Diet
Old potato varieties, new in fashion
While old fruit and vegetables threaten to disappear, experience old potato varieties, a Renaissance. They are characterized by an intense flavor, great colors and unusual shapes.
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Old varieties of potato to make the kitchen colorful
A small selection of old and colorful potato varieties from Europe. Unusual are also the names of, for example, Blue Swede, Black Hungarian, or Chancellor. With catchy name to grab consumers tend to.
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Potato Trader Undertakes Michael Leer’s
A marketer at the düsseldorf Carlsplatz from the scratch. Even as a child, half Leer’s at the state of the parents. A few years ago he dared his companion to make the switch from vegetables to pure Kartoffelsortiment. The approximately one hundred old, almost lost varieties of potato are only in the second season of the deal. With the great response of the customers, he had not expected, he says.
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The Bamberger Hörnchen
For some potato varieties, we know hardly anything about age and origin. Unlike the Bamberger Hörnchen. First mention of, in 1850; probably Germany’s oldest variety. Potato of the year 2008. Since 2013 of the EU as a regional brand recognized. Thus, only in Swiss francs-grown tubers the label to wear. The yields are very low.
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Blue Bamberger Hörnchen
The Blue Bamberger Hörnchen has the düsseldorf-based potato trader undertakes Michael Leer’s only since the fall in the range. A real rarity, because the cultivation has only recently been expanded. Are similar to the actual Bamberger Hörnchen, but should be more spicy and nutty taste.
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Mecklenburger Schecke
No less rare is the Mecklenburger Schecke. Violet-white-textured flesh. Striking the deep-set eyes – typical of many old varieties. In modern potato has bred out, because when they Peel annoying. Freshly cooked slightly soft and translucent, but when it cools solid. The taste of sweet chestnuts remember.
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The Blue Swede
Potato of the year in 2006. Further names are Blue Congo and Idaho Blue. Sweden as a country of origin is controversial, many suspect South America. Violet pulp, the cooking more blue. Mealy cooking. Potato trader undertakes Michael Leer’s recommended for mashed potatoes.
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Highland Burgundy Red
Is also under the name of Red Cardinal known. Originates from Scotland, the age is unknown. Mealy cooking. Michael Leer’s recommendation is mashed potatoes. The color is best preserved when the potatoes only attenuates, not cooks. Also for baked potatoes suitable, for example in combination with a Blue Sweden and a yellow variety.
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Potato plant with tubers
Potatoes grow well in sandy, rather lean soil. Supply per surface area as much Protein as cereal, but twice as many carbohydrates. The proteins are of high quality with many essential amino acids. The Vitamin C from the potato kept the population in times of famine against scurvy. The Green on the Potato plant by the way is toxic, also the tomatenähnlichen Berries.
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Potato harvest in the Andes
For the first time, around 10,000 years ago humans began in the South American Andes, scheduled to potato tubers to grow. You even the rise of the Incas to high culture, my historian. Some Potatoes have resistance genes, for example, against the Pilzerreger the Krautfäule. That makes it for breeders interesting.
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Krautfäule caused yield losses
The potato supplied Europe during the industrialization of low-cost food. Accordingly violent were by potato diseases crises. The infamous Krautfäule caused, for example, the middle of the 19. Century in Ireland, severe famine. Many people died, even more immigrated as economic refugees to the United States.
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Colorful New Varieties
Here are genes of South American potatoes-crossed, to make them less susceptible for diseases – for example, Krautfäule to make. Pink Panther, Red Emmalie, and Violetta (clockwise) of the lower Saxony Biobauers Karsten Ellenberg. All three are waxy. Ellenberg was known nationwide as the Savior of the variety Linda.
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Old varieties of potato to make the kitchen colorful
A small selection of old and colorful potato varieties from Europe. Unusual are also the names of, for example, Blue Swede, Black Hungarian, or Chancellor. With catchy name to grab consumers tend to.
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Potato Trader Undertakes Michael Leer’s
A marketer at the düsseldorf