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The Ritschert ( Slow: Ricet ) is a common in the alpine areas of Slovenia and Austria, Bavaria's stew.
A synonym is in Carinthia Gerstbrein, from which also the also common in Slovenian ješprenj has developed.
The etymology of the word Ritschert is controversial. Discussed an origin of Swabian slip tile '(= flat, earthen cooking apparatus ), thus the name, similar to the Reindling would be derived from the cookware, and slip a origins of, slide, which would be derived from the pearl barley.
Ingredients
Are preferred stilts and ribs - The basic ingredients include the previous day soaked barley and legumes ( beans mostly, but also peas or lentils), and smoked ( rare ungeräuchertes ) pork. Beans, pearl barley and meat are with regionally varying spices (pepper, salt, savory, lovage, parsley) and soup vegetables ( carrots, celery, leeks, garlic) cooked together, with the salting is done last. The meat is removed before serving, detached from the bone and cut into bite-sized pieces. Sometimes the court will be served with potatoes instead of bread.
History
The Ritschert is already occupied from prehistoric times. Archaeological finds in the salt mines of Hallstatt prove that Ritschert was already prepared in the Bronze Age. The nutritious dish was cooked on the mountain. By storage in salt preserved, the cookware ( wooden spoon, fragments of pottery ) remained adherent food residues preserved as well as the excrements of the miners and could be analyzed. Were used broad beans ( fava beans, Vicia faba minor), barley, millet, and - as demonstrated by bone finds - pork. Was seasoned and Others with wild garlic.
The first written mention of the court, though not the name, comes from Paolo Santo Nino, 1485 in the report of a meal in the Gail Valley calls the eighth gear than barley in bold meat soup. The word was first mentioned in 1534 as ru ( e) tschart in the monastery of Tegernsee cookbook.
The Court has also found its way into the Jewish cuisine, where it is cooked with goose meat instead of pork ( Scholet, ' goose Biegel ' or goose leg with Ritschert ). Therefore, it is often kept for a genuinely Jewish court in Vienna.