Mai Fest & Happy Anniversary!
The Ladies at Mairecipes.com are celebrating one year and we want to thank you for your help in making recipes personal again. We launched our site in May 2007, and our anniversary happens to coincide with a widely known celebration in Germany, and throughout the world, called Maifest (Mayfest). Maifest is one of our oldest traditions, the celebration of nature?s reawakening after a long, cold winter. And for some of us winter?s been longer than for others.
Maibock
In true German style, the food is plentiful and beer and wine flow freely. So, celebrate with us! Why not try a “Maibowle” (May punch), a refreshing mixture of white wine, champagne and woodruff or “Maibock”, a German beer brewed only during this season. Since May is the start of the picnic season, why not try some delicious German breads, cheeses, pickles and cold cuts accompanied by some of our highlighted summer salads. Danke schoen! Cheers!
(May Punch) Maibowle
Find this and other authentic recipes at www.germanfoods.org
Preparation:
Place in a bowl:
- 12 sprigs of young woodruff or Waldmeister (Waldmeister is an old-world herb, a small plant with white blossoms. In Germany it grows in the forests. Unfortunately, the variety which grows wild in the US is not usable for flavoring. However, as a cultivated herb, this decorative plant may be grown in a shady corner of an herb garden. It should be used for flavoring only in May when the new leaves are tender. When this herb is cut up and soaked in wine it will produce the distinctive May wine taste.)
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- bottle of Mosel wine or Saar-Ruwer wine or other similar German dry white wines
- 1 cup brandy
Cover the mixture for 30 minutes, no longer. Remove the sweet woodruff. Stir contents of bowl thoroughly and pour over a block of ice in a punch bowl.
Add:
- 3 bottles of Mosel or Saar-Ruwer wine or other similar German dry white wines
- 1 quart carbonated water or German sparkling wine
Presentation:
Thinly sliced oranges, sticks of pineapple and most appropriately, sprigs of sweet woodruff may be used to decorate the May punch.
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