Another variant is derived from the supposed effect: after enjoying the drink, the legs bend away. In a student song , the innkeeper and freedom fighter Andreas Hofer is associated with the drink. It is a joking rewrite of an older song text about Andreas Hofer by Max von Schenkendorf, the connection between the folk hero and Knickebein seems deliberately ridiculous.
When the Sandwirt from Passeier
Innsbruck took by storm,
he had a dozen eggs
and a dozen schnapps
made it into a mixture,
drank it out and buckled,
and since then this mixture has been called
Knickebein all over Germany
literature
- FJ Pouch: The Modern Beverage . P. 233. ISBN 3839112524
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rudolf Köster: Proper names in the German vocabulary: a lexicon . Page 92f.
- ↑ Ota Mikolasek, Marianne Müller, Helmut Winter, Günter Rachfahl: The great lexicon of the hotel and catering trade . P. 315.
- ^ Günter Klein: Textsammlung Lebensmittelrecht . 4700, 7.
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition. Vol. 11. Leipzig, 1905. P. 171 [1]
- ↑ General German Kommersbuch