SC - Planning a German Feast

[david friedman]

At 7:44 AM -0500 10/28/00, Diana L Skaggs wrote:
>All, I'm formulating a German Feast for next September.



>OK - additions, suggestions, etc.?  Thank you in advance for your help.
>Leanna

My main reaction is that although some of these may be things you can 
find period recipes for, almost all of them are things you can find 
modern recipes for. So your diners aren't going to learn much about 
period German food--they are already familiar with Bratwurst and 
sauerbraten and apple strudel, assuming they ever eat in modern 
German restaurants. It would be a more interesting feast if you 
started by going through some period German cookbooks and tried to 
get a feel for what their meals were like--including things that 
aren't already familiar.

Two German cookbooks that I know of (Sabin Welserin and Buch von 
Guter Speise) are available on the web in English translation; if you 
read German there are other cookbooks available untranslated.
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David/Cariadoc
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