Old customs
What’s behind popular New Year’s Eve recipes
In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we reflect on well-known and tried-and-tested recipes. Traditional recipes used to be written by farmers' wives, landladies, housewives and commoners. Numerous New Year's Eve dishes are reminiscent of the change of servants.
Let's look back to the last century - there was no digitalization like today! Recipes and customs - including those for Christmas and New Year's Eve - were passed on orally or written down by hand. Gudrun Steinkellner knows all about this - she lives on the Rainsberg and has been collecting old, handwritten recipes for decades. "Most of them date back to the mid-19th century," says the 65-year-old from Lavanttal, whose recipe collection stretches from 1843 to 1930. She has already tried out more than 1200 of these old dishes and collected them in her four cookbooks.
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