[Sca-cooks] Himmel und Erde

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>   Benedicte alles,
>   Himmel und Erde as I know it....from a pre 
>publication manuscript of a friend of mine from 
>monastery days...'Gottes Lieb fur Mann' God' s 
>love for man, a thousand years of monastic 
>cooking, from Einsedeln. Einsedeln is a Swiss 
>Benedictine monastery founded in the year 935.
>   www.kloster-einsiedeln.sh/

http://www.kloster-einsiedeln.ch/   but I didn't see any recipes
>   
>   Himmel und Erde is Cabbage, Apples and Onions 
>fried/sauteed' in butter with salt and pepper. 
>Often served with goose or pork, but also with 
>other meats and on fast days without butter and 
>just using olive oil.
>
>   I remember it being served even over here in 
>American monasteries who trace their descent 
>from Eisiedeln and Bavarian/Austrian communities.

I checked a bit before I posted.  Cabbage and 
Apples is a classic German dish, but I'd never 
heard it called Heaven and Earth.  All the modern 
recipe could find, including ones in German, are 
for potatoes and apples, sometimes mashed, 
sometimes with onions.   I didn't see any with 
cabbage.

Perhaps the use has changed.  I've heard that 
Erdäpfel originally meant another vegetable 
(perhaps gourd, perhaps some other root) before 
the tag settled on potatoes.  I wonder if the 
dish was originally made with that? I haven't run 
across either combination in period cookbooks, 
but that doesn't mean they didn't make it.  Does 
your cookbook say how old the recipe is?

Ranvaig