Punschkrapfen
The Punschkrapfen (in the diminutive also Punschkrapferl ) is an Austrian dessert.
properties
It is a cube (rarely also a cylinder) made of biscuit dough , which is filled with a mass of jam , rum or punch and chocolate and coated with a pink glaze (so-called punch glaze , available as such in Austria). Punschkrapferln are sometimes used as leftovers from sponge cake products that have become stale, whereby the domestic rum effectively covers up any old taste . According to original recipes, punch donuts contain rum or punch. Nowadays, the punch donuts available in grocery stores are often made with a rum or punch flavor instead of alcohol. Punch donuts are similar to the French Petit Four biscuits .
Cultural meaning
The punch donut has been used as a political metaphor since the 1970s because of its distinctive colors. In Carinthia the mentality of the population was mocked, which in 1944 had the highest proportion of NSDAP members of all Austrian federal states, but in the 1970s the majority voted for social democrats. The red shell and brown filling of the punch donut was metaphorically transferred to the person: red on the outside ( political color of social democracy), brown on the inside (color of National Socialism). The depth psychologist Erwin Ringel quoted a joke in a 1985 lecture on the "Carinthian soul": "What is Carinthia? Answer: A punch mug, pink on the outside, brown on the inside and always under alcohol." The name extended to social democratic politicians with a Nazi past. Thomas Bernhard was later wrongly quoted with a similar joke: “The mentality of the Austrians is like a punch donut: red on the outside, brown on the inside and always a bit drunk.” This ascription could not be proven. The writer Robert Menasse dedicates himself to the Punschkrapfen as a political symbol in his collection of essays Das war Österreich (2005), on the cover of which a bitten punchkrapfen is depicted. In her novel The Liquid Land 2019, the writer Raphaela Edelbauer describes a punch donut on which the face of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is depicted.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where there is alcohol everywhere! on alcohol in food accessed on November 26, 2010
- ↑ A unique gift idea: Original Wiener Punschkrapfen ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2010
- ↑ Austria's Reds Check for Brown Spots (English) at Deutsche Welle dw.de
- ↑ Erwin Ringel: "Die Kärntner Seele" (after a lecture, given on September 15, 1985 in Keutschach, supplemented during 1986 and 1988), in: ER: "Die Kärntner Seele: with representations from literature and fine arts", edited by Franz Witzeling with contributions by Josef Strutz and Arnulf Rohsmann, Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt / Vienna: 1988, p. 12
- ↑ Armand Feka: One Punschkrapfen too much , Der Standard , February 28, 2011
- ↑ Quotation research: "The mentality of the Austrians is like a punch donut: red on the outside, brown on the inside and always a little drunk." Thomas Bernhard (allegedly). In: Quotation Research. April 24, 2018, accessed January 11, 2019 .
