"Ulrike Westphal" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Charles Perry" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > Dick Adams wrote:
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> > > Do you think this bread looks like cornbread?
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> >
> > Well, maybe not cornbread as in bread made from corn. But, it
> > probably looks like korn bread as in bread made with whole or
> > almost whole grains.
> >
> > Those old Germanic bakers were always telling the cookbook
> > authors that rrrreal Pumpernickle had korn (whole grain)in it and
> > the cookbook authors went along and added corn(maize)meal to the
> > recipes that they (cookbook authora)invented. There is no
> > putting the genie back in the bottle despite the best efforts of
> > the Pumpernickle Police.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Charles
> > --
> > Charles Perry
> > Reply to:
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> > ** A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand **
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> I apologize: I should have said "Dreikornbrot", perhaps to translate with
> "Three-grain-bread"??
>
> To be correct: The German "Korn" is not grain in PUPO's sense. A
> "Five-grain- bread " may contain (Oil)seeds like sunflower, flax or
sesame.
> A "Fuenfkornbrot" has five types of grain from the following bread- grains
> which belongs to the graminaceous: corn (maize, indian corn), rye, wheat,
> oat, spelt, rice, barley, millet and buckwheat. So the real German
> pumpernickel has only rye, wheat and old bread and seeds from rye and/or
> wheat.
>
> So it's all a kind of definition what you'll understand....
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> Who cares for definitions, if it is the taste that counts???
>
> Ulrike
I forgot to add:
As long as I have not to take Dick's bread - whatever it is - as a
pumpernickel ....
Ulrike