berries and fruit are often part of sauces for game meat and honey is used in various pork roast recepies or for glazed vegetables, no need to go back to “ancient times”. hell i have a recipie for “Currywurst”(its a german thing, has basically nothing in common with curries) asking for apple sauce and made a plum sauce to go with duck for christmas once and i belive us americans stuff turkeys with various things that can also include jams.
source: a german who likes to cook and mostly learned it from his grandmother, somestuff might be old fashioned, but definitely not ancient.
Not nitpicking just super curious: I quite like the currywurst I can get locally and it’s served as a bratwurst with an (english) curry sauce on top - is that not what a currywurst is in Germany?
I don’t know how an english curry sauce is done but in germany the sauce is
tomato based (some recipies use ketchup)
contains curry powder (hence the name)
can be spicy
often has a fruity flavour
the ingredients for the one with apple sauce are something like this.
1 big white onion
500g dices tomatoes
500g pureed tomatoes
50ml orange juice
4 table spoons apple sauce
curry powder
honey or sugar
salt, pepper, hot paprika powder to taste
you sauté the diced onion, add the juice and honey followed by the rest of the ingredients and cook for a long while on low to medium heat.
but recepies vary widely.
what kind of sausage is used also varies depending on which part of the country you are in.
I am from the Ruhrarea and here grilled sausages are the norm, i think in Berlin its more common to use a hot dog style sausage and in regions known for a special kind of sausage you can probably order a currywurst with the regional speciality.
I mean, when you think about it, the combination of meat plus berries/fruit and leafy greens or vegetable is the diet our ancestors survived on, also nuts were an important food source.
Hunting meat and gathering fruit/berries, nuts, and veggies; it’s what all recipes evolved from.
I feel like apart from the honey being a bit more difficult, meat and berries could be a combination that has been done in ancient times
berries and fruit are often part of sauces for game meat and honey is used in various pork roast recepies or for glazed vegetables, no need to go back to “ancient times”. hell i have a recipie for “Currywurst”(its a german thing, has basically nothing in common with curries) asking for apple sauce and made a plum sauce to go with duck for christmas once and i belive us americans stuff turkeys with various things that can also include jams.
source: a german who likes to cook and mostly learned it from his grandmother, somestuff might be old fashioned, but definitely not ancient.
I never said there was such need. But that it was done since those times and still now.
Not nitpicking just super curious: I quite like the currywurst I can get locally and it’s served as a bratwurst with an (english) curry sauce on top - is that not what a currywurst is in Germany?
I don’t know how an english curry sauce is done but in germany the sauce is
the ingredients for the one with apple sauce are something like this.
you sauté the diced onion, add the juice and honey followed by the rest of the ingredients and cook for a long while on low to medium heat.
but recepies vary widely.
what kind of sausage is used also varies depending on which part of the country you are in.
I am from the Ruhrarea and here grilled sausages are the norm, i think in Berlin its more common to use a hot dog style sausage and in regions known for a special kind of sausage you can probably order a currywurst with the regional speciality.
I mean, when you think about it, the combination of meat plus berries/fruit and leafy greens or vegetable is the diet our ancestors survived on, also nuts were an important food source.
Hunting meat and gathering fruit/berries, nuts, and veggies; it’s what all recipes evolved from.
As a history student I am absolutely certain it has been done lol
We do berries and cream or berries and ice cream regularly. Not steak so much, but we had both last Sunday as a treat.