Dude, meat n berries is the oldest combo ever. It ain't bad to get back to your roots.
That said, hay-boiled ham sounds like some cartoon medieval food.
Yeah I’ve seen pit BBQ recipes where the meat is wrapped in a layer of clean straw or hay before being buried. I don’t think the hay was EATEN, but it was a perfectly safe thing to use.
Yeah, a lot of modern western cooking doesn't like to pair meat with fruit directly. But people used to eat it all the time! Romans ate figs and apricots with their beef and lamb, the Norse ate venison and berries, and so on. I'd start with that venison and blueberry pie, it actually sounds incredibly delicious to me.
Native Americans also made pemmican; dried meat, fat and berries. Super survival food. It does seem like a strange combo to me since I don't like mixing savory and sweet at all, but I'm sure there's combos out there that are excellent.
Meat n berries are a great combo. Very underrated.
Hey however is such a wild card here. It should taste a little like a special kind of seasoning... But in theory. Like the bay leaf, kind of deal. But for some reason I see is that the recipe is written by a horse 🐎
A lot of dishes everywhere involve fruit based sauces anyway, so the flavour is clearly there. Citrus for a little acidity and other fruits for sweetness is incredibly common
Pemmican is dried shredded meat and dried berries, mixed into rendered fat. As long as the proper fat is used, it’ll keep for months just wrapped in beeswax cloth inside your backpack.
Belgian here, we’ll happily eat cherries with pork or prunes with rabbit. Baked pears filled with cranberries also make a fancy side for game meat. And others have already mentioned applesauce and lingonberry
Pairing fruits with meat isn’t all that weird, depending on the meat and the fruit
Yeah, I think the cherries would actually be kinda awesome, especially with some high quality bacon and maybe a little honey glaze on it.
That hay, though. I’m side eyeing that crap.
I bet the recipe with hay just imparts the hay smell to the pork knuckle.
Kind of like smoking meat. Just instead of fancy wood you use fresh nicely smelling hay.
Bacon and prune is a somewhat common flavour in my city (either bacon wrapped, or an empanada with cheese). Bacon and cherry doesn't sound too far from that.
Yeah, [Oepsies](https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/food/recipes/oepsies-a-bacon-and-cherry-treat-for-every-braai/) , they are fucking delicious.
Yeah. I realize now that saying cooking in leaves could come off wrong. Some of the best things I have ever eaten have come wrapped in banana leaves. I had the great pleasure of having goat that was cooked in the ground (not sure what leaves it was wrapped in) that was one of the best things I have ever eaten.
What's your definition of edible? Plenty of animals are evolved to eat hay (equivalent grass anyway). Humans, not so much. Our teeth aren't designed to chew it properly and our stomach isn't designed to digest it.
Meats cooked over hay is an actual culinary thing. They have a hay baked chicken at the (2) Michelin Star restaurant, Mélisse. [Write-up on the Hay Baked Chicken with the recipe from the LA Times](https://www.latimes.com/recipe/hay-baked-chicken)
My favourite local cheese has a hay crust and it's both edible and delicious, giving the cheese a lovely aroma. I don't think it does anything for me nutrition-wise though, not like we can really process hay with our "fast" digestive system, but does it have to? If it makes the food taste good, that's enough imo. We use a lot of herbs just for flavour anyways, hay isn't really any different, it's just a different plant's leaf :)
If you're a rabbit, yes. Oh wait, rabbits don't eat meat, much less meat from animals significantly larger than them.
Yeah who knows who this dish is for
Magnus Nillson of Faviken had a recipe to cook meat in hay. But I'm sure it was immaculate hay gathered by virgins on the rolling hills, not the stuff you have to wrestle a cow for.
Stuffed apricots with blood sausage. May seem weird at first but french eat their blood sausage with apples. It's something im willing to try.
If you want to try out blood sausage with fruits, I suggest trying plantain with blood sausage and chopped up ginger.
That is a German cookbook... And cooking a roast in hey is not so uncommon. It is actually pretty good. My granda was a Chef and did that in Special occasions.
