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A custom, an herb, a bit of smoke and a case of unexplained

Mix village is yes (except People, Blog members and loyal readers, of course) the unanimous city dwellers think basically not really much going on and it surprised probably no one that occasions for gathering in the presence of food and drink a kind of silk thread in the rural gloom and thus are always welcome. And so it happened many years ago to determine in a cloudy autumn that bored eggs were sitting in the middle age, a reason to to find events.
All weddings for friends and relatives had long been, and Babybepinkeln, birthdays have been celebrated for a long time, only the round and the silver weddings at all at home were not in sight. What to do?

"I got it!" called a smart guy determines the round after several minutes of silence of the brooding, jumped up and enjoyed the impatient silence and the curious eyes of the round.
"From now on half the celebrated silver wedding!"
"Nah, that can not do that!" said one of the notorious skeptic.
"The wedding is paid just and the first reserves to be made for the silver wedding, which can not afford "
But our friend was smart of them to not be put off, and had the next inspiration
" Then we share the same tasting. The couple provides the premises and the drinks and all bring something to eat! " He began to count, and had of course in no time the pair determines which would be next to it.
" know And you what, we say no storm sound, just the booth and invite all who were at the wedding! "
" Mhhh " said another caller
" and what is that be ne wedding? Bronze wedding as a precursor to silver would be logical, but it sounds stupid tooootal " Unanimous
" Marriage has cursed 7th Year but over, but everyday life can be refreshed, determined by a bit of spice. could go in the direction, " General pause
" Salt wedding ????" General rejection
"I have it" then our clever Meier said the last time in this history, while putting a parsley potato filling on the plate. ..*

Well, and so the custom shaped to the present day in many parts of Germany. I am the smart guy (or was it a woman? ") of the round very grateful, because I find myself now in this very average age at which I would be bored almost in the cold season to death if not as slow the parsley weddings of friends catchment would hold o)
is now the parsley pair usually well prepared and even if only marginally, involved in the planning. Tension is always the moment when making the wedding album around and we enjoyed a good measure of schadenfreude at the photos of those at the wedding of a possible inappropriate hairstyle, an impossible spectacle or just had an outfit that is a colored handle to the The toilet is like. But as this is now. Unfortunately, find 95% instead of the parsley High times between November and January, to 99.9% on a Monday, so that one usually does not remain too long on such festivals. But it is always nice.

The testimony of the marriage of brother and sister in law came up again recently to zwölfeinhalbten time, so my Lord Susan and I took the organization scepter in hand, and the participants, including food for the festival drumming together. Our contribution was a very tasty, but unfortunately not 100% complete satisfaction successful
duck pate

But first the recipe for 2 pies forms:

500g duck meat, diced
2 teaspoon pickling salt (dissolved in little warm water)
50 ml Port wine
1 teaspoon green pepper, pounded
5 juniper berries, crushed
1 strip of untreated orange peel, finely cut
1 bay leaf

200 g pork
250 g of fat bacon at a time
8 thin slices of fat bacon
diced 3 large onions in butter sweats

50 ml Port wine
1 teaspoon green peppercorns, crushed

1 Duck breast about 250 g, halved lengthwise, pickled, smoked, fried, such as here

duck meat with salt, port wine and Mix spices and marinate 24 hours. Aptropfen,-pat, remove coarse spices. Pork and bacon roll great mix with the duck meat, 30-60 min freeze.

wrap Meanwhile, the duck breasts with thin slices of bacon.

the meat cubes with the scorched, the cooled onions twice through the fine disk of a qualified mincer, cool place.
1 / 3 the mass and freeze again slightly in Blender to a fine farce editors.
knead together with the rest of Port wine and peppercorns. The forms to fill half, duck breast drauflegen fill in the rest of the crowd.
The pies cook at 180 ° C cool down, leave. Serve with a quince chutney.

So far so good. Unfortunately, while baking was pretty much fat from the ground, so that the pie shrunk, thus something was too tight and I had the financial costs can save the bacon. And even though the pie was pretty tasty anyway, I would still like to know about the pies professionals, why this should have located and how I can avoid next time.

* The story was pure fiction to blog purpose and has in Internet encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia lost nothing