Teewurst

Teewurst is a spreadable raw sausage with spicy, feinsäuerlichem taste. It comes as coarse or fine Teewurst in the trade. On the origin of the name and the recipes there are different views.

Production

To prepare pork are (partly also beef) and ground bacon in a ratio of about two to one coarse or fine in a meat grinder, mixed with spices, in the intestines (now mostly special, porous artificial casings ) filled and often smoked over beech wood. Then the sausage is aged seven to ten days by lactic acid fermentation to develop its typical taste. Teewurst has a fat content of 30 to 40%, which makes it especially easy to spread.

Origin of the term

The origin of the term is no longer comprehensible today; as an ingredient was never tea included. One explanation relates to the company Rügenwalder mill. Then the origin of the Teewurst in Pomeranian Rügenwalde is (now Darłowo in Poland). There she was made ​​since 1874 in the meat factory by Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Schmidt neck ( 1837-1927 ), whose wife, the master butcher daughter Karoline Ulrike Rudolph ( 1841-1925 ), the recipe is said to have 1866 brought into the marriage. There should they be eaten for afternoon tea one day and have found that they to fit particularly well. Other sources state that they wanted to remember with the attribute "tea" to " lordly English customs ."

By 1945, a meat industry has established itself, whose best-known product was the Teewurst in Rügenwalde. In 1927, the term " Rügenwalder Teewurst " was legally protected as a geographical indication of origin.

After the Second World War established fled from Rügenwalde sausage manufacturer in the Federal Republic of Germany and new businesses started production of the traditional sausage spread on again. They founded an association of former Rügenwalder meat factory, the " Rügenwalder Teewurst " since 1957 owner of the word mark. A ruling by the Supreme Court may now use Teewurst only companies that were formerly located in Rügenwalde, the brand name Rügenwalder. Companies that can not produce evidence of descent, only " Teewurst " or " Teewurst after Rügenwalder kind " shall be allowed to trade.

In the GDR, the term was used as a generic name and was not protected.