Our Easter Sunday walk finished at an ice cream parlour, where we enjoyed Spaghettieis. Click here to find out what that is!

Our Easter Sunday walk finished at an ice cream parlour, where we enjoyed Spaghettieis. Click here to find out what that is!
Wo kommen die leckeren Spaghetti eigentlich her?
Na ganz logisch, sie werden einmal im Jahr vom Spaghettibaum geerntet. Der Beweis ist hier ein Film in dem man den Spaghettibaum, bzw. die Ernte sehen kann.
Das ist ein Aprilscherz aus dem Jahre 1957, da hat die BBC in England diesen netten Film in der Schweiz und England gedreht, in dem anscheinend Spaghetti geerntet werden. Ausgestrahlt wurde er natürlich am 1. April und viele Millionen Menschen haben ihn verfolgt. Der Sprecher im Film war ein sehr bekannter Nachrichtensprecher der das ganze noch glaubwürdiger machte.
Heute sind Spaghetti mit Tomatensoße -vor allem bei Kindern – wohl das beliebteste Essen. In diesen vergangenen Zeiten waren sie jedoch sehr außergewöhnlich und eigentlich nur in Dosen mit Tomatensoße erhältlich oder ungekocht fertig verpackt. Wie sie hergestellt werden, war relativ unbekannt.
Darum haben nach der Ausstrahlung sehr viele Zuschauer bei der BBC angerufen, ob das auch wirklich so sei und manche wollten sogar wissen wie man denn selbst einen Spaghettibaum pflanzen könne.
Die offizielle Antwort am BBC Zuschauertelefon lautete: “ein Stück Spaghetti in eine Dose Tomatensoße legen und auf das Beste hoffen”.
Spaghettieis is a popular dessert that is served in German ice cream parlours. It is, however, little known outside of the country having apparently been invented here. As such, many visitors are not aware of it and do not know what it is.
To make Spaghettieis a portion of whipped cream is first placed on a plate or into a bowl. Then vanilla ice cream is put into a machine or hand-held press which pushes it through a disc with holes in. The ice cream passes through the holes and lands on the cream, giving it the spaghetti form.
After this, the ice cream “spaghetti” is covered in strawberry sauce and grated flakes of white chocolate are used for the final garnish.
The result looks like this:
Spaghettieis
Then, whilst you are eating the ice cream, the whipped cream sometimes starts to solidify, giving it an interesting texture.
A cross-section of a spaghettieis - the solidified cream is visible under the vanilla ice cream
Some shops also offer variations on the traditional Spaghettieis, such as:
and there are also other ice cream dishes created similarly to look like Italian cuisine:
Finally, if you use bigger holes to push the ice cream through and serve the result lengthwise on a plate, it is supposed to look like Asparagus.
To make Spaghettieis at home, you can use a Spätzlepresse – normally used to make Swabian noodles. You can buy these at specialist kitchen suppliers, eg. cookplanet.com
A "Spätzlepresse"
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