Mush flour

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Mush flour

Musmehl (to “ Mus ” and from Middle High German muosmel “wheat flour, fine flour”) is a gritty, brown wholemeal flour made from oven-roasted grains of spelled or wheat , and occasionally oats or a mixture of these types of grain. It is a cereal product that used to be widespread in southern Germany and Tyrol, but fell into oblivion in the 20th century and was revived by the slow food movement as a typical regional and traditional dish at the beginning of the 21st century and included in the Ark of Taste . Musmehl is still produced by small artisan mills in Baden-Württemberg .

The grain is slow for eight hours at 150 ° C decreasing to 100 temperature kiln-dried and then broken. The kiln browns the grain and develops characteristic roasted aromas. Mush flour serves as the basis for various preparations as baked goods or porridge. In the Allgäu and Odenwald, the sweet Habermus or Häbresmus was cooked from musmehl , while the hearty black porridge was traditionally made in the Swabian Alb , which was the staple meal of the rural population there for centuries.

Musmehl is therefore also mentioned in various historical descriptions of poor feeding. In 1616 Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg certified a foundation according to which “the poor needy” should be given “2 medium musmehl” annually.

Because of its long shelf life, Tyrolean shepherds took musmehl with them to the alpine pastures during their summer stay.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 153 ( muosmel ).
  2. ↑ Unknown mill treasures: Musmehl. In: Association of German Mills e. V., Berlin, mein-mehl.de. July 20, 2018, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Our mushroom flour. In: Getreidemühle Luz GmbH & Co. KG, Münsingen-Buttenhausen, luzmuehle.de. May 25, 2018, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Musmehl on the website of slowfood.de accessed May 28, 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slowfood.de
  5. ↑ Ulrike Oelkuch: The robbery of the French women , Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, December 10, 2005
  6. ^ K. Walchner (Ed.): History of the city of Pfullendorf from 916 to 1811. Konstanz 1825, p. 142; Johann K. Krais: Diary of those events which the imperial city of Biberach ... from the year 1802 to ibs to the year 1815 .. Buchau 1822, p. 266 f; Jakob Friedrich Unold: History of the city of Memmingen. Memmingen 1826, p. 210.
  7. ↑ State Archives Sigmaringen, Gf. and Frh. Schenk von Stauffenbergische Archive, Dep. 38 T 1 no. 1408
  8. ↑ During snowstorms over the Pfunderer Joch , Der Terner, No. 2, 2004, p. 45.