Albert Schweitzer Game: French Alsatian Food – Part 2 – Created by
Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Alsatian
Cuisine is seasonal which means that different agricultural products grow or
are harvested in summer, fall, winters, and spring.
In
winter, the following meats are served with mushroom gravies or sauerkraut with
caraway seeds. Mushrooms grow in the
Christmas tree forests of Alsace and are served in gravy form with meat and
steamed potatoes as side dishes in the winter.
Typical
dishes include that I have eaten at the Relais des Moines in Riquewihr and
various locations around Strasbourg’s Cathedral:
-venison
with mushroom gravy and baguette slices – pinot noir from Burgundy is the wine
of choice.
Alsace’s
best wines are dry, fruity Rieslings.
House wines tend to be from nearby Burgundy.
-freshwater
fish with a light cream sauce – Riesling or pinot grigio from Alsace as wines
-wild
boat sausage with grape leaves stuffed with rice and avgolemono lemon sauce –
pinot grigio from Alsace or Chablis from Burgundy
-roast
goose with sausage – Riesling from Alsace as a wine
-roast
pork with baked white beans (cannellini) in tomato sauce – pinot noir from Burgundy
-split
and roasted small wild birds with buttered, egg noodles with – pinot grigio
from Alsace
In
Strasbourg, I ate choucroute garnie (sweet sauerkraut with a variety or pork or
goose sausage) and flammekeuche (onion pizza) with Foster’s beer that is brewed
in town.
There
is a beer route in Alsace when I read the book La Route de la Bière en Alsace by Gabriel Thierry and Elénore
Delpierre.
The
task:
French
club members should try and translate that book for themselves into
English. It has not been translated yet.
Plan
an imaginary trip to Alsace.
Try
to make those dishes above from an Alsatian cookbook such as La Cuisinière Alsacienne by Marguerite
Spoerlin.
Task: Translate the above cookbook into English for
yourself. It has not been translated.
Part
3 of the Schweitzer Game to come…..
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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