Gruel

Gruel is a very simple soup made ​​from flour (usually wheat or rye flour, with the French Gaude corn flour) and water, and other ingredients depending on availability, such as the ones consumed in poor households for breakfast. She is known primarily in eastern and southern Germany and Austria, and Switzerland. As traditional fast food it is still eaten in the regional carnival time, especially in Switzerland, where it is known as Basel flour soup.

The simplest form of a gruel was used to cook out flour with water or milk and - if present - are seasoned with salt or sugar. Partial bread cubes were hineingebrockt as a deposit.

Description of the Prior burnt gruel, soup or even burn roux, is to improve the flavor, roasted first golden brown the flour in the pan or from flour and fat produced a blonde to brown roux and then boiled with water. Can be enriched flour soup according to the recipe by adding ingredients such as onions, spices, herbs, greens, bacon, bone marrow and meat broth.

Who " on the focal soup therefore floats", is redensartlich a poor, even limited or insignificant person; who does not do it, whereas someone who " knows something and has experience " ( Schopf dialect dictionary, Innsbruck, 1866).

Comparable is the meal of soup and bread soup.

• Soup
• German cuisine
• Austrian cuisine
• Swiss cuisine