Tweebak
The tweebak is a round and golden brown baked double-decker yeast roll . This small double roll is the best-known pastry among the Plautdietschen Russian mennonites and has an identity-creating value in this ethnic group. In German, the tweebak are often referred to as Mennonite rusks . However, the German rusk differs greatly from the Plautdietschen tweebak in taste and appearance.
The Russian Mennonite tweebak probably comes from Dutch port cities or from the city of Gdansk , where dried and roasted rusks were used as provisions for ships . The Mennonite immigrants kept this baking tradition for the course of their further migration history.
Spelling and pronunciation
"Tweeback" is often written instead of "Tweebak" - based on the German language. The "a" is long and stretched in Plautdietsch pronunciation, so that the former notation is preferred, as it is e.g. B. is the case in various articles in Plautdietsch FRIND magazine . Since there are also different pronunciation variants in the worldwide Plautdietsche community, some Plautdietsche (mainly from some Orenburg villages or from the Chortitza colony ) also write "Twoibak" or "Twoiback".
Web links
- Epitome of Plautdietsch culture and identity (definition by Heinrich Siemens at Tweeback.com)
- Tweeback tom Bejrafnis (plautdietsche short story by Jack Thiessen)
- Old German language re-emerging as some Mennonites forced to take part in modern world (International Herald Tribune, November 25, 2006)
Individual evidence
- ^ Voth, Norma Jost (1990). Mennonite Foods & Folkways from South Russia, Volumes I. Good Books. Pp. 35-55. ISBN 0-934672-89-X .