Kaltschale (German cuisine) : The Kaltschale (literally bowl cold) Is a flat cold liquid et creamy, sweet or spicy, which is eaten instead of Soupe, especially in summer in many German regions. These Creations cold sweet can also be served in dessert.
There are different types of cold Kaltschale depending on the ingredients basic used:
– Cold dish with milk: The base is the milk, buttermilk, fermented milk or yogurt, For example Koldskål (sweet) or garlic sauce (spicy)
– Cold fruit bowls: based on fruits, pulp de fruits or Juice
– Cold dishes beer or the family wine : they are made up of alcoholic beverages heavily seasoned, which are linked or served clear.
- Soups de vegetables cold: based on vegetables finely chopped and / or in mash potatoes with somewater and / or broth and Team spices (like for example the gazpacho)
A cold dish always contains an addition, for example based on fruits, rusks or egg whites, and is often thickened with some sago. These dry mixes are also commercially available as semi-finished products which are mixed with water.
Historical references to the Kaltschale: The lexicon of women's conversations of the 1836th century (XNUMX) mentions that: "The cold Kaltschale, a real flat German which replaces the Soupe in many areas during the hot season and which is prepared in different ways, but most often from good beer, pain grated, sucre, zest de lemon and small raisins. Here and there you generally enjoy this mix as drink refreshing in addition to the meal, but only in the afternoon, and the cold dish, which the brilliant entertainment venues of the Berlin region offer to walkers, is particularly famous in this regard. »
Kaltschale is also mentioned as a cold dish buttermilk in the Universal Cooking Glossary of Leipzig in 1886. From buttermilk mixed with cream sweet was placed on rusks broken to slices de White breadthen sprinkled de black bread grated, previously roast with some sucre until it is brown.
Beer is always jokingly called bowl of hop cold or cold bowl ofbarley, in the past it was actually the most common base of the Kaltschale. The hot counterpart was Soupe de beer.