Allerheiligenstriezel

The All Saints ( also regionally Strietzel, Allerseelenzopf, soul tip, soul bread, Soul Awakening or Allerseelenbreze ) is a braided plait in yeast pastries. Like other Striezel braids and also it is made of flour, eggs, yeast, fat, raisin, a little milk and salt and poppy seeds for sprinkling or Körndl-/Hagelzucker and is manufactured according to local custom with rum or lemon juice.

Customs

From Austria to Bavaria baptismal godfather or give it to Saints their godchildren.

The tradition has its roots in ancient cults mourning, as one who braided hair in sections on to express his grief. In the 19th century the poor were blessed with the All Saints after the presentation Peter Roseggers. For the sponsor and Firm children who grew up in unbegüterten conditions in the country, the gift meant a " compensation to the usual days of Darbens and saving ".

In particular, in Linz, the success of the bakery plant with the superstition was connected, this stands for good luck and success for the year ahead. Did not go to the dough, there were fears of great misfortune or even his own death.

To mock unmarried women because of their celibacy, they were considered by young men with Striezeln of straw.

Christian Schölnast went in his 1971 novel, Stronger than all the weapons in the manufacture of All Saints.