Casserole

A casserole is a cooked in the oven, salty or sweet abgeschmecktes court.

In a narrower sense it is synonymous with the soufflé; Erhard Gorys does this in his work The new kitchen lexicon and thereby derives the name " casserole ", " accumulate " from, so the rising of the beaten egg white -containing mass casserole ago.

In a broader sense, however, other cooked in the oven dishes are referred to as casseroles, such as gratins; characteristic in this case the arrangement of the various ingredients in a plurality of layers.

Widespread Casseroles are pasta, rice and potato casserole, a variant is the gratin. A sweet casserole, for example, the funeral pyre, a court of Austrian cuisine, are piled up in the bread and apple slices, or semolina pudding.

History

Casseroles emerged from filled pies that were already part of the medieval kitchen. First casserole recipes are obtained from the beginning of the 18th century. These first casserole recipes had as a matrix in a compressed rice porridge, which was prepared with sweet or savory fillings in refractory pots. In 1866, of the Franco -Canadian Elmire Jolicoeur in Berlin (New Hampshire ), the first was prepared "modern" emergence of the North American kitchen. Early as the late 19th century, the casserole was represented in English cookbooks. Today, the casserole is an integral part of the kitchen and the only " national dish " with North American roots.

Ambiguity

The importance of baking as a crowd addressed Ulrich Roski in his song "The Little Man on the Street " (1974) in a humorous form.