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Feb 8, 2005 10:46
19 yrs ago
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German term

Schmalzbrot

German to English Art/Literary Cooking / Culinary
hello everyone!

Mittags aß sie ein mit Syrup versüßtes Schmalzbrot.

bread and dripping sweetened with syrup???

us-english

preferably without the word lard in it

thanks!!
Proposed translations (English)
2 +3 bread and dripping(s)
3 bread spread with lard and sweetened with (corn) syrup
3 -1 Fatbread

Discussion

Hilary Davies Shelby Feb 8, 2005:
sorry - that should be "with the translation IN brackets" in my previous sentence.
Hilary Davies Shelby Feb 8, 2005:
Agree with Nick on "bread and dripping" - i would actually be tempted to put your own suggestion, Gunilla. Is there a way of putting the German original with the translation brackets, so that the audience knows it's a German speciality?
Ute Bartsch Feb 8, 2005:
In connection with bread, Schmalz usually refers to "lard" in Germany (not to the more general dripping). And again, if German: syrup may be a kind of sugar beet syrup here which is not so sweet (yes, I saw my parents eating this...).
Jonathan MacKerron Feb 8, 2005:
As this is being translated from German I doubt that it is Americans who are eating this stuff
Nick Somers (X) Feb 8, 2005:
Not the dripping -- my dad was also an aficionado -- but the mix. :-~
Claire Cox Feb 8, 2005:
Stomach-churning it may be, but my mum, to this day, still insists on having her toast and dripping with the fat from the turkey as her Boxing Day treat - yuk! Never heard of it eaten with syrup, though - maybe it's a specifically US thing...
Siegfried Armbruster Feb 8, 2005:
bread and dripping(s) Schmalzbrot n Langenscheidt
Nick Somers (X) Feb 8, 2005:
Bread and dripping would have been my suggestion. It sounds stomach-churning. Here's a site which gives GB/US equivalence. It suggests "drippings".
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/foodx.html

Proposed translations

+3
1 hr
Selected

bread and dripping(s)

Muret-Sanders

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Note added at 1 hr 13 mins (2005-02-08 12:00:03 GMT)
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\"lard sandwich\" gets over 300 googles, gagggggg

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Note added at 1 hr 15 mins (2005-02-08 12:02:32 GMT)
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\"slice of bread spread with schmalz\"

Webster for schmalz \"the rendered fat of poultry\"
Peer comment(s):
agree davidgreen : lard sandwich, hilarious! drippings isn't US but a good possibility is "bread spread with schmalz" and possibly afterwards "lard" in parenthesis
30 mins
yes, lard is indeed an unappetizing word in English
agree Hilary Davies Shelby : definitely what we would say in UK - and its actually NICE ;-) - dont know what the US would make of it?
11 hrs
agree Friderike Butler : Store bought lard in the US is not like Schmalz at all as it is the cleaned animal fat, whereas Schmalz is flavored and many times includes spices such as browned onions. I actually like it, but have never heard of combining it with sweet syrup.
1 day 3 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks everyone! i had a hard time deciding. i opted for schmalz, but my editor didn't like it ... so ... thanks again!! gz"
-1
35 mins

Fatbread

aber versüsst mit Sirup? Typisch Amerika!
Peer comment(s):
neutral Jonathan MacKerron : references?
35 mins
disagree davidgreen : I think this is just one person's literal translation at http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005243.html
1 hr
neutral writeaway : Typisch Amerika! ? for a German dish? how do you know where someone ate this dish-maybe they were on holiday in Hungary :-) agree with Jonathan-how about a reference.
8 hrs
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1 hr

bread spread with lard and sweetened with (corn) syrup

You would have to specify what kind of syrup for the (albeit small) American market for this but bread smeared/served with lard or bread with a lard spread should cover this.

I particularly like: http://www.thomas-scharnowski.de/Kleinhegnach/impressions_fr...
"Schmalzbrot (bread with grease of pigs with some chive)."

by the way, my girlfriend's english and has actually BOUGHT drippings to heat up and dip bread into. Igitt
Reference:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/austria/restaurants.html

http://www.ueberlingen-bodensee.de/home/menu/body_menu.html

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