Pillkaller

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Pillkaller

Pillkaller Machandel or just Pillkaller is a well-known drink from the former province of East Prussia . The name comes from the East Prussian town of Pillkallen . The drink was once made in Tapiau, now in Ahausen as Pillkaller Edel- Machandel and is still served as an aperitif in East Prussian cuisine .

Ingredients: 4 cl Doppelkorn or Machandel schnapps (e.g. Steinhäger or gin ), liver sausage, mustard.

There are different types of consumption, e.g. B .: Eat a slice of spicy liver sausage topped with mustard and immediately "wash it down" with the double grain. Or put the liver sausage with mustard in the glass and pour the spirit over it. Then drink the drink in one sip and eat the liver sausage at the same time.

East Prussian way of life

The Pillkallers were known to be rowdy:

  • “ Getting unbeaten from Pillkallen is a godsend ”.

and as a drinking festival:

  • “Man drinks, horse drinks. In Pillkallen it's the other way around. "

The drink was also immortalized in many sayings, poems and sentences:

  • A slice of liver sausage, mustard as required, is placed on a glass full of schnapps and then you get spicy.
  • Because you see the liver sausage and you smell the smoke, and you can taste the marjoram and the pepper too.
  • The machandel shines in the glass, is made of power and grain, and with the third one you are, cheers, way ahead.
  • After the fifth, the world is no longer bad and bad, everything looks as festive as in paradise.
  • But at the twelfth one longs for the bed frame and one asks the woman: "Where are you from, Marjell?"

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