RSSIn Nurnberg
Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday at 3pm, the Christ Child appears on Nurnberg’s central stage to welcome visitors to one of the more famous markets in Germany.
At the stands, my friend Ellen and I try the traditional spiced red-wine gluwhein. But we also dare each other to try the Eierpunsch.
It looks frothy and milk-shake-like, and we wonder if it can really contain much alcohol. Because, as I am learning, if it doesn’t have much alcohol in it, what worth is it to drink while standing outside in freezing temperatures?
“So, what exactly is in the Eierpunsch?” we ask. The woman behind the counter looks at us as though we are asking for her family’s secret recipe as she quickly runs through a list of ingredients in hopes that we won’t remember any of them: “Egg-liquor, schnapps, rum, brandy.” “Really, all of that in that little glass?” we ask. “Yes, and would you like whipped crème also?” she adds nonchalantly.
The Eierpunsch was, if nothing else, a sugar bomb whose detonation we didn’t realize until later. That’s when we found ourselves ordering numerous small Nurnberg sausages, which are particular to this region. Good thing no one ever asks for the ingredients in sausages.
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