Violet ice cream

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Violet ice cream in the Stanitzel

Veilcheneis is an Austrian ice cream specialty that became famous through the preference of Empress Elisabeth and is still offered today in traditional cafés such as Demel in Vienna or in the Schlosshotel Oth in Baden near Vienna .

history

Empress Gustav Seitz's court confectioner had to accompany the monarch on longer journeys. Since the Demel recipe is extremely difficult to use, the cook and confectioner Friz Häring from Tutzing on Lake Starnberg designed a simpler recipe. He received inspiration for this from the journalist and travel writer Heidi Weidner-Weiden.

The violet ice cream from Empress Elisabeth is a sorbet because it contains no milk . During Sisi's lifetime, the name "Frozen" was common. At that time, natural ice was required for production, which was stored in ice cellars or ice boxes from winter; an ice-salt- cold mixture was made from it, which was used to cool the bowls when making ice cream (industrial artificial ice cream production from drinking water began around 1876, refrigerators only came into households around 1920).

In the Palace of Gödöllő can still be seen the Sisi-quarters today. The wallpapers are held in strong purple, inspired by Sisi's favorite flower, the violet . The violet ice cream was obtained in Hungary from Café Gerbeaud .

Sisi used to keep her slim figure with exercise and dieting . The violet ice cream was an integral part of her diet, as the historian Brigitte Hamann confirmed. Emperor Franz Joseph asked his wife in letters in vain to give up her diet, which included the diet consisting of only two oranges and violet ice cream a day , as Sigrid-Maria Grossing describes.

You should also know that the violet fragrances, the ionones , are not digested by the body, i.e. are excreted again undigested. That is why products with violet root , candied violet confectionery or violet ice cream were popular in the finer society, as they helped to experience better, more decent smells in the toilet .

Trivia

A tasting of violet ice cream is part of some Vienna city tours.

Frozen food was very popular in the 19th century. Moritz Gottlieb Saphir wrote in a poem that referred to the Schreiner coffee house in Baden near Vienna:

From three to four there is nobody missing
a covenant it is a sworn
They are all sitting there with carpenter
and smoke a frozen one.

In July 2009, 3sat broadcast a documentary entitled Die Große Lust - Eine Kulinarische Zeitreise , in which Sisis Veilcheneis was also reported.

Preparation according to Demel

The squeezed juice of violets is mixed with sugar and - as in the production of cotton candy - made to "spin", ie heated to its pouring point of 150 ° C. Then the mass is cooled slightly and stirred in a bowl at a lukewarm temperature and cooled down further. A wooden handle is used for this procedure, the lower end of which is shaped into a ball. The sorbet is flavored with champagne or liqueur .

literature

  • Josef Cachée: The Imperial and Royal Court Kitchen and Court Table The court kitchen, the court confectionery and the court cellar in the Vienna Hofburg , incl. Empress Elisabeth's violet ice cream. Verlag Almathea, Vienna, 2nd edition, 1987, ISBN 3-85002-208-0
  • Gerhard Tötschinger : Would you like to dine? A culinary foray through the countries of the Danube Monarchy - stories and dishes . Amalthea Verlag Vienna ISBN 3-85002-384-2 (pages 76-78)
  • Lisbeth Exner: Elisabeth of Austria. 2004 - page 124
  • Sigrid-Maria Grössing: Empress Elisabeth and her men 1998 - page 52
  • Petra Windhausen: Elisabeth - from today, in 60 years. 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Demel - Notice that Empress Elisabeth ate her violet ice cream here on Vienna experience (accessed October 24, 2009).
  2. ^ Elisabeths Veilcheneis in Baden near Vienna (accessed October 24, 2009).
  3. ^ Gerhard Tötschinger : Would you like to dine? A culinary foray through the countries of the Danube Monarchy - stories and dishes . Amalthea Verlag Vienna ISBN 3-85002-384-2 (page 77).
  4. ↑ a b Gerhard Tötschinger: Desires to dine? A culinary foray through the countries of the Danube Monarchy - stories and dishes . Amalthea Verlag Vienna ISBN 3-85002-384-2 (page 76).
  5. ^ Sisi chambers in Gödöllö Castle ( memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 24, 2009).
  6. ↑ PHOTOGRAPHY: Nice stupid . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1980 ( online - Oct. 6, 1980 ).
  7. ^ Sigrid-Maria Großering: Sisi, a modern woman Molden Verlag ; Edition: 1st edition (September 2007) ISBN 978-3-85485-212-4 (page 182).
  8. ↑ flowers confectionery at wien.info
  9. ↑ Günther Ohloff: Fragrances and olfactory senses - The whey world of fragrances , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1990 and 2013, ISBN 978-3-540-52560-8
  10. ↑ Official homepage of Wien Tourismus - In the footsteps of the Habsburgs including violet ice cream at Demel ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 24, 2009)
  11. ^ Eating Sisis Veilcheneis as part of a city tour through Vienna ( Memento of July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 24, 2009).
  12. ↑ Empress Elisabeth and her violet ice cream documentary: The great pleasure - A culinary journey through time broadcast on July 5th, 2009 on 3sat .