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Sweet and savory is a classic, sweet condiments are super common - if fried food with ketchup, barbecue sauce etc. is fine, why not berries, jams, honey?
Game meat with jam (specifically lingonberry/cowberry) is a very common recipe, and lingonberry jam with baked and battered camembert is also a thing (and really good).
Anyway, GRAARRRWWWRR
Sounds awesome, actually. This hit me in the funny bone so hard
Roast chicken with blueberries and candied pecans in a spinach salad drizzled in raspberry vinaigrette is bomb.
Meat, berries, and nuts with leafy greens is like the diet our ancestors survived on and it slaps.
Nah I bet it slaps.
Y’all were way too quick to turn your back on medieval cooking. The peasant in the back of my head frequently reminds me to add nice jams or side fruit to my meat dishes, and it is always correct. This is no different than a delicious honey glazed ham with sliced pineapple.
I mean BBQ sauce is like 80% sugar so
It’s okay to exist in a time of historical change, eating a steak, bearly.
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
- 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.
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.
This reminds me in that one recipe in RAFT (steam game) that’s literally baked chicken with a side of jam.
For a French, this is absolutely not surprising. Eating duck chest with a sweet sauce is very common (when eating duck which is not this common). The sauce is either oranges or berries with honey
I’ve definitely had honey-glazed porkchops before. I don’t know about the berries, but that’s more personal preference I think. Blend them into some sort of cream or dairy based sauce with some rosemary, maybe a little lemon juice, and I’m probably in.
