Albert Schweitzer Game - Part 3 - Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Albert Schweitzer Game – Part 3 – Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Rounding out the Alsatian menu with protein, carbohydrates, and fruit has allowed Alsatians to withstand severe winters and wars for centuries. 

Much of their agricultural bounty can be bottled or canned to last over winter.  Alsatians can live off the agricultural products grown in their region, if they have to.  Many of these products are familiar to Americas.

As you read through the agricultural products associated with Alsace, I am giving French Club members 3 tasks to do:

Task 1:

Try to think of recipes you can make in the US with the items that are not Alsatian, but use the same ingredients.

Task 2:

Read Marguerite Spoerlin’s La Cuisine Alsacienne and make the recipes, using substitutions if you have to.  Venison and goose, for example, are difficult to find in US supermarkets.  You might be able to order them at Customer Service counters, but they are not on the shelves.

Task 3:

Think of homemade soups to make and what you can use as thickeners.

Alsatian Vegetables – Main Ones

-White asparagus

The best white asparagus is supposed to come from the Alsatian town of Hoerdt.

-Mushrooms

Various kinds

-Baby carrots

-cabbage

Alsatian Carbohydrates

-egg noodles such as those made by Lustucru

-baguette slices

-kugelhopf

(Germans eat egg noodles, too, in the form of spätzle.)

Alsatian Fruit Orchards:  A Tart Maker’s Paradise

Alsace is famous for its fruit orchards, whose produce is used to make both fruit tarts ad eau-de-vie such as Poire Williams.

Some of the produce that grows in the orchards of Alsace includes:

-plums (quetsches – purple plums)

-apples

-cherries for cherry pie

-apricots for clafoutis – similar to American cobblers from the South

There is a Dole, France like the Dole name for pineapples and presidential candidates.

Learning how to make quiche crust will save you money in the long run, if you figure out how much a homemade crust costs versus store-bought ones.

Task 4:

How much does each store bought crust cost?

How much does it cost to make a homemade crust?

Happy figuring!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Savvy Mom Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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