Black mush

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Black porridge with vanilla sauce and raspberries

The black porridge , also called musbrei , Habermus , Brennt's Mus (burned mus), is a traditional dish typical of the Swabian Alb , the main component of which is musmehl . For the preparation, the puree flour is stirred into boiling, salted water, boiled with milk to a thick pulp and then poured over with onions roasted in lard. Contrary to its name, the finished porridge doesn't look black, but brown.

In the Swabian Alb, black porridge was considered the most important food for the rural population for centuries, because it is easy to prepare and at the same time as nutritious as it is filling. In the Swabian Dictionary by Hermann Fischer it is reported how the black pulp saved the poorer population in the Swabian Alb from starvation as early as 1540.

Nowadays black porridge is rarely prepared, but it is attracting new attention from a historical, nutritional and culinary point of view. For example, the organization Slow Food has included the black porridge - as well as the associated musm flour - as a “typical regional food that has almost been forgotten” in their Ark of Taste .

The black porridge is clearly differentiated from the Swabian distilled soup . In the simplest version, this is cooked from flour with water or milk and seasoned with salt or sugar. Depending on the regional variant, bread cubes are sometimes also crumbled in as an insert.

Also known as black porridge is a thick soup made from dry bread, which is soaked and cooked with spices such as pepper, salt, nutmeg and vinegar until a fine mass is formed. The blood from the slaughter is then added to this. Historically, this black porridge is a traditional side dish at the slaughter festival .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recipe for example from the Luz mill
  2. ↑ Musmehl in the slow food ark
  3. ↑ slaughter plate with "black porridge". In: Marc Schüler, Echo Newspapers GmbH, Darmstadt. November 25, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Black porridge and fresh liver sausages. In: fnp.de, Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. October 13, 2015, accessed March 23, 2020 .