Quark with linseed oil

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Quark with linseed oil and jacket potatoes

Quark with linseed oil is a way of preparing quark in different combinations with linseed oil, depending on the recipe .

It is best known as the most savory spicy main dish known traditionally with boiled potatoes as a side dish : Quark with linseed oil and boiled potatoes , even jacket potatoes with cottage cheese and linseed oil , is a traditional dish of the so-called "poor cuisine" in the Lausitz and particularly the Spreewald , is but also known in other parts of Saxony , Brandenburg and Silesia . The use of linseed oil in dishes containing milk, such as here with quark, also serves to preserve the food.

In addition, Quark with linseed oil , then partly sweetened and with other ingredients, both as a breakfast dish and side dishes as well as diet food known.

As main course

Ingredients and variants

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Main ingredient: Quark
(here as low-fat quark )
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Ingredient: linseed oil


The main ingredient is quark (white cheese) or quark, nowadays often in the form of low-fat quark, or layered cheese with a slightly more sophisticated taste , which is mixed with milk and seasoned and refined with salt , pepper , caraway seeds and chopped parsley . Cold-pressed linseed oil (freshly pressed if possible) is served or added before serving, which in the past was usually mixed in immediately and poured over it. Due to the oil layer on the quark food, it does not turn sour as quickly as other dairy dishes ; a fact that was previously used intensively in the “simple kitchen” in summer.

Part of the curd is today touched not only with milk, but it is also something sour cream or sour cream added. Instead of parsley, chopped chives are often added to the quark or served separately, especially in Lusatia. A well-known recipe variation is the addition of finely chopped onions or shallots , which are often placed in a depression in the prepared quark and then served with linseed oil on top.

Quark with linseed oil , coming from Lusatia, was also introduced as a simple dish in Berlin , whereby in the Berlin kitchen often only quark is mixed with linseed oil and a pinch of salt and therefore does not correspond to the original variant.

Side dishes

Traditional side dish when used as a main course: freshly boiled jacket potatoes

Quark with linseed oil is traditionally served together with jacket potatoes. The quark has either refrigerator or room temperature , depending on your preference . Often to be Quark with linseed oil and boiled potatoes served, often in the gastronomy and especially those guest houses, contact the day trip tourism. Pickled cucumbers , peppers or tomatoes cut into slices or strips are served as a garnish , especially in gastronomy .

Part is Quark with linseed oil as a spread used together with dark, like "freshly baked" bread served.

Other variants

To jacket potatoes with cottage cheese and linseed oil Erzgebirge as an energy-packed alternative - some will miners  - liverwurst and sometimes even black pudding and / or butter served; sometimes fried herring is served with it. In Berlin, marinated herring is known as a supplement. Part of the curd is slightly more extensive adding also different, chopped herbs as herb quark dressed and served with linseed oil and boiled potatoes.

  • Variants of jacket potatoes with quark and linseed oil

  • The traditional "poor people's meal" in the basic version: Quark and linseed oil on mashed jacket potatoes

  • Ore Mountains variant : Quark with linseed oil, butter, blood and liver sausage, onions, boiled potatoes

  • Berlin variant : Quark with linseed oil (here as herbal quark), marinated herring, jacket potatoes

As a breakfast dish and intermediate dish

According to the usual basic recipe for a quark and linseed oil dish , milk and linseed oil are first intensively mixed together. Then the quark is added and stirred until no traces of oil are visible. The resulting cream is sweetened or savory seasoned depending on your taste. The sweetened variant is often served on finely chopped fruit or mixed with various nuts , seeds or dried berries .

As a diet food

The court Quark with linseed oil and similar recipe variations in the German pharmacist and chemist Johanna Budwig developed (1908-2003) oil-protein diet recommended and are part of the so-called Budwig diet . In Budwig's opinion, linseed oil or cold-pressed linseed oil - which contains many unsaturated fatty acids , in particular α-linolenic acid - must be part of the diet because it is "essential" and humans cannot produce it themselves. According to Budwig, quark, like cottage cheese, is important because it contains many sulfur-containing amino acids , which make fatty acids more soluble and absorbable. Corresponding recipes are often propagated in alternative medicine circles and sometimes more widely used and used as a cancer diet , which, however , is not recognized in modern evidence-based medicine .

Nutritional physiology

From a scientific and nutritional point of view it is a very healthy dish. Lean quark has only a low content of animal fats (usually below 0.5%) and contains high quality protein (more than 10 g per 100 g). Linseed oil is considered a nutritionally valuable oil because it has a very high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (e.g. α-linolenic acid ). The human body cannot produce these so-called “essential” fatty acids itself and they must therefore be supplied from outside (they are also the reason why linseed oil goes bad relatively quickly in the air). As a herbal product, it does not contain cholesterol either . The content of less valuable, non-essential “saturated” fats is correspondingly lower.

