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Calendar pages - March 2011

"First of March, Mädsche binn the joke!"

the past, women wore aprons at work (on the Rhine Hesse: joke).
When I was little, I was always one, except Sundays. Because
again in March to start work on the field and in the garden, was the first March "Schürzentag. Boy "womanizer" sneaks up from behind and pulled the girl on the apron loops. They triumphed:
"First of March, Mädsche binn the joke!" I remember that I had on that day several times to tie my apron again.

Links: I am - apron wearer anno1960

is soon Fassenacht

In a few days Fassenacht enters the decisive phase. Now parades, masked balls and meetings are booming. And the Kreppelkaffee is not too short.
A "Kreppel is a fat pastry with a lot of sugar around it and a" shot "jelly inside it. Kreppel there with us from 11.11. longer in some bakeries still a bit - until Ash Wednesday.
for us, too, there are Kreppel. However, not the large, traditional. I prefer to bake the small, crispy cheese balls and I hope they go through as Kreppel.

Here you are, take a seat!

majoRahn's Fassnacht-Kreppel

250 g Quark
1 egg
1 tablespoon soft butter
2 tablespoons lemon sugar, see here
( if no lemon sugar is present, then 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon peel) stir all




250 g flour, mix 1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder

well into a smooth, firm dough (Fig. 1)
This mass can form 16 small balls, in which one can incorporate into the middle of blackberry jam or another (Figure 2)

can get hot in a small pot about 250 grams of fat, and fry the balls in it.
respect they will brown very quickly. In between, contact. mix

powdered sugar with a teaspoon of cinnamon and seven on the "Kreppel.
Tastes delicious with vanilla sauce.

majoRahn's Flower of the Month:
Celandine - Ranunculus ficaria

This little flower is driving early on their shiny leaves from the soil. In times where you could not buy any fresh fruit or vegetables in the business, their early green was eagerly awaited. The young leaves are vitamin C-containing and were used against the dreaded scurvy.
grows in nature like the plant on moist, rich meadows and the forest. It proliferates very strong. Not so, however, her grown sisters that are called:

'Brazen Hussey', deep yellow flowers with dark red foliage AMP programs
'Dusky Maiden' green leaves with silvery spots and dark center
"Flore Pleno" pretty double flowers
"Orange" strong coppery orange color
"Primrose" bright yellow flowers, which become lighter, almost white to be.

yet must I wait for the little flowers but the leaves are already there. This morning I had
harvested outside in the garden herbs and a few fresh Celandine leaves. So I have stirred a delicious cream. I have found a suitable name for it:

Käsefuß of herbal ball

herbal ball
2 hands full of all first Green herbs from the garden and nature - finely chopped 200 g cream cheese
-
well drained 100 g yoghurt, 3.5% fat, drained well.
stirring, season with (lemons) salt and pepper .
a few walnuts (or sunflower seeds), roasted without fat and chop. Cold will make and give to the cream.

Käsefüße
150 g butter 200 g grated
Emmenthaler
250 g flour, 1 / 2 tsp baking powder 100g yoghurt

3.5% salt, pepper
egg yolk for brushing.

a dough and roll out 5 mm thin. Feet cut out and bake on a baking sheet at 200 ° 15 minutes. The cream
shape with a ice cream scoop into a ball and cheese-feet cause around it.

date tips for March

catch a game in Rheinhessen, again the "external events" on.
One of them had I rausgepickt:

In the series "Wednesdays, 18 clock in Rheinhessen
spring in New Bamberg
walk through the beautiful castle village to Höllberg . Of oyster beds, flowering cowbells to aqua vitis.
Location: Parking lot at city hall, the moat 55 546 Neu-Bamberg
registration is not required, costs 5 €


Another tip leads back to Frankfurt by
Like every year this year, the rare exchange in Frankfurt. Date: 17 - 20 March - a must for plant hunters / inside. Details can be found here:
Palm Garden in Frankfurt - Garden 2011

still sprouts

sprout the herbs while in the Garden, but on the windowsill to grow also: Sprouting Seeds of cotton wool. They can conjure up a pretty pre-Easter table decoration. One need only an empty egg crate, is separated from the lid. This half-whipped eggs, cotton, seeds.
The small portions are pretty practical. Since the Green will go directly from hand to mouth. Or take a cheese sandwich. And on the windowsill in the kitchen waiting replenishment.

Easter is only next month. And since we are determined again - maybe with lots of colorful Easter eggs.

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Nature provides the best proof that life goes on
:
germinating, budding, growing, passing

and blossoming again.

Paul Wilson