Landjäger is a

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traditionally made in Southern Germany,

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, and

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. It is popular as a

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during activities such as

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. It also has a history as soldier's food because it keeps without refrigeration and comes in single-meal portions. As a meal, landjäger sausage can be boiled and served with potatoes and fresh greens.

Name

According to the '' Swiss German Dictionary'', the name ''Landjäger'' was possibly derived from the dialect expression ''lang tige(n)'' 'smoked for a long time, air-cured for a long time.' The humorous reinterpretation in the sense of 'mounted police' may be inspired by comparing the stiffness of sausages with the perceived military rigidity of a police officer. The Alsatian and French names for smoked air-cured sausage, ''Gendarm'' and ''gendarme'', are apparently translations of the folk-etymologized German name. "Jäger" should be remembered as a direct, simplified translation from German, meaning "hunter." This could explain the sausage's renewed popularity in the more northern and German-settled parts of the United States. Dedicated hunters consider landjägers as food for hunters taking game to carry on the traditions associated with a lifestyle from previous generations of hunters. A very similar semi-dried sausage known as '' salamino cacciatore'' (translation: "hunter's sausage") is traditionally produced in Central and Northern Italy.

Ingredients

Landjäger sausages are made of roughly equal portions of

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and

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with

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, sugar, red wine, and spices, such as caraway,

black pepper Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a peppercorn, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diame ...

coriander Coriander (;

seed, and

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. They are each in length, made into links of two. Before smoking and drying, they are pressed into a mold, which gives them their characteristic rectangular cross-section of about . Typically, a pair of Landjäger weighs about 100 g and contains about 516 kcal. In Austria, Landjäger is sometimes made using

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References

External links

* Alsatian cuisine German sausages Swiss sausages Culinary Heritage of Switzerland Fermented sausages {{germany-sausage-stub

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