[james500]

Mmmmmm...600 year old Thuringian bratwurst.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I love heritage or antique recipes, but I don’t have any that are 600 years old as far as I know. Wow.

[samtheman]

According to the 1432 guidelines, Thuringian sausage-makers had to use only the purest, unspoiled meat and were threatened with a fine of 24 pfennigs - a day's wages - if they did not

And the fine was double for sausage found to have transfats.

[HungarianGypsy]

**Freeper Kitchen Ping**

The word of the day is ubiquitous.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

PING!

[Chode]

i think i had some at our last reunion...

[steveo]

Beer was also regulated:

Quaff quote
"The best known and most famous brewing law is the Reinheitsgebot. The "Purity Law" is the oldest food regulation in the world and still exists today unchanged from the original. It was ordered by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria in the year 1516. It said that beer should only be brewed from barley, hops and water. Thanks to the regulation, Bavarian beers then became leaders among their peers. Thus other lands of Germany also enforced the regulation."

From http://www.oldworld.ws/okbeerhist.html

Beer and sausage bump

[xJones]

I googled to find out what exactly went into the 600 year old bratwurst recipe and finally found this:

"The instructions go on display Thursday in the Bratwurst Museum near the eastern city of Erfurt, Thuringia's capital."

[mikrofon]

“Bratwurst must be like that or so a crack sausage...”

(excerpt from original 1432 recipe)

[tubebender]

Are you on the foodie list?

[Squantos]

So are they gonna keep the recipe secret for another 600 years or what ?

Where is it ?......:o)

[NittanyLion]

Hard to believe it took nearly 600 years until sausage took another great leap forward...

[martin_fierro]

* droooool *

[wildbill]

Whatever the ingredients, I bet you still wouldn’t want to see how sausage was made in the Middle Ages.

[Vor Lady]

Ping for your collection!

[narses]

Ping.

[AnalogReigns]

A lot of good foods come from the state of Thuringen and to the east, all what was once East Germany. German Pilsner (dryer, and hoppier than it’s Bohemian cousin) for example originated just outside of Dresden, NOT in Bavaria. Several other beers styles (such as bock, double-bock, mai-bock, scharzbier, etc.) came from this area, that until the wall came down, we had no contact with. This is Martin Luther’s part of Germany, as well as Bach, Handel, Lidzt, Goethe, and many other cultural icons.

I’ve had “Original Thurigen Bratwurst” as they name it there, in Thuringen...hot off the grill, served in a bun no wider than your hand (while the sausage is a cresent shape a foot long or so... With good brown mustard, and of course a lovely sharp Radeburger pilsner......UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

Just the thing for lunch on the street in Germany in the summer.