Poppy seed games
Mohnpielen (in Silesia as poppy dumplings known in the Silesian dialect Mohkließla , poppy Kließa or Mokließa , Polish makowki [ makufki ]) is a dish from the German cuisine , including the Silesian cuisine .
preparation
To prepare the poppy seeds, poppy seeds are washed and scalded. Then it is ground and mixed with cold milk. White bread or sweet rolls , such as cake or milk rolls , are then cut into cubes and soaked with milk. Then both masses are blended and mixed with typical Christmas ingredients such as raisins, currants and almonds. Depending on the taste, the peel is then sweetened with sugar, honey or syrup .
In another variant, ground poppy seeds are swollen in hot milk, flavored with sugar and bitter almond and then mixed with the other ingredients. The rolls are soaked with sugar syrup and then alternately filled with the poppy seed mixture in a bowl.
A typical sideboard is in a glass bowl, freshly sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
Mákos Guba
There is a similar dish in Hungarian cuisine as Mákos Guba . During preparation, slices of kifli ( croissants ) are soaked in milk, then sprinkled with brewed poppy seeds and powdered sugar. Orange, apricot jam or honey is added to this. Sometimes vanilla sauce is served with the Guba.
regional customs
The poppy seed games were a typical dish, especially on Christmas Eve , also on New Year's Eve . Older literature sources describe the reason why a part always remains in the bowl. The eating of grain-rich food goes back to old Germanic pre-Christian custom in the Rauhnächten , with the remainder depending on the German area for Frau Holde, who is also called Goden, Frau Perchta, etc.
The Transylvanian Saxons in today's Romania also practice the custom of withholding a part for Ms. Holde.
reception
The poppy seed games find literary mention in Theodor Fontane's novel Before the Storm or in Julius Stinde's Buchholz family , where the poppy seed games are served as the first course of New Year's Eve dinner. Theobald Rehbaum describes it in his memoirs as the Berlin national dish .
literature
- Mathilde Ehrhardt: Large illustrated cookbook. Berlin 1904.
- Erhard Gorys: The new kitchen dictionary. Munich 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schläsinger: Mohnkließla. From: Schlesischer Bergland-Kalender, 1936.
- ^ Wilhelm Schwartz: Today's popular belief and old paganism with reference to Northern Germany, especially the Mark Brandenburg and Mecklenburg. 2nd edition, published by Wilhelm Hertz, Berlin 1862, p. 92.
- ↑ Meeting reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Volume 30, Vienna 1859, p. 275.
- ^ Theodor Fontane: Before the storm. Novel from the winter of 1812 on 13. Chapter 4: With Mrs. Hulen. 1878.
- ↑ Julius Stinde: The Buchholz family. Chapter 7: At the New Year's Eve punch. .
- ^ Theobald Rehbaum: Erlebtes und Erstrebtes , Berlin 1914.