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Franconian Bratwurst |
| Posted by Gerd Roppelt on 2009-02-01 02:37:33 |
| In the case of Franconian Bratwurst there are actually different basic recipes. The first type uses not to much salt, a little amount of pepper and very much marjoram, and the marjoram is predominating (er schmeckt heraus). The second type uses less marjoram, the mixture contains some other spices, for example mace, and the flavour is more rounded and harmonised. In towns like Ansbach and Coburg as well as in Thuringia, which all have a protestantic population majority, you find mainly the first style. In Bamberg and Würzburg and in other towns of Lower Franconia having a catholic population majority, you find mainly the second style. This correlation is not hundred percent, but it exists. Nürnberg has a third type which, exept of the small size, is near to the "protestantic" flavour. By the way, the regional disparities in regard of the religious population distribution have a root in Franconian history. After the end of the old Stammesherzogtum Franken in the year 936, Franconia has been fragmented in many small and smallest territories, until Napoleon rearranged Middle Europe, unified most of Franconia, gave it to the Herzog of Bavaria and made him king. We have had two Hochstifte, Würzburg and Bamberg, each ruled by a bishop respectively a Fürstbischof, some twenty Grafschaften, some territories of Reichsritter, some Freie Reichsstädte like Nürnberg, and for some time the territories of the Hohenzollern, Ansbach and Bayreuth. Chaotic. And after Luther's reformation there was the rule "cuius regio, eius religio", which means each little Landesfürst determined the religious denomination. Oh, history makes me thirsty:) |