The potatoes, which are often given as a side dish, are considered a recommended source of carbohydrates, as the sugar molecules in them are bound in high-molecular-weight form as starch and are only released slowly during digestion, so that there are no undesirable blood sugar spikes such as when consuming free sugar. Potatoes are also an important source of fiber .

Winged words

The simple, but at the same time nutritious and nutritionally valuable dish quark with linseed oil (and jacket potatoes ) is said to have contributed to the "proverbial health of the Spreewalds " and the Lusatians . Regional idioms such as “linseed oil and quark make the Lusatian strong!” Are sometimes used in the sense of a mocking verse . Probably the best known is borrowed from the beginning of a poem in Niederlausitzer dialect published in 1930 :

“What makes the Lusatian strong?
Jacket potatoes, leash and quark. "

- Otto Lukas : from his poem Lausitzer Kost

Others

In August 2017, the two-day Quark & ​​Linseed Oil Festival named after the dish took place in the spa and legend park of Burg im Spreewald for the first time .

literature

  • Edeltraud Wiegand (editor); Interforum e. V. (Ed.): The good potato cookbook. From Lausitz and the Spreewald. Stories, tips and recipes. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2006, ISBN 3-937899-33-2 .
  • Christel Lehmann-Enders: Kneedel, linseed oil & quark. A little digression through the Spreewald kitchen. 5th edition. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2009, ISBN 978-3-929600-10-0 , p. 28 ff. (Note: Kneedel stands for “potatoes” in Spreewald or Niederlausitzer dialect ).

Web links

Commons : Quark with linseed oil  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eastern Switzerland on Sunday, November 19, 2017 page 21: Camelina is not flax. In Lausitz and Spreewald, quark with flax oil and jacket potatoes is the traditional dish.
  2. ↑ Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung "from June 4, 2017, page 65: Cycling in the Spreewald, when you hear the name Spreewald, you think of quark with linseed oil and jacket potatoes ...
  3. ↑ a b c Bernd Wurlitzer: Brandenburg. Potsdam, Havelland, Spreewald. Revised edition. ADAC-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89905-322-2 , p. 134 (in: “Some specialties”: books.google.de excerpt).
  4. ↑ See info page on jacket potatoes with quark and linseed oil . On the private website Spreewald-Info.de ; accessed on December 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Christine Berger: Berlin. Travel with insider tips (=  Marco Polo guide ). 20th edition. MairDumont, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-8297-2417-3 , p. 72 (in: “Specialties”: excerpt from Google Books ).
  6. ↑ See: Rudolf Lehmann : The Lower Lusatia in the days of Classicism, Romanticism and Biedermeier (=  Central German Research , Volume 3). Böhlau, Cologne 1958, DNB 452752086 , p. 78 ( books.google.de excerpt).
  7. ↑ According to the relevant food offerings from catering establishments in regions in which the dish quark with linseed oil is known or offered; including traditional inns such as u. B. the Wotschofska on the Spreewald island of the same name in Brandenburg or the brewery Braun Mühle (with the "Dörnthaler Ölmühle") in Olbernhau - Dörnthal in the Erzgebirge in Saxony ; according to various website requests dated December 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ See linseed oil and quark in a different way >>  Quark on bread . On the private website Spreewald-Info.de ; Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b According to the relevant recipe recommendations from manufacturers of commercially available linseed oil or organic linseed oil ; according to various website requests from December 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ Holger Stromberg : Quark with linseed oil. Recipe suggestion in: Ders .: Eat well. The principle of the food chain - explained simply and pragmatically by the chef of the German national soccer team. Systemed Verlag, Lünen 2013, ISBN 978-3-942772-28-0 , p. 63 (the recipe quark with linseed oil is online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. freely available on the website of the magazine Bioküche - The magazine for sustainable cooking from April 5, 2014; accessed on December 21, 2014). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-biokueche.de
  11. ↑ Luc Geeraert: Budwig diet . CAM-Cancer Consortium, May 8, 2012; accessed on December 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ NN: Spreewald feeling: paddle, slide, sniff nature. In: Reisemagazin Merian , 50th year, 1997, ZDB -ID 1185340-2 , p. 17.
  13. ↑ See Lausitzer Leinöl ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On the private website Lausitz-Klick.de ; accessed on December 13, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akvision.de
  14. ↑ Otto Lukas : Dear Lusatia. No different. Self-published, Berlin 1930, DNB 576289639 , p. 54.
  15. ↑ Rüdiger Hofmann: Lusatian favorite dish becomes a festival magnet in Burg. Lausitzer Rundschau , August 19, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 .