AMERICAN: All the cheesecake recipes you will need from TBSN

LINK TO CHEESECAKE RECIPES

AMERICAN: New York Times Cooking - QUICK LINK FOR FRUIT PIES

LINK TO NEW YORK TIMES COOKING 

RECIPES FOR FRUIT PIES

AMERICAN: Food and Wine presents SweetOoeyGooey bread puddings - QUICK LINK FOR 11 DESSERTS

Food and Wine presents SweetOoeyGooey bread puddings

(Photos from Food and Wine)

The Fat is Back Part 2 - Huffington Post's Salads & Donatella Video

Link to The Fat is Back Part 1 - FREE DROID TRACKING APP

http://internationalfoodblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fat-is-back-part-1-free-droid.html

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The Fat Is Back Part 2 - Huffington Post's HUFF POST TASTE post on salads.

GENERIC PHOTOS OF SALADS INCLUDED IN THIS POST.  LINKS BELOW. 

  

  

  

31 salads AND video of Donatella preparing "Caprese Salad"   In case you haven't heard of Donatella Arpaia, chef & restauranteur here are some links about her (below):  I have one of her cookbooks.  Tells you what to stock in your pantry for emergencies and lots, lots more!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella_Arpaia

https://twitter.com/donatellaarpaia

http://www.facebook.com/donatellaarpaia

SALAD RECIPES LINK WITH PHOTOS, RECIPES AND SCROLL DOWN PAGE FOR VIDEO OF DONATALLA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/salad-recipes-dinner-lunch_n_2396551.html?ir=taste&utm_campaign=010313&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-taste&utm_content=Title#slide=1938228

SOME OF THE RECIPES:

Spinach, Gruyere, Dried Cranberry And Walnut Salad - This salad is good!!

Kale And Apple Salad With Pancetta And Candied Pecans - Have pancetta in freezer ready for this recipe. 

Winter Salad With Rice Vinaigrette

Beet Salad With Tangerines

New-Style Greek Salad

And 26 more recipes!!

Personal note about salads:  Some peoples' systems can't take salads every day (like mine) so I take flax seed, drink buttermilk, etc., if you do the salad thing with a vengence. 

The Harmonists I - 18th & 19th century German cooking

Was in Economy (Old Economy Village), Pa in September (There was a FEST that weekend)

(see my personal photos at bottom of page) 

which is the final home of the Harmony Society, one of America's most successful Christian communal groups. It is a National Historic Landmark that is open year round. There are 16,000 Harmonist objects exhibited in 17 restored structures between 1824 and 1830.

The purpose of this blog is to talk about the food (German) with excerpts from 18th and 19th century German cookbooks in the collections of Old Economy Village.  

Courtesy of the interesting read I purchased entitled "from the Harmonist "Küche" ".

Why am I writing this series?  I am German, Scotch-Irish and Welsh from western Pennsylvania.  

And, yes, I am a Steelers' fan!

PERSONAL STORY 1:  I lived in Germany for a year in the little town of Oberrodenbach (near Hanau and Frankfort) (which means over the Rodenbach river) where I learned to appreciate and come to love "spargle" or white asparagus freshly picked every day and a pound was 25 pfennig (German pennies) (I tried to find out what a pfennig was worth back then but I couldn't find it.  I think at that time in the middle 1960's that the dollar was equal to the mark so the pound of spargle cost me 25 cents American) and was delivered to your door. It was grown in mounds underground to keep the sun from getting to it (thus no chorophyll) so it would be white. The skin was tougher than green asparagus and you had to use a potato peeler to remove the skin.  My German neighbor didn't have one nor had never seen a potato peeler

so I bought one for her when I found out that she had to use a knife to peel.  She was elated; it was like I had given her a ton of pfennigs!!  After you peeled it you boiled it in water with a little vinegar added until tender and put butter and salt and pepper on it!! Nothing better than out of the garden. (NOTE: At that time all of the spargle for western Germany was grown in Oberrodenbach and Niederrodenbach.)

Enough of that story but since my heritage is German (my dad sang to me in German when I was small) and having had the fortune of living there for a year I am interested in all things German, especially German cooking.

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Cookbooks in the 18th and 19th century were nothing like they are now!!

No photos and no number of servings 

and no measurements and no temperatures!!

A lot of the recipes come from Tübingen in Würrtemberg, Germany (I lived in Hessen area which you can see on the map north of Würrtemberg)

I have a included a link below from WIKI showing the area.  If you click on the map it will get larger and you can find the area noted. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg

NOTE:  I know the link above looks crazy but it works!!

  

  

 

EXCERPT ONE:  

Cabbage Soup

Take half of a white head of cabbage; remove the inner rib. Cabbage is boiled lightly in salted water. Drain, put in fresh cold water. You may use a strainer or a napkin, so that the cabbage is well drained. A piece of butter is added to a broth, seasoned with nutmeg and pepper; allow drained cabbage to boil till soft. (This is confusing to me. Says nothing about putting the cabbage back in the water nor any measurements for the nutmeg and pepper nor for the amount of time to cook it ...) Prepare a soup of meat broth; serve over white bread slices; arrange cabbage in the middle. Pour broth over all. 

EXCERPT TWO:

Apple Dumplings

Peel sour apples, as many as you need. Chop them fine; roast them a little in LARD.  Take a few peeled, chopped almonds, moisten them just barely in sweet cream. Mix all this together with finely grated bread crumbs.  Add eggs to bring to the right thickness.  Add raisins, sugar and cinnamon. Roll the formed round dumplings in flour and fry in LARD. With this belongs a sweet broth made from sugar, cinnamon, chopped almonds, onions, raisins and a little wine. 

EXCERPT THREE:

Young Chickens with Currants

Boil or roast young chickens as you like.  Take currants, add wine, cinnamon, and sugar and let boil together.  Pour this broth over the chickens. 

All excerpts above from "from the Harmonist "Küche" ".

What do you think?  This is the FIRST PART OF A SERIES

Below are a few of my personal photos from my trip: