• May include: A digital download PDF titled 10 Traditional Bavarian Fish Recipes from a real 1956 farmhouse cookbook by Babette's Table. The image shows a steaming bowl of soup and two plates of cooked fish with lemon slices and parsley.
  • May include: A printed page titled Fish Dishes, Vol. 5, listing recipes including Poached Saltwater Fish, Braised Saltwater Fish, Pan-Roasted Saltwater Fish, Layered Fish Fillets with Herb Butter, Fish in Beer Batter, Fish Goulash, Fish Cakes, Carp in Brown Sauce, Braised River Fish, and Fish Salad.
  • May include: A digital download PDF titled 10 Traditional Bavarian Fish Recipes from a real 1956 farmhouse cookbook by Babette's Table. The image shows a steaming bowl of soup and two plates of cooked fish with lemon slices and parsley.
  • May include: A printed page titled Fish Dishes, Vol. 5, listing recipes including Poached Saltwater Fish, Braised Saltwater Fish, Pan-Roasted Saltwater Fish, Layered Fish Fillets with Herb Butter, Fish in Beer Batter, Fish Goulash, Fish Cakes, Carp in Brown Sauce, Braised River Fish, and Fish Salad.
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May include: A digital download PDF titled 10 Traditional Bavarian Fish Recipes from a real 1956 farmhouse cookbook by Babette's Table. The image shows a steaming bowl of soup and two plates of cooked fish with lemon slices and parsley.

This cookbook was a 1956 wedding gift to my mother. She's gone now — but her recipes aren't.

Volume 5 brings you into the Fischspeisen chapter — the fish dishes of a 1956 Bavarian kitchen. Bavaria is landlocked, but this chapter covers both sea fish shipped inland and freshwater fish pulled from nearby rivers and lakes — poached, braised, pan-roasted, battered, and stretched into cakes and salads when there wasn't quite enough to go around. These ten recipes move from the plainest preparation in the book to carp in brown sauce, a holiday centerpiece still served in Bavaria today.

Each of the ten recipes includes:
— The original German name and recipe number from the Bayerisches Kochbuch
— Two headnote paragraphs connecting the dish to its time and place and to my mother's kitchen
— A historical note on the original recipe and its place in mid-century German cooking
— Ingredients in US measurements (cups, tbsp, oz, lbs) with metric equivalents
— A clear, step-by-step method
— A "week built around this dish" grid — five days of meals built from a single recipe, so nothing goes to waste

What's inside:
— Poached Saltwater Fish (Seefisch gekocht) — Nr. 235
— Braised Saltwater Fish (Seefisch gedünstet) — Nr. 238
— Pan-Roasted Saltwater Fish (Seefisch gebraten) — Nr. 241
— Layered Fish Fillets with Herb Butter (Fischfilet gebraten) — Nr. 242
— Fish in Beer Batter (Seefisch in Bierteig gebacken) — Nr. 245
— Fish Goulash (Fischgulasch) — Nr. 246
— Fish Cakes (Fischküchlein oder Fischwürstchen) — Nr. 249
— Carp in Brown Sauce (Karpfen in brauner Soße) — Nr. 265
— Braised River Fish (Flußfisch gedünstet) — Nr. 267
— Fish Salad (Fischsalat) — Nr. 270

About the source:
Bayerisches Kochbuch (Bavarian Cookbook) by Maria Hofmann, 26th edition, Birken-Verlag München, 1956. Given as a wedding gift to my mother, Erna Paul, on her wedding day in postwar Bavaria.

Also available:
— Soups, Vol. 1 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4509353432/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-soups-vol-1-o
— Soups Sampler — three recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4509356836/1956-bavarian-cookbook-sample-3
— Potato Dishes, Vol. 2 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4512343024/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-potato-dishes
— Desserts, Vol. 3 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4557590166/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-desserts-vol
— Meat Dishes, Vol. 4 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4591464516/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-german-meat
— Puddings & Strudel, Vol. 11 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4591463427/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-german
— Yeast Doughs, Vol. 12 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4591475056/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-german-yeast
— Cakes & Tortes, Vol. 13 — ten recipes — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4591462525/1956-bavarian-cookbook-pdf-german-cake

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Instant digital download. One PDF file, 13 pages, US Letter size. No physical item will be shipped. Print at home or read on any device.

Old recipes. Real stories. A Bavarian kitchen, 1956.

Cover art and first-draft translations were made with AI tools; every recipe was then checked and edited by hand against the original 1956 pages.

All rights of translation and adaptation reserved. This is an original translation and adaptation — not a reproduction of the original German text.

Learn more about the book: https://babettes-table.com/the-book.html

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