A Remembrance of the Past; Building for the Future." ~ Eve Eckert Koehler
Remembering Our Danube Swabian Ancestors
Typical
Swabian Kitchen
Farmers kitchen
in village of
"Liebling - The
wall is stenciled.
The stove is built
from clay bricks and
then whitewashed.
Take notice the loaf
of bread on the
table. The
whitewashed oven,
built of clay, on
top is a steel plate
with four circled
holes. In
front is a small
gate with small hole
in it. The holes are
there to allow a
draft to enter the
oven and would
improve the burning
of the fire. Broken
up corn stocks or
corn roots would be
used to fire the
oven if wood wasn't
available. In the
background, a pipe
or similar to a pipe
entering the
chimney. The back
portion of the oven
is higher as the
front part of the
oven. The back part
of the oven is also
used to do baking.
After the oven was
no longer in use,
the ashes are
removed from the
ashes & disposed in
the garden.
[Alex Leeb]
Cooking stove with
rear oven,
cooking pans, clothes iron,
butter churn and cooking
utensils. [AGH-JMP]
No
Danube Swabian kitchen would be complete
without the "Wooden Bread Making Bowl!"
[DHM-JMP]
[GFMB-JMP]
Dish rack, painted dishes,
rolling pin, bread making bowl,
tray, salt box, embroidered wall
hanging.
Beautiful Brass Urn
[AGH-JMP]
Cupboard & dishes, teapot, grinders atop, and a butter
churn in corner.
'Blechrollen'
(conical cylinders) used for baking
shells for Schaumrollen pastry. The
cylinders were made of tin -
with or without wire rods serving as
handles. Puff-paste (Blätterteig)
dough was rolled out about 1/4-inch
thick and sliced into strips an inch
wide and a foot long. Each strip was
wrapped, in an overlapping fashion,
around a leavened cylinder and baked
in the oven at high heat. The baked
shells were dusted with powdered
sugar and filled with whipped cream,
after they had cooled sufficiently.
[GFMB-JMP, descriptions by Jacob Steigerwald)
Descriptions
from bottom, left to right:
wine barrel; two bottles; cabbage cutter; scale;
grape press (wine press); a stumpers, sometimes
used to stomp the Sauerkraut; bottom right, a
barrel, (wine barrel); hanging on the wall,
looks like a cloth washer; round tube, is a
sausage press, on right side of the side, it has
a small tube sticking out, that's where the
casing is pulled on. The wooden roller is pulled
out from the large tube, the tube is filled
with mixed meat. The wooden roller is used to
push the meat through the large tube. The mixed
meat is forced into the casing. Above the
sausage tube, could be a tin cub; next, ?;
triangle cup, with cloth inside the cup, was
used to strain fresh milk, also could be for
other purposes; wooden spoon, handing sideways;
tin cup with a long handle, community cup for
water; two small cups. Jugs and baskets, drying peppers
& garlic.
[AGH-JMP]
Descriptions by Alex
Leeb.
Scales & Weights
[AGH-JMP]
Contributors / Credits:
AGH-JMP:
Photo taken by Jody McKim Pharr
at the Adam Müller Guttenbrunn
House, Timisoara, RO
B-Sch:
Translation by Brad Schwebler
AL: Alex Leeb -
Descriptions
GFBM-JMP: Photo
taken by Jody McKim Pharr at the
German Forum Museum, Billed, RO.
ST-HF: Photo
taken by Henry Fischer, Swabian
Turkey.
Jacob
Steigerwald - Descriptions
Mdf-JMP:
Photo taken by Jody McKim Pharr
in the village of Mercydorf.
[Published at DVHH.org 17 Feb 2007 by Jody
McKim Pharr]
