[juergen at fiedlerfamily.net: Re: [adamantius.magister at verizon.net: [Sca-cooks] Rumpolt: Was ist einen Spensaw???]]

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

>From our local native-German-speaker on tap...

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I would go with the young pig. Actually, Sew ('Sau', nowadays) just
means sow. Now the 'Spenferckel' that is also mentioned in Rumpolt is a
suckling pig. It seems that a Spensaw is a sow about one or two age
groups up from the Spenferckel, i.e., a young pig but not a suckling
anymore. The word is not very common in the German language anymore,
since the Spanferkel (as it is spelled today) has taken center stage.

- --j


Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
| Hey, Juergen, do you know the answer to this? His dictionary says
| "domestic sow" but everyone else says "young pig"
|
|
| I was just wondering if anyone happened to have handy a better German
| dictionary than mine: I've run across, in Marx Rumpolt's cookbook, a
| reference to wursts "von der Spensaw", whose ingredients get chopped
| and stuffed into guts "von der Spensaw". I assume it's an animal, and
| possibly this is a very minor and temporary brain fart, but does
| anybody know what a Spensaw is?
|
| Many thanks!
|
| Adamantius

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