[Sca-cooks] Ein gefulten kuchen

[Kerri Martinsen]

Kochen  = to cook

Could be " A good baked dish"?

Vitha

On 6/17/03 12:35 AM, "lilinah at earthlink.net" <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Someone posted to another list:
>> I have just begun doing my own redactions. Usually I can figure out
>> at least a beginning "recipe" but this one is totally defeating me.
>> It is from Guter Spise:
>>
>> 13. Ein gefülten kuchen (A filled cake)
>> Zu gefülten kuchen nim dez dobriz und zuslahe den mit eyern und tu
>> dar zu ein wenie brotes oder gestozzene vische oder daz dicke von der
>> mandel milich. hie von mac man machen mit gutem krute kuchin oder waz
>> man wil von mus.
>>
>> To (make) a filled cake take this dobriz and mix it with eggs and do thereto
>> a little bread or beaten fish or the thick of the almond milk. From
>> here one may make, with good herbs, cakes or what man wants of puree.
>>
>> (Dobriz is described in source A's glossary as a condiment made of
>> peeled and chopped apples, cooked in honeywater and preserved for a
>> year. The description comes from recipe 141 in the "Mondseer Kochbuch''
>> (the original of which is, according to source A, stored in the collection of
>> the Austrian National Library as Codex 4995).)
>>
>> Here is my initial interpretation:
>> okay, I don't have an initial interpretation. I'm stumped. This
>> description could not possibly make anything resembling "cake",
>> especially not with fish in it... unless it's more like a crabcake...
>> but with apple preserves?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Any suggestions as to how to interpret this for her? Is there some
> other meaning for "kuchen"?
>
> Anahita
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