My Great Great Grandparents
making Split Pea Soup and Rye Bread
on a Wintery Day in January1820
A Soup That Remembers
My Great Great Grandparents
making Split Pea Soup and Rye Bread
on a Wintery Day in January1820
I like to Time Travel...
It's January 1820 in Steinsfurt, Germany, winter settles over the village
with its hush of snow and chimney smoke,
We return to the rhythm of old German kitchens —
where bread was baked in brotforms and soup simmered slowly over the hearth.
In this issue,
we gather around the table with my great great grandparents, the Streib family
as they prepare split pea soup and rye bread on Backtag, the traditional baking day.
It’s a story of warmth in the cold, of hands that work and hearts that remember,
and of how one humble meal could feed a family, a season, and a create a legacy
I love to this day and I know you do as well.
Cooking Soup or an Eintopf in
1820 Germany
There were no gas or even wood stoves
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Thinking about my grandma's kitchen when I was 8 years old
and the smell of bacon and onions cooking,
and now I wonder if she thought about her mom and older sisters cooking
and on and on.
I wanted to do a little time traveling in the past,
I have a friend that helped me write a story of
what it may have been like for my Great Great Grandpa
Phillip Streib and
wife Eva
cooking split pea soup
(Erbsensuppe)
for their 8 children
The Story depicts a day in the life in January, 1820
Steinsfurt, Germany
A snowy day, the kids have their chores, It's "Backtag" baking day,
and the mother is making bread dough to take to the town baker,
Bacon and root vegetables are brought up from the cellar and the soup is started.
The soup cooks all day in a kettle over the fire,
Then it is time to make the dinner, and vegetables are brought from the cellar and Split peas are scooped out of a sack from the harvest
After a long day of work
just to survive the winter,
Her recipes, culture and cooking styles that were brought over from Germany. How they evolved when she came to America in the early 1900s and settled in Portland, Oregon on the west coast of the United States. Over 100 recipes
Bonus recipes with step by step color pictures
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Rest your laptop,tablet or phone
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and follow the recipes with pictures to help.
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Vintage German Postcard replica's to use as bookmarks or to mail.
Biography of my grandma
Emma Block From Germany with Love tells the story of my grandma, Emma Block, growing up in a little town in Baden/ Würtemberg, Germany near Heidelberg named Steinsfurt. Then at the age of 15 immigrating to the United States, taking a train with one of her sisters and brothers to Hamburg and sailing the Atlantic with other hope filled Germans wanting to make a life in the "New World". It was not easy but with good values learned in her German upbringing made a full life, had a wonderful family with lots of fun and celebration including the great German meals.
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