Butterbrot

A sandwich is a buttered slice of bread. In parts of North Germany the word butter bread refers to a finished piece of bread with butter does not have to belong to the covering.

Origin, differentiation and proliferation

For the classic bread and butter, an origin in the German culture can be accepted. Johann Wolfgang Goethe Werther had his report that he is "the bread and butter and sour milk shared " with some kids. About the appearance of this specimen we learn nothing. The context suggests a simple evening meal. The banal and scanty of the simple butter bread is also in such phrases as " work for a song " ( = be underpaid ) or " to get something for a song " ( = to purchase cheap) or " did not miss the butter on bread " get.

The folklorist Günter Wiegel man mentioned in his research work everyday and hard food in Central Europe: innovation, structures and regions from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century that Martin Luther in 1525 a " Putterpomme " ( Butterbemme ) describes as a "good baby food ." ( According to another source mentioned Luther in a letter that " Butterpomme " as " popular children's food .") The painter Pieter Brueghel shows on his 1568 's painting The Peasant Wedding, the first " sandwich picture ," a child with a half-eaten sandwich in her lap lying.

The de Gruyter variant dictionary mentioned in this context, the terms Bemme ( Saxon ), Kniffte ( German Ruhrgebiet ), cuts and sandwiches ( Northeast German / Berlin dialect ). In the northern Rhineland, on the Lower Rhine, the name Bütterken is in use. In Saarland is called the bread and butter as butter grease ( or butter Schmeer ), the salt, sugar, cocoa or Fenner resin (sugar syrup) is eaten refined. The winner in the country as well as Wittgenstein space the name Donge or Dong is in use. The Austrians used it for a snack or - as well as the South German and South Tyrol - with bread and Vespers. In the Erzgebirge the term is Fieze within the meaning of two folded smeared slices of bread.

The boundary of the main distribution area falls in the west and south mostly along with the Germanic- Romance language border in Switzerland with the language barrier and Brünigbahn -well - Reuss line. The sandwich culture is focused on those geographical areas, the using sourdough focus on brown bread - as opposed to the more common flat bread or baguette - produce.

These include the Dutch. The loanword Boterham is related to the Ripuarian botteramm and referred - as well as its counterpart in the Rhineland - a bread with cold cuts.

Dubbel that ( Pl dubbels ), represents a special form of butter bread. In general, it refers to two slices of bread, which are stored and piled. Mostly, these are cut through the middle. The word is probably derived from from the former name for ' double ' ( Lower Rhine, 15th century). The Dubbel was very popular, especially in mining, there was not as much coal dust on a fold away together bread. In the Ruhr and Saar mining the Dubbel is in the parlance probably due to French miners.

In countries that have no classical sandwich on brown bread -based translations on the other hand fall from paraphrasing and denote something else. The Mediterranean paraphrases (Italian pane imburrato, Spanish pan con mantequilla ) develop the idea of ​​white bread, which is served before the main meals along with butter.

When Danish smørrebrød the etymology, however, the legislative history in the 19th century is only apparently identical, is quite another. The lush and well -designed in imaginative combinations covering has to be priority over the document, the equally bright or dark bread in this case.

In the Russian language the word bread and butter has been found as a loanword from German input, see German words in Russian. There is meant by a бутерброд ( buterbrod ) a tasty sandwich, which purpose is not necessarily butter must be used ( бутерброд с маслом " Buterbrod with butter " is the Russian no pleonasm ). Russian cuisine has spawned its own sandwich tradition this term.

Consumption habits, butter bread preparations with lining

The German bread and butter, there have been traditionally for breakfast (for biting ) and the bourgeois dinner as a basis for sausage, cheese, etc. or for biting off eg with cheese with music. It also lent itself collapsed as provisions for walkers and breaks for bread and butter - even as an accompaniment to fruit - both for the working population as well as for school children.

In the postwar period, it underwent a so-called Hasenbrot a change of meaning: After the Second World War to the early 1950s, the breadwinner of the family often got the best pieces of rationed food - that is also sausage sandwiches - as catering to the work. If the father had not eaten it, it allowed the kids eat in the evening.

Often, the bread and butter is eaten with various toppings. These can be, for example, cold cuts, cheese or jam; known include the following sandwich preparations, which usually have their name from the respective covering:

• Cheese bread
• Ham sandwich
• Sausage bread

In particular, cheese and ham sandwich belong - often even today - the food variety of restaurants and bars with " German cuisine" or home cooking as well as beer gardens and managed refuges. The transition to snacks, such as snack or snack bread, hot and partly prepared, smaller dishes is fluid. These include, among others:

• Holm bread
• Restoration bread
• Uitsmijter
• Toast Hawaii

Since toast, muesli and cornflakes in Germany to gain in popularity, the bread and butter is increasingly displaced from the breakfast table. In the working population a hot lunch has become common. For family dinners, it has held up to a certain degree, but has been largely replaced by a warm dinner. Contemporary cookbooks and the offers of the catering services are evidence of a sophisticated cultivation of sandwich bread for business lunches or at parties and festivals. These canapés are not called " bread and butter ", but the sandwiches are similar to this product.

The literature on natural food the classic butter bread without coating is currently being re- addressed from the point of sufficiency of bread home-made and the quality of the butter humanely animals kept.

Day of German butter bread

From 1999 to 2008, the Marketing Organization of German Agricultural Industries declared (CMA ) a day in September, the last Friday of the month, the day of the German butter bread. In particular, bakeries made ​​on this day with promotions around bread attention to themselves, at stations distributed the CMA free sandwiches. In 2005 about was the motto of Germany makes the butter test - because flavor convinced and experience new 2006 bread and butter taste.

Case of butter bread

A sandwich almost always falls on the buttered side. This is often attributed to the laws of Murphy, but there is for physical and psychological explanations. The saying ministers fall like the sandwiches: always on the good side at any rate at the beginning of the 19th century appears. This issue was edited as a spectator question in the program with the mouse, which explains the rotation of the buttered side with displacement of the center of weight due to the butter job. Particularly intense is this effect when attempting to benefit from jam or honey sandwiches.

The Science Busters explain why a butter or bread and jam more often lands on the butter or jam page. If the size and height of fall of the bread or toast stand in a certain relation to each other, this actually lands on the butter or jam page. Judging from the height of an average table and you push the marmalade bread from the table edge, which is true exactly. Then, the bread takes the case as much time as a rotation of about 180 degrees. The butter or jam spread on one side has no influence on this effect.

Younger trials bring the phenomenon with the height of fall of the butter bread in context. In the television series Mythbusters various slices of toast were pushed off a table. Here it was noted that the loaves were actually more prevalent on the coated side, since the slice of bread in the rule, it can perform a half turn. The disks were allowed to fall on the other hand upright from the same height, to an expected 50:50 ratio showed. Test manner toast slices from a house roof ( about 8 feet ) from were dropped. Again, there was a 50:50 distribution of the serving pages. A reference to a scientific analysis of the phenomenon is also found in the mirror.