DOI issue:
No. 364 (July 1923)
DOI article:Haberlandt, Arthur: About cake and butter moulds
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0058
ABOUT CAKE AND BUTTER MOULDS
on the graves cf the departed; the
“ Stritzeln," oblong butter cakes plaited
co resemble the heathen offering of a piece
of plaited hair to the tombs of the dead, a
When the symbolic meaning of certain
forms had long been forgotten inventive
minds were not slow to find others to re-
place them. The eighteenth century seems
to have been most prolific in such "artists."
It was then that arose those masterly
costumed figures, most elaborately got up
and loaded with delicate ornamentation.
The variety of forms in which honey-cakes
are met with on the Continent is indeed
truly astonishing. 0000
In the village household a large amount
of ingenuity was spent on butter-moulds.
Butter to the Alpine villagers became the
symbol of blessing, and in the same way
that the Egyptians saw this embodied in
bread and grain on certain days, especially
on Easter Sunday, the peasants used to
flock together from far and near to have
their butter consecrated in the church.
Even in the middle of last century a writer
describes how in a valley near Salzburg he
saw villagers bringing their butter for this
HONEY-CAKE MOULDS IN THE
FORM OF GLOVES (MUSEUM
FUR VOLKSKUNDE, VIENNA)
purpose and what a multiplicity of forms
he observed—the Easter lamb, the child
Jesus, Jonah and the whale, and hundreds
of other skilfully manipulated figures. 0
Country people far from the busy life of
cities preserve these traditions with pecu-
liar faithfulness. The honey-cakes of the
fair booths are not only made after the
conventional recipes of the Middle Ages,
but their origin reveals itself by their
appearing on certain fixed festival days
and by their symbolic forms. They now
IX. CAKE MOULD OF COPPER, TIN LINED X. PANCAKE SPOON OR SHOVEL XI. BAVARIAN HONEY-CAKE
TYROL EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DATE I73O, FROM STYRIA MOULD, DATED I70Q
(MUSEUM FUR VOLKSKUNDE, VIENNA)
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on the graves cf the departed; the
“ Stritzeln," oblong butter cakes plaited
co resemble the heathen offering of a piece
of plaited hair to the tombs of the dead, a
When the symbolic meaning of certain
forms had long been forgotten inventive
minds were not slow to find others to re-
place them. The eighteenth century seems
to have been most prolific in such "artists."
It was then that arose those masterly
costumed figures, most elaborately got up
and loaded with delicate ornamentation.
The variety of forms in which honey-cakes
are met with on the Continent is indeed
truly astonishing. 0000
In the village household a large amount
of ingenuity was spent on butter-moulds.
Butter to the Alpine villagers became the
symbol of blessing, and in the same way
that the Egyptians saw this embodied in
bread and grain on certain days, especially
on Easter Sunday, the peasants used to
flock together from far and near to have
their butter consecrated in the church.
Even in the middle of last century a writer
describes how in a valley near Salzburg he
saw villagers bringing their butter for this
HONEY-CAKE MOULDS IN THE
FORM OF GLOVES (MUSEUM
FUR VOLKSKUNDE, VIENNA)
purpose and what a multiplicity of forms
he observed—the Easter lamb, the child
Jesus, Jonah and the whale, and hundreds
of other skilfully manipulated figures. 0
Country people far from the busy life of
cities preserve these traditions with pecu-
liar faithfulness. The honey-cakes of the
fair booths are not only made after the
conventional recipes of the Middle Ages,
but their origin reveals itself by their
appearing on certain fixed festival days
and by their symbolic forms. They now
IX. CAKE MOULD OF COPPER, TIN LINED X. PANCAKE SPOON OR SHOVEL XI. BAVARIAN HONEY-CAKE
TYROL EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DATE I73O, FROM STYRIA MOULD, DATED I70Q
(MUSEUM FUR VOLKSKUNDE, VIENNA)
38