Magdeburg • Germany is expected to have average sweet and cherry harvests, but could be slightly better than last year if the weather does not bring any unpleasant surprises to farmers. This was reported by the dpa agency, citing industry representatives.
Last year, according to the Federal Statistical Office, 36.8 thousand tons of cherries (German Süßkirschen – “sweet cherry”) and 13.2 thousand tons of cherries (German Sauerkirschen – “sour cherry”) were harvested in Germany. 11 percent below 2019, but 12 percent above the 10-year average.
Cherry picking this year began almost three weeks later – in mid-June compared to the end of May last year. This is caused by an unusually cold spring with April frosts, which caused the trees to start blooming a couple of weeks later. The harvest will end in August, when the late varieties of cherries ripen.
Time to harvest cherries (and cherries). Photos
What affects the taste and aroma of cherries and cherries
Record forecasts do not promise, but they please farmers. “A crop that is too good is always bad,” says Roland Richter from Franconian Switzerland, a region in northeastern Bavaria. According to him, in this case, store shelves are overflowing, prices are low, and the farmer still has a lot of work. Moderate yields have a good effect on the taste and smell of cherries, agronomist Hans Schilling echoes the farmer: “When fewer berries ripen on a tree, they have more intense flavor and aroma.”
Many farmers protect their fruit trees with canopies with a special film from birds, as well as in case of heavy rains, from which already ripe cherries and cherries can crack and quickly deteriorate.
The main region for the cultivation of cherries in Germany is the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. In turn, most cherries are harvested in Rhineland-Palatinate. Prices, depending on the variety and season, usually range from 4 to 8 euros per kilogram.
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Black forest cherry cake
The recipe for the Black Forest cherry cake (German: Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) was invented over a hundred years ago. Now it is not only a kind of visiting card of this popular tourist region, but also one of the most beloved in Germany. Various other names are also used in Russian – Black Forest, Black Forest, Black Forest and even Black Forest.
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Black forest cherry cake
Chocolate sponge cake with whipped cream, cherries, cherry schnapps is a kind of national confectionery heritage of Germany. Every two years in the Black Forest there is even a festival for professionals and amateurs to determine the best of the best masters, but last year it had to be canceled, or rather postponed.
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Black forest cherry cake
However, the pandemic continues, so the festival was decided not to be postponed anymore and was organized online. Anyone could register on the website www.kirschtorte.de. Then they received in the mail the recipe and the necessary ingredients from regional producers from the Black Forest – with the exception of fresh eggs, as well as the access code for the online workshop, which took place on Sunday 25 April.
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Black forest cherry cake
The photographs of the dpa news agency in this gallery were taken during, so to speak, the dress rehearsal of this online confectionery seminar, in which our old acquaintance, the chef of the Engel Hotel in the Black Forest Todtnauberg, Freddy Boch, played the main role. He was already the hero of our publication in 2015 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the invention of the recipe.
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Black forest cherry cake
Last Sunday at 14:00, the festival participants in their kitchens began to work under his leadership. Photos of their cherry masterpieces then had to be posted on Instagram under the #kirschtortenfestival tag. The cake with the most likes will be the winner. The main prize is a weekend in Todtnauberg for two people.
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Black forest cherry cake
Who came up with this recipe and where? There are different versions, but the most common one says that the birthplace of the cherry cake is not the Black Forest, but the Rhineland, or rather Bad Godesberg, now one of the districts of Bonn. Josef Keller, a pastry chef from the Swabian city of Riedlingen, worked here in the Arend cafe. It is believed that in 1915 it was he who first baked and served such a cake to the visitors.
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Black forest cherry cake
Later, Joseph Keller moved to Lake Constance and opened his own business there, where a very high-calorie and very tasty cake also came to taste. It was from here that his victorious march began around the globe. One of the pastry chef’s students kept the original handwritten recipe. It is now stored in a pastry shop in the Black Forest town of Triberg.
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Black forest cherry cake
According to another version, the Black Forest cake was invented in the Swabian city of Tübingen, 15 years later, in 1930. The main idea was generally known in this region long before the appearance of the famous cake.
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Black forest cherry cake
Canned cherries with cream have been served here as a dessert for a very long time, sometimes adding a little cherry schnapps to it. That is, the filling of the Black Forest cake is, one might say, a folk recipe, but the cake itself was still born as a result of an ingenious confectionery enlightenment.
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Black forest cherry cake
In the current competition, the main thing is definitely not a victory, but participation. The main winners have already become those who were able to taste these works of confectionery art – of course, immediately after the photos were taken for Instagram. The collection of likes is still ongoing.
Author: Maxim Nelyubin
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