[Loch-Ruadh] Fw: [SCA Newcomers] History in the news - period bratwurst recipe

[Steve Rourke]

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> Historian finds oldest recipe for bratwurst
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> A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German
> sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years
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> According to the 1432 guidelines, Thuringian sausage makers had to use
> only the purest, unspoiled meat and were threatened with a fine of 24
> pfennigs -- a day's wages -- if they did not, a spokesman for the German
> Bratwurst Museum said Wednesday.
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> Medieval town markets in Germany had committees charged with monitoring
> the quality of produce. Thuringian bratwursts, which are made of beef
> and pork, are symbols of Germany's cultural heritage and ubiquitous
> snacks at football matches.
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> Historian Hubert Erzmann, 75, found the ancient recipe, inscribed with
> pen and ink in a heavy tome of parchment, earlier this year while doing
> research in an archive in the eastern town of Weimar, museum spokesman
> Thomas Maeuer said.
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> "The discovery shows that there were already consumer protection laws in
> the Middle Ages," he said.
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> The instructions go on display Thursday in the Bratwurst Museum near the
> eastern city of Erfurt, Thuringia's capital.
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