Pretzels?

[coloradoclyde]

Sodium carbonate is also known as "baked soda" a historical name....I wonder if this has been mistaken in a modern context to be "baking soda" when reading some recipes?

 

[coloradoclyde]

 

[Coot]

Great illustration - thanks for posting! Any idea what kind of construction of the shoes that the man on crutches is wearing? They almost look like the uppers are woven from leather straps??? Possibly patterned cloth rags???

 

[coloradoclyde]

No idea...But they almost look woven. :hmm:

Like Russian shoes....Bast shoes woven from birch bark.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Here is a blog about Bast shoes...

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.nl/2012/05/bast-shoes.html

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Ammonium Carbonate, or Salt of Hartshorn, is said to predate the use of Sodium Carbonate.

EUREKA!

:bow:

LD

 

[omarick1948]

:cursing: OK!OK!!.......so when were Nacho's invented???

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[Wes/Tex]

:cursing: OK!OK!!.......so when were Nacho's invented???

:blah:

1943 by Ignacio Anaya who made them for military wives at the Rudolpho de Los Santo Restaurant in the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Mexico. The ladies were spouses of servicemen from Fort Duncan located outside Eagle Pass which is just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican town. Just something Texans would know! See what comes from harnessing useless knowledge!?! :rotf: With nachos and margaritas, who cares about pretzels!? :shocked2: :haha:

 

[Nativearizonan]

Nice picture. Do you have a date for when this was painted? Maybe a link to where you got it from?

 

[coloradoclyde]

Here ya go... :wink:

http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/04__W__t__G/04/03/08/05-Pretzels.html

 

[coloradoclyde]

Here is a still life from Clara Peeters, Antwerp Blegium circa 1594

And another....

 

[coloradoclyde]

Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde’s The Baker, 1681. Pretzels are shown with various other types of bread.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Jan van Bijlert - Pulling of the Pretzel circa 1630-1640

 

[coloradoclyde]

The Last Supper, about 1030”“40, Unknown. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; 9 1/8 x 6 5/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig VII 1, fol. 38

 

[coloradoclyde]

Raphaelle Peale: "Fruit, Pitcher, and Pretzel" 1816

 

[Nativearizonan]

The Last Supper, about 1030”“40, Unknown. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; 9 1/8 x 6 5/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig VII 1, fol. 38

Jesus Christ! Who'd of guessed. They must have got the eucharist all wrong; it should have been beer and pretzels. Nice peace sign, BTW.

 

[Nativearizonan]

Here ya go... :wink:

http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/04__W__t__G/04/03/08/05-Pretzels.html

from the article:

the earliest recorded evidence of pretzels is their appearance in the crest of German bakers' guilds in the year 1111.

That crest shows above the window in the painting. That is about as good a proof that pretzels were well established by then, at least in Germany, as you could ask for.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Jesus Christ! Who'd of guessed. They must have got the eucharist all wrong; it should have been beer and pretzels. Nice peace sign, BTW.

Over the centuries there have been many artistic renditions of the last supper....(none are originals)...Each artist or religion has put their own spin on it....

What you call a "peace sign" is the Latin Gesture of Benediction. This gesture, in which his first two fingers and his thumb are extended and his third and fourth finger are closed, is among the most frequently occurring of Christ's hand gestures in Christian art. It emerged as a sign of benediction (or blessing) in early Christian and Byzantine art, and its use continued through the Medieval period, and into the Renaissance.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Here are some more theologically themed artistic references to pretzels......

During the Middle Ages the church’s fasting requirements for Lent were stricter than they are today, forbidding the intake of all nonaquatic animal by-products, including eggs, lard, milk, and butter. Because pretzels could be made with a simple recipe that avoided these banned ingredients, they soon became associated with the season.

Detail from The Battle between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel, 1559, showing the gaunt Lady Lent (a man cross-dressed as a nun) riding a cart bearing traditional Lenten fare: pretzels, waffles, and mussels. He holds, like a lance, a baker’s peel topped with two herring.

The Last Supper, from a Gospel Lectionary made in the Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, ca. 1150. Morgan Library, New York: MS G.44, fol. 80.

Martin Schaffner (German, 1478”“1548), Last Supper, 1515.

St. Bartholomew, from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ca. 1440. Morgan Library, New York: PML M.917, fol. 228.

 

[tenngun]

I wonder that some of the above paintings of pretzels are not in fact pretzels but a fried sweet bread. Townsend did a cooking vid with his daughter Ivy where in they made a doughnut like batter that was fried in circles that looked like the bread above when cooked. :idunno: