[Sca-cooks] what the Franks were eating

[Huette von Ahrens]

Regina,

I am surprised that you are surprised.  I thought that it was common knowledge that the hot dogs we eat today had been instroduced to the US by Frankfurt butchers when they immigrated to here.  In fact, according to the Oxfort Companion to Food that one expatriot Frankfurt butcher also brought his Dachshund dog with him and opened his shop on Coney Island selling his wurst as "dachshund sausages".  Myth has it that one of his shills got tired of saying "dachshund sausages" and eventually started calling them first "dog sausages" and then "hot dogs".  Another Frankfurt butcher immigrated to Vienna and his wursts soon became "Wienerwurst".  This gentleman eventually immigrated to the US and sold his "wieners" or "wiennies" to the US.  Both butchers used similar recipes, so it is not surprising that franks, hot dogs and wiennies taste so similar, and that what you tasted in Frankfurt long ago tasted just like what we have here because the same recipe is
 still in use.  If you had wanted something different you would have needed to go to another area and taste their local wursts, like weisswurst or knockwurst or bratwurst or leberwurst or blutwurst.

Huette



--- On Sun, 5/2/10, Wanda Pease <wandap at hevanet.com> wrote:

> From: Wanda Pease <wandap at hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] what the Franks were eating
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 10:35 AM
> On 5/2/2010 1:50 AM, Stefan li Rous
> wrote:
> > <<<  And yes, I'm working on figuring
> out what the Franks were eating. :-)
> > 
> > Liutgard>>>
> > 
> > Frankfurters?  :-)
> > 
> > Stefan
> > 
> Having eaten wurst in Frankfurt supposedly from the
> original recipe for that area, Frankfurters and hot dogs
> have a lot in common.  I was disappointed when the
> "Frankfurter" I ordered in one of the oldest Gasthauses in
> Frankfurt tasted like a foot long dog.  Not much in old
> Gasthauses in Frankfurt thanks to the US Army Air Corps
> Urban Redevelopment Division.
> 
> Regina
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