Mus
Mus (from Middle High German muos ) is a porridge or puree (French: Purée ) made from cooked fruit , vegetables , and in some areas also from other foods.
Fruit purée
- Applesauce is served with semolina porridge , potato fritters , pancakes or alpine macaroons , for example . Alone, possibly with cream , it serves as a dessert . In Cologne's cuisine , applesauce is part of the dish Himmel un Ääd with potato puree , onions and seared black pudding.
- Plum jam is filled in pancakes , in various donuts or in Buchteln ( Powidl ) .
Another muse
- In Swabian, mush also means porridge or puree made from legumes , potatoes or other things.
- In Switzerland, mues also refers to soaked oat flakes (Habermues) or raw grated fruit. Together with other ingredients it makes the muesli ( muesli in Switzerland).
- In Tirolisch - Salzburg area is muass in lard branded cereal flour, a nutritious food that traditionally loggers during their long stays in felling areas was prepared as the ingredients in winter does not spoil.
- In parts of the Lower Rhine (around Rees and Emmerich am Rhein ) Mus is a name for kale . It is served as "Mus mit Mett" together with Mettwurst .
In Ulm , adulterers who were caught had to eat oat butter together in public; this punishment was called "muses".
Older meanings
In the past, mus was also a synonym for all cooked food and was often not differentiated from porridge or soup in everyday language . It was also a regional name for vegetables , so that in some regions the vegetable garden was also referred to as "Musgarten".
So it says in the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm : “(...) it is, after its use since the earliest comparable times, to assume that we have to do with mus and porridge with two expressions of a more advanced Germanic art of cooking, both of which are initially Aimed at a meal that is difficult to produce, the latter made from flour, the former from pips and fruit, as an accompaniment to meat and bread. Here, mus is the more varied food, can be represented from many different angles, and that is how it can be understood if it has the general meaning of food and food ”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mus . In: Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia . Volume 98. Berlin 1805, p. 204 f.
- ↑ Mus, n. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).