Three recipes. Ninety-nine cents. Not free.
This cookbook was a 1956 wedding gift to my mother. She's gone now — but her recipes aren't. If you want to see how Babette's Table works before you buy a full volume, this is the door: a sample pack of three soup recipes from Bayerisches Kochbuch, translated from Fraktur, with the same headnotes and US measurements as Vol. 1.
Fleischbrühe is the ground. Kartoffelsuppe is the weeknight pot. Fruchtsuppe is the one that will confuse you and then, if you let it, delight you — cold fruit soup, a first course, not a dessert. My mother served it in schnapps glasses and told us to drink it slowly.
The sample pack is $0.99. Instant PDF download on Etsy. It is not a free sampler. If you want the other seven soups, they are in Soups, Vol. 1.
The three recipes
- Clear Beef Broth (Fleischbrühe)
- Bavarian Potato Soup (Kartoffelsuppe)
- Cold Fruit Soup (Fruchtsuppe)
Full recipes — ingredients, method, historical headnotes, and a week-of-meals grid — in the Sample Pack PDF on Etsy. Instant PDF download. No physical book is shipped.
26th edition · Birken-Verlag, Munich · 1956
Originally given to Erna Paul as a wedding gift.
Written in printed Fraktur typeface. Translated by E. Paul.