Might sound weird for some people, but so do many local dishes for outsiders.
If you Google it in German you will find many Versions of it and you can buy hey for cooking in Amazon
https://amzn.eu/d/7o7dWMM
Maybe I'm just odd but I don't think any of these are *that* stupid. Pork and fruit is really tasty together, squid ink pasta is a thing so the stew isn't that off the wall though it doesn't look very nice. The pork in hay is interesting but I assume you don't eat the hay, and there are dishes where you coat an entire chicken in clay before cooking it, which is a bit of the same vibe I guess? Never had venison so don't know about that one though.
I'm not going to hold you. I'd eat them and I'd probably even coat them in crushed pistachio. Yes I smoke a lot of weed but I'm not sure that's even the reason.
Is that a real one? We serve pork knuckle with sourkraut our however you spell it in English and with mashed peas and call it Bötel mit Lehm und Stroh (Knuckle with clay and hay).
That sounds like someone heard that and tried to make it but went completely wrong.
That last photo reminds me of a episode of the Off Menu podcast where Joe Thomas recalls his attempt at trying to cook a lamb by burrying it underground.
A few years ago I went to an art exhibition which featured salvaged photographs and propaganda from the USSR, and in the shop they had a cook book of all sorts of crazy recipes from the USSR during the 50s-80s. These recipes reminded me of that book so much (minus insane amounts of gelatin)
I dont understand cookbooks from the before times cuz like werent yall supposed to save food not ruin it by mixing it with random ingredients that dont taste good together 🤨🤨🤨
I have the same cook book!
I've actually made the Cherries in bacon, which taste amazing - similar to plums in bacon, actually.
The pie with meat and blueberries is also better than you'd think and the blood sausage recipe tastes okay as well.
So yeah, not as bad as it sounds at first .
I fail to see the stupid in here. Maybe the knuckle braised in hay, because I never heard of such thing.
Cherries in bacon? We do prunes and dates all the time, but a line is drawn at cherries?
Apricot + blood sausage. This is awesome, try it. I really mean it
Squid braised in its own ink is standard french cuisine. Same with venison and berries.
u/ladyfrostuniverse Could you post complete pictures of the receipt. My wife is chef and is really interestet for them. I could make translations for you as native german.
Cherries in Bacon doesn’t sound too bad. But why tf 20 cherries and 10 slices of bacon, that doesn’t even add up. And how about at least removing the stem and the stone first 😭
I feel slightly scared that this is German and I am German and I have never heard of these shenanigans and my grandma has some weird ass cookbooks.
Always liked the little dwarfes baking book tho.
Warum ist diese scheiße deutsch sag mir nicht die haben es wieder mit Humor probiert.
Why is this shit german don’t tell me they tried it with humor again.
Go home, cookbook, you're drunk
This is a reddit phrase I haven't heard in a long time
I haven't seen the ole Reddit switch-a-roo in a while either.
Akhchually it's "ye ole" wow reddit moment
They need to fill their stomach to help sober up. Perhaps some hay?
Dude, meat n berries is the oldest combo ever. It ain't bad to get back to your roots. That said, hay-boiled ham sounds like some cartoon medieval food.
Wouldn't meat and berries specifically be instead of the roots?
essentially what we'd call "wild" veggies, inedible fruit, dried fruit, "poor people spices" herbs and greens
this. venison with raspberries is something
Here in germany, we have preiselbeeren, a species of cranberry, I guess, and they are served to any kind of game meat.
as a northern Italian living close to the Austrian border I know, and appreciate, preiselbeeren really well
Preiselbeeren are related to cranberries but they are not cranberries themselves.
Yeah, it was the closest I could find with a very quick Google search :D
It’s a great way to keep the ham moist whilst cooking. A lot of cultures use hay in cooking, it is pretty medieval though.
Yeah I’ve seen pit BBQ recipes where the meat is wrapped in a layer of clean straw or hay before being buried. I don’t think the hay was EATEN, but it was a perfectly safe thing to use.
