, literally 'white sausage'; ) is a traditional
Bavaria
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sausage
A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs, may be included as fillers or extenders.
...
made from minced
veal and
pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (''Sus domesticus''). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry, husbandry dating back to 8000–9000 BCE.
Pork is eaten both freshly cooke ...
fatback
Fatback is a layer of subcutaneous fat taken from under the skin of the back of a domestic pig, with or without the skin (referred to as pork rind).
In cuisine
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. It is usually flavored with
parsley,
lemon
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,
mace,
onion
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s,
ginger
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and
cardamom
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, although there are some variations.
Then the mixture is stuffed into pork casings and separated into individual sausages measuring about in length and in thickness.
As they are not smoked or otherwise preserved they are very perishable. were traditionally manufactured early in the morning and prepared and eaten as a snack between breakfast and lunch. There is a saying that the sausages should not be allowed to hear the noon chime of the
church bells.
Even today, most Bavarians never eat after lunchtime (though it is perfectly acceptable to have a lunch consisting of ).
The sausages are heated in water—well short of boiling—for about ten minutes, which will turn them greyish-white because no colour-preserving
nitrite
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is used in preparation.
are brought to the table in a big bowl together with the hot water used for preparation (so they do not cool down too much), then eaten without their skins.
Ways of eating include the traditional way, called (Bavarian for sucking), in which each end of the sausage is cut or bitten open, after which the meat is sucked out from the skin.
Alternatively, the more popular and more discreet ways of consuming it are by cutting the sausage lengthwise and then "rolling out" the meat from the skin with a fork,
or also to open it on one end and consume it very much like a banana, ever opening the peel further and dipping the sausage into the mustard.
is commonly served with a Bavarian sweet
mustard () and accompanied by (Bavarian
pretzel—often spelled outside Bavaria) and .
, whose consumption traditionally is associated with Bavaria, helped in the coining of a humorous term, (literally, 'white-sausage-equator'), that delineates a cultural boundary separating other linguistic and cultural areas from
Southern Germany.
See also
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List of veal dishes
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References
External links
Food from Bavariapublished by the ''Bavarian Dept. for agriculture and forests''
The correct treatment of a Weißwurst- essay about preparing and eating Weißwurst properly (
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German sausages
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1853 introductions
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