[PW] Hitler's Sweet Tooth

[Shari Haber]

We get these questions second-hand, but the following is a "London 
Times" article that mentions the cream cakes: 
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/staff/Paolini/Times090603.html
And, vegetarian/author Rynn Berry also mentions it:
          http://www.navs-online.org/reviews/new/hitler.html

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reed C Bowman" <hammerquill at earthlink.net>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Hitler's Sweet Tooth


> Schaumtorte is one possibility, but I have no idea. Some recipes are
> very heavy on the whipped cream and/or pastry cream. But, of course, 
> the
> variants on schaumtorte are almost as different from one another as
> different recipes for "bean soup".
>
> Do you have any more information? Where does this question come from?
> Where, more to the point, does the mention of Hitler's preference for
> this stuff come from? The source of the information might help us 
> figure
> out what recipe you're looking for.
>
> RCB
>
> Shari Haber wrote:
>
>>Esteemed Colleagues:
>>
>>Does anybody have (or know of) a recipe for the kind of "cream cake"
>>that Adolph Hitler liked to eat? I've checked several German cookery
>>books, as well as Google, Clusty, etc., all to no avail. (This is 
>>either
>>a whipped cream-drenched concoction, or a cake made with whipped or
>>heavy cream.)
>>
>>Shari Haber
>>MCLS Reference Center
>>shaber at mcls.org
>>
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