Nun's Puffs
Nonnenfürzle (also: Nonnenfürzchen ) describes a lard pastry from southern Germany, it is mainly known in Swabia and the Allgäu .
Nonnenfürzle are traditionally eaten at Carnival , they are made from incendiary material : small balls are cut with two teaspoons and baked in hot fat. While it is still hot, the pastry is turned in sugar.
In the Moselle-Franconian- speaking area, the pastry, which is also popular there especially on Carnival, is called "Mäusjer" ("Mäuschen"). The Leiendecker Bloas set a musical monument to this with "Es Faosenaocht".
Original recipe and name origin
At the moment it is generally assumed that the name of the baked Nonnenfürzle is derived from fart (probably because of the airy choux pastry).
Linguists assume different aspects both in the origin of the name and in the recipe of the Nonnenfürzle. The pastries were already in Middle High German spelling nunnen-vürzelîn and were made from gingerbread dough . Even Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm describe in their dictionary the Nonnenfürzlein as "a pastry in nuns monasteries common pfeffernuszartiges" ( Latin . Globules dulciarii piperati ) and have the word origin from the French farce out (filling).
The “New Alamodisches Koch-Büchlein” from 1689 describes in the recipe “How to make Nonnen-Fürtzel” how to make one with pepper, cinnamon, ginger etc. A spiced marzipan filling can be formed into balls, packed in pieces of dough and then baked in a pan. The cover is made into a nun's veil during this production .
Balthasar Staindl's “klainen Schwebischen Küchlen” from the year 1547 are made from choux pastry , but do not have a name in his cookbook “ Ain artificial and useful cookbook ”.
history
The historian Hartmann Joseph Zeibig found one of the earliest written mentions of "nunnenfoerzlein" in the documents of the Klosterneuburg Abbey near Vienna, where kitchen office bills from the 14th century have been preserved.
Baked nuns' furs have been known throughout the German-speaking area for centuries, but are ascribed to Swabian culinary art. Even Martin Luther is said to have appreciated the "Kräpffel-Werck Nuns Fürtzel" because
"He was a peculiar lover and connoisseur of such delicacies, and very often led them in his prehistoric Christ-mouth."
The term nun fool was very common and also appeared in piquant writings of the 18th century, where the life of nuns was reviled as frivolous.
Web links
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Volksfreund: Health on Carnival: This is how people get through the 5th season of the year. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ^ Leiendecker Bloas: Discography. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ^ Matthias Lexer: Middle High German Concise Dictionary. In: Dictionary network. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Nonnenfürzlein. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . 16 volumes in 32 sub-volumes, 1854–1960. S. Hirzel, Leipzig ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ SLUB Dresden: New Alamo Dische cooking Booklet. P. 214 , accessed December 28, 2017 .
- ^ Yearbooks of Literature . Gerold, 1824 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2017]).
- ↑ Theodor Heinsius: Popular dictionary of the German language: with designation of pronunciation and emphasis for the business and reading world. L-R . Hahn, 1820 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Balthasar Staindl: Ain artificial and useful cookbook . Otmar, 1547, p. 33 ( google.de ).
- ^ Hartmann Joseph Zeibig: Document book of Klosterneuburg Monastery: until the end of the fourteenth century. P. 48–49 , accessed on December 15, 2018 : "Mawchlein from semel - flat - nunnenfoerzlein - pachen chuchen with weinper (Gugelhupf?)"
- ^ A b Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander: Vol. Teachers to Satte (der) . FA Brockhaus, 1873 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
- ↑ Michael Kuen: Lucifer Wittenbergensis, or the morning star of Wittenberg: That is: Complete life course Catharinae von Bore, the avoided wife D. Martini Lutheri, mostly from the books Lutheri, from his juicy table chunks, witty (scilicet) Sending letters, and other rare documents, in which all her pseudo virtues, fictional great deeds, false appearances and wretched miracles, together with the whole process of canonization, such as those carried out by her husband while she was still alive been told widely . Singer, 1749 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Modest Hahn: Innocent nun chapter held in the Zankershausen monastery . Bey the publisher, 1777, p. 27 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Anton Schrautzer: Pathetic nuns letters about their fate itziges in Bohemia . 1782 ( google.de ).