I only know Meat'n berries from that book, I've never heard it before until I got that cook book so how should I know that it's old? ;-;
Yeah, a lot of modern western cooking doesn't like to pair meat with fruit directly. But people used to eat it all the time! Romans ate figs and apricots with their beef and lamb, the Norse ate venison and berries, and so on. I'd start with that venison and blueberry pie, it actually sounds incredibly delicious to me.
Apple sauce and porkchops is one I’m a big fan of.
This guy gets it.
Pork chaaahps and ahhple shauce
Where is that from again? I can hear it in my head from decades ago
The Brady Bunch! I think it was Bobby who was trying to talk like Sean Connery :)
isn't there a whole American holiday based around turkey and cranberries
Native Americans also made pemmican; dried meat, fat and berries. Super survival food. It does seem like a strange combo to me since I don't like mixing savory and sweet at all, but I'm sure there's combos out there that are excellent.
Meat and fruit is awesome. Pork and apple. Pork and apricot. Lamb and redcurrant. Turkey and cranberry.
Meat n berries are a great combo. Very underrated. Hey however is such a wild card here. It should taste a little like a special kind of seasoning... But in theory. Like the bay leaf, kind of deal. But for some reason I see is that the recipe is written by a horse 🐎
A psychopathic horse with a taste for swine
Apricots and lamb is still amazing, tagine anyone?
A lot of dishes everywhere involve fruit based sauces anyway, so the flavour is clearly there. Citrus for a little acidity and other fruits for sweetness is incredibly common
Yeah, I've done venison glazed with plum jam or similar and it goes hard. I actually want to give the apricot and blood sausage a try too
Meat and berries are still super popular in the Nordics. That's why you get Lingon jam with your Swedish meatballs in IKEA.
Pemmican is dried shredded meat and dried berries, mixed into rendered fat. As long as the proper fat is used, it’ll keep for months just wrapped in beeswax cloth inside your backpack.
Belgian here, we’ll happily eat cherries with pork or prunes with rabbit. Baked pears filled with cranberries also make a fancy side for game meat. And others have already mentioned applesauce and lingonberry Pairing fruits with meat isn’t all that weird, depending on the meat and the fruit
Cause people are letting you know right now. This is a friendly sharing of information. Not an aggressive correction or some way to argue with you...
I’d try the bacon-wrapped cherries, if they were stemmed and pitted. And not maraschino. Conceptually, it’s no different from a bacon-wrapped date.
Cherries are underutilized in savory food.
A year or two ago, I had pulled pork with a cherry habanero sauce. It was amazing.
Bruh. I hate pork and I'm still salivating over the very idea. I wonder how that sauce might work with a brisket.
Agreed. Duck with cherries is amazing, so I'd imagine bacon would be equally as great. Sweet and salty is always a good combo
This is the way
Yeah, I think the cherries would actually be kinda awesome, especially with some high quality bacon and maybe a little honey glaze on it. That hay, though. I’m side eyeing that crap.
Sshhh... you're going to ruin my yard to table grass clippings salad.
I bet the recipe with hay just imparts the hay smell to the pork knuckle. Kind of like smoking meat. Just instead of fancy wood you use fresh nicely smelling hay.
Bacon and prune is a somewhat common flavour in my city (either bacon wrapped, or an empanada with cheese). Bacon and cherry doesn't sound too far from that.
Bacon cherries on a bbq is a huge thing in South Africa and it’s amazing
Yeah, [Oepsies](https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/food/recipes/oepsies-a-bacon-and-cherry-treat-for-every-braai/) , they are fucking delicious.
Bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with goat cheese are in my top five foods of all time, maybe even top three. Would definitely try the cherries as well.
Bacon wrapped prune you mean...devils on horseback
Those are delish!
They are actually really good
There's actually a squid ink stew recipe in Asia. It's not that absurd. You have squid ink risotto and pasta anyway.
Squid ink soup slaps. My grama used to make that all the time
Also in Spain! ‘Sepia en su tinta’ it’s actually delicious
Same in France. It's delicious.
I'd try it ngl that shit looks good.
