Sonntagsbraten — the Sunday roast, taken outdoors
Cold Roast Veal, Hampstead Heath Picnic Style
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A slow-roasted veal joint, cooled then thinly sliced, taken outdoors with bread and beer. The rare and happy luxury of the Marx Sundays.
Sonntagsbraten — the Sunday roast, taken outdoors
A slow-roasted veal joint, cooled then thinly sliced, taken outdoors with bread and beer. The rare and happy luxury of the Marx Sundays.
On Sundays we deserted Soho for Hampstead Heath, the children at the head and the basket on the arm. There was cold roast veal — when Engels' purse had allowed it — bread, beer, and the children singing at the top of their lungs on the grass. I confess: on those days, the author of *Capital* forgot capital and became a simple hungry and happy father. Slice the meat generously, and forget neither the salt nor the gaiety.
Ingredients
- •Shoulder or nut of veal — a fine piece (roast meat)
- •Lard or butter — a knob (roasting fat)
- •Onion — two (aromatic base)
- •Carrot and root vegetables — a few (aromatic base)
- •Salt, pepper, bay leaf — to hand (seasoning)
- •Broth or water — a large glass (moistening)
How it was made : The *Sonntagsbraten* (Sunday roast) was the festive institution of 19th-century German cuisine: meat, being expensive, was reserved for the Sunday meal. Served cold and sliced, it became the ideal food for countryside excursions, very popular among families of the time. For German exiles in London, these outings recreated a piece of conviviality from the homeland.
Sources : Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx zum Gedächtnis, 1896 · Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, 2011