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[lobelia321]

1 1/2 pre-baked petits pains with quark and bramble jelly; 1/2 of ditto with orange thick-cut marmalade.

Coffee with one sugar.

One combined vitamin A and iron tablet.

Comments

[junalele.livejournal.com]

See, and this time I'm not envious at all since I just had two white chocolate mocc- wait a second...what's the plural of mocca? *is confuzzled* Realised again that two are just a bit too much. Feeling a bit high-strung now. Wonderful. *headdesks*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Mocche?

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. :D

[lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com]

Um, what is 'pedw'? It's puzzling me.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Post Every Day Week.

*g*

This was started by badgermonkey last summer. People have made special icons. Then the convention of posting something boring, specifically one's breakfast, was started.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

quark and bramble jelly

And they claim we share a language.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Well, my first language is German. Is yours?

Quark is a German word and a German thing. Bramble jelly, I suspect, is highly English.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Huh! I did not know that. I'm a typical 'merican in that English is my one and only language, though I can understand just enough Spanish to discourage me from ever, ever speaking it in public.

So. What is a quark, and in what respect is it edible, and what part of a bramble can be made into jelly?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

A bramble is a blackberry, thus:



And the jelly is the seedless jam made therefrom.

A quark is an uncountable noun and refers to what the English call 'curds'.

Here is some quark on a German slice of bread:


And here's some quark sitting on a plate:


And here's some of it made into a dessert:


Wikipedia tells me this:
It is white and unaged, similar to cream cheese, pot cheese, or ricotta. It is made by letting lactic acid bacteria (sometimes also rennet) ferment milk, with the resulting curd.

It's thicker than yoghurt, not lumpy like ricotta, not sweet but tart.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Now that you've translated, it sounds delicious.

thicker than yoghurt, not lumpy like ricotta, not sweet but tart.

Sounds like the nearest American equivalent might be cream cheese, though that's more salty than tart.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like cream cheese or Philly cheese. In Australia, people used to use Philadelphia cream cheese to make cheese cake while in Germany, we use quark for cheese cake. Quark is not as firm as cream cheese, a tiny bit gooeyer, and it's sweeter. I wouldn't eat cream cheese with jam, for example.