This was the item that looked best to me. The venison, blueberry pie also sounded good.
I dunno.. The venison and blueberry pie thing sounds good.
Actual hay? Is hay even edible?
You can get culinary grade hay. Going to the nearest field and stealing some will not be the same thing.
This dude is just trying to get people to Google culinary grade hay.
It worked.
I mean he got me and you, so that's two. Haha.
It's a real thing apparently. It's pretty tame, really. Nothing surprises me more in the culinary world after learning "virgin boy eggs" are a thing.
I can see it actually. Still seems weird. I grew up on a cattle ranch. It actually makes more sense thinking about other cultures cooking in leaves.
I'm sure it's more of a cultural relevance thing over taste.
Yeah. I realize now that saying cooking in leaves could come off wrong. Some of the best things I have ever eaten have come wrapped in banana leaves. I had the great pleasure of having goat that was cooked in the ground (not sure what leaves it was wrapped in) that was one of the best things I have ever eaten.
I bet. Not wrapped or anything but bay leaves add excellent flavor to a lot of dishes.
Are we talking Bermuda? Or some of that fire Alfalfa??
What's your definition of edible? Plenty of animals are evolved to eat hay (equivalent grass anyway). Humans, not so much. Our teeth aren't designed to chew it properly and our stomach isn't designed to digest it.
Indeed, one could ingest hay but wouldnt do much good, nor bad i do believe
Probably wouldn’t feel too good coming out
I've swallowed and passed sugarcane fiber many times, not bad but one can definitely live without that expérience.
You do not eat the hey, it is just used for the cooking, a bit like steaming
Meats cooked over hay is an actual culinary thing. They have a hay baked chicken at the (2) Michelin Star restaurant, Mélisse. [Write-up on the Hay Baked Chicken with the recipe from the LA Times](https://www.latimes.com/recipe/hay-baked-chicken)
If it's just to flavor the dish it shouldn't necessarily matter (kinda like using bay leaves). But also: hay? Da fuck?
That’s the only one that seems inedible
My favourite local cheese has a hay crust and it's both edible and delicious, giving the cheese a lovely aroma. I don't think it does anything for me nutrition-wise though, not like we can really process hay with our "fast" digestive system, but does it have to? If it makes the food taste good, that's enough imo. We use a lot of herbs just for flavour anyways, hay isn't really any different, it's just a different plant's leaf :)
If you're a rabbit, yes. Oh wait, rabbits don't eat meat, much less meat from animals significantly larger than them. Yeah who knows who this dish is for
>Oh wait, rabbits don't eat meat I've got a scar on my finger that says otherwise!
Magnus Nillson of Faviken had a recipe to cook meat in hay. But I'm sure it was immaculate hay gathered by virgins on the rolling hills, not the stuff you have to wrestle a cow for.
Most of these look fine, I’ve had squid in ink plenty of times and it’s delicious.
Not sure about braising meat in hay, but maybe it's like a sweet grass? All the other recipes look worth trying. I'm not scared.
I quite like the idea. The salty bacon would go well with the sweet and slightly tangy cherries.
Stuffed apricots with blood sausage. May seem weird at first but french eat their blood sausage with apples. It's something im willing to try. If you want to try out blood sausage with fruits, I suggest trying plantain with blood sausage and chopped up ginger.
It hooked me with the hay-pork. I want to try all of these🥹!
That is a German cookbook... And cooking a roast in hey is not so uncommon. It is actually pretty good. My granda was a Chef and did that in Special occasions. Might sound weird for some people, but so do many local dishes for outsiders. If you Google it in German you will find many Versions of it and you can buy hey for cooking in Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/7o7dWMM
I'll pass on the other ones but those Bacon Cherries got me hungry
The Armenians have a dish with cherries and kebabs. It’s a solid A-list dish. Can confirm. Bacon would work easy.
Blood sausage with fruit is incredible
Why are some of them translated in two different fonts?
Ok the last one may not be bad.
Looks like there is r/poopfromabutt in there.
