Stucco (pastries)

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Stuck is a ball-shaped rye biscuit with currants and “ingredients reminiscent of Christmas” such as cloves and cinnamon . It is manufactured and sold exclusively in Berchtesgadener Land . Although the term stucco corresponds to the High German piece , it means both the stucco and the stucco in the region .

Stucco is usually offered lined up in two rows of three or in blocks of six, of which a smaller number can be replaced if required. The pastries, which are part of the “ Gebildbroten” , can be eaten without any other side dishes, but are sometimes cut up like a bread roll and coated with butter .

Originally only available from November 1st ( All Saints 'Day ) to St. Nicholas ' Day on December 6th, sales now begin at the end of August and beginning of September from the first day of school after the summer holidays.

history

In the times when the prince provosts ruled the Berchtesgadener Land, the stucco was also used as a begging for All Souls' Day (November 2nd). At first there was actually talk of a “piece” of a cake like the yeast pastry “Seelenzopf”, which is also known in the Bavarian Oberland. Poor, mostly “older people”, begged for “a Stuck” and “prayed loudly”. According to folklorist Rudolf Kriss , “as early as 1731 the pastor of Schellenberg complained that people were missing the service because of the stucco collection.” “After everything is a little different in Berchtesgaden,” the farmers then held a stucco board instead of the yeast plait At that time two lines of four were added - presumably because it was easier for the beggars to divide.

Even today at Allerseelen (according to another source at Allerheiligen), “tradition-conscious Berchtesgadener” baptism and company sponsors give their entrusted children in the Berchtesgadener Land a so-called “stuck money”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berchtesgadener Stuck , online at berchtesgadener-land.com
  2. ↑ Manfred Fischer: My home is the reason that I became a baker ; Interview in the Allgemeine Bäckerzeitung with Herbert Zechmeister about his bakery at Königssee in Berchtesgadener Land, online at abzonline.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e Stephan Kastner: The Stuck - A pastry from Berchtesgaden , online at berchtesgadeninfo.de
  4. ↑ It's back - Der Berchtesgadener Stuck , online at bgland24.de
  5. ↑ Iris Melcher: The sweet round hidden in a rectangle in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , message from September 15, 2005