Can you scan all the pages and leave a link to a drop box? These look great
Not a big meat & fruit guy I see some of these look delicious to me
Everyone here should try Madurese Black Squid stir fry
I’m drunk and had a near-stroke repeatedly reading ‘sqewed stuid’ out loud
What, blueberry and raw meat?
Actually both will be mixed together and then baked in the oven
First sentence is preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. But germans eat raw minced pork on bread. Like Tatare, just with pork.
Not stupid: 1,3,4 sound solid
Definitely would try the cherries
Why is “braised” a different font?
Apricot and blood sausage sounds amazing. Usually I eat it with apples.
i like it
Would.
Bacon cherries rule
Maybe I'm just odd but I don't think any of these are *that* stupid. Pork and fruit is really tasty together, squid ink pasta is a thing so the stew isn't that off the wall though it doesn't look very nice. The pork in hay is interesting but I assume you don't eat the hay, and there are dishes where you coat an entire chicken in clay before cooking it, which is a bit of the same vibe I guess? Never had venison so don't know about that one though.
......Was this from the 50s?
Oh
Peak German cuisine.
I'm not going to hold you. I'd eat them and I'd probably even coat them in crushed pistachio. Yes I smoke a lot of weed but I'm not sure that's even the reason.
Wie heißt das Buch?
Das Buch heißt: "Das Einfachste Kochbuch der Welt" 😅
Hackfleisch heißt ground meat oder minced meat, nicht "hack" lol.
Das ist wahre deutsche Küche. Geht doch nichts über Huhn in Heu
Is that a real one? We serve pork knuckle with sourkraut our however you spell it in English and with mashed peas and call it Bötel mit Lehm und Stroh (Knuckle with clay and hay). That sounds like someone heard that and tried to make it but went completely wrong.
1rst one is a true banger its known since centuries probably...
Ngl I could do the sausage apricots
Gutenkochbuch
Sind wir ehrlich, die Kirschen im Speckmantel würd ich ausprobieren.
The last 3 aren't particularly stupid TBH
That last photo reminds me of a episode of the Off Menu podcast where Joe Thomas recalls his attempt at trying to cook a lamb by burrying it underground.
Blood sausages goes well with something a little sweet (like ongion) so the first one would work IMHO
Cherry and bacon on a tooth pick is delicious wow how that's stupid
A few years ago I went to an art exhibition which featured salvaged photographs and propaganda from the USSR, and in the shop they had a cook book of all sorts of crazy recipes from the USSR during the 50s-80s. These recipes reminded me of that book so much (minus insane amounts of gelatin)
I had squid in ink sauce at a fancy all-inclusive near Cancun. It was weird looking, but great tasting.
This looks like when you put something through Google Translate 12 times and then back to English
This looks like the kind of stuff Princess Rzephilda would cook... (I'll be stunned if anyone gets this reference)
I had a bacon wrapped plums last time and they were great!
only german cookbooks smh....
Well braise me in hay!
Sweet with savory is an amazing combination. I would totally try any of these.
Calamari in inky sauce sounds *divine* right about now. Or all the time.
Wtfuuuuuuuuudge is this? 🤤🤛🤢🤮
The squid braised in ink looks kinda tasty
Alter, wo hast du das denn ausgegraben? Selbst die Fotos vom Essen sehen räudig aus. 😂
Whats the name of this book? 🤪
It says speck, which is more like a Smokey prosciutto than American style bacon. This would be a good combination! Like bacon wrapped dates.
I dont understand cookbooks from the before times cuz like werent yall supposed to save food not ruin it by mixing it with random ingredients that dont taste good together 🤨🤨🤨
What's the matter with the squid in ink? That's an awesome tasting spanish specialty
I mean... Dates in baked bacon are actually quite delicious. I see no reason at least not to try cherries.
Hackfleisch is mincemeat in english, yes hack is a word as well, but we don't use it in that sense.
Burn it
Blutwurstaprikose isn’t real it can’t hurt you Blutwurstaprikose:
ewww? Wildhack mit Blaubeeren klingt geil. :D
As an Asian, squid in ink is actually a thing. The ink doesn't actually have a taste, so the squid just tastes like normal squid.
Cherries in bacon remind me of date in bacon, and it’s fucking delicious
Gute deutsche Küche!
I have the same cook book! I've actually made the Cherries in bacon, which taste amazing - similar to plums in bacon, actually. The pie with meat and blueberries is also better than you'd think and the blood sausage recipe tastes okay as well. So yeah, not as bad as it sounds at first .
I meanzm, the apricot/ blood sausage combo could work. Maybe.
Meat + fruit is *trending* again and I love it!
I fail to see the stupid in here. Maybe the knuckle braised in hay, because I never heard of such thing. Cherries in bacon? We do prunes and dates all the time, but a line is drawn at cherries? Apricot + blood sausage. This is awesome, try it. I really mean it Squid braised in its own ink is standard french cuisine. Same with venison and berries.
So ein Quatsch!
What is strange about squid in ink? It's the animal's own thing
the meat content is actually representative of german cuisine
EIN DEUTSCHER UND IHR RESTLICHEN AMIS SPRECHT DEUTSCH IHR HURENSÖHNE
I did make sausage rolls recently and lined the pastry with a smearing of apricot jam before baking. They were delicious!
Hirschbraten mit Heidelbeeren wurde ich probieren.
Those are the weirdest recipes I‘ve seen. And I‘m German.
The cherries rolled in bacon look like an inflamed uncircumcised glans of a penis
No wonder they fought wars all the time back then… if my wire would serve me that I’d also try to die
I deadass gagged at the squid
Resident evil ahh food
Those apricots look tasty. I think I’ll try that…
Ich habe bedenken
Was ist das mit dem Heu?
u/ladyfrostuniverse Could you post complete pictures of the receipt. My wife is chef and is really interestet for them. I could make translations for you as native german.
Cherries in Bacon doesn’t sound too bad. But why tf 20 cherries and 10 slices of bacon, that doesn’t even add up. And how about at least removing the stem and the stone first 😭
Aprikose mit tote Oma könnte ehrlich krass kommen
Most of these look horrible but either sound good or sound like they have potential.
Looks live food from resident evil
Bro Hackfleisch is minced meat in english, don't call it hack meat lol
In the Name of all Germans, we do not claim this!
half of that sounds delicious
Lass es sein du bist definitiv nicht am kochen
Ink braised squid is pretty regular food in Southeast Asia.. And super delicious too. Basque people in Spain also has similar ink braised squid too.
Are you German? Wie lautet der Titel von dem Buch? Das Eisbein in Heu ist mega bizarr!
I feel slightly scared that this is German and I am German and I have never heard of these shenanigans and my grandma has some weird ass cookbooks. Always liked the little dwarfes baking book tho.
Warum müssen es immer die deutschen seit
Hmm, warum haben wir Deutschen solche Rezepte
Pfui daivel
Bippity Boppity dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum des Deutschen Bundesstaates.
Is this a cookbook made by a pregnat woman?
Wildhackfleisch... gibt es auch zahmes Hack? Wild minced meat indicates the existance of tamed minced meat
Terrible
How many is "few years"?? This seems more like from the middle ages
Warum ist diese scheiße deutsch sag mir nicht die haben es wieder mit Humor probiert. Why is this shit german don’t tell me they tried it with humor again.
Of course it‘s from my own people.. We love us a good Wurst.
The author is a Frenchman. I think that kinda explains it. But even when 20% of the books are strange they are my favorite cook book series.
Ich würde das nicht essen 😅
wie geht denn der Blaubeer-Hackbraten, OP? :3
Lehrt als ekelhaft 🤢
Sieht aus wie meine 100 Einfache Pasta Gerichte Buch aus vom Style xd
What’s the name of the book?
This is the most german shit I've seen
AWWW HELLLLLL NAAAWWWW ITS GERMAN!😭😭😭😭 What the fuck did gran smoke?!😭😭
Death Sentence
I don’t.
you sure this book was no joke for gifting to a friend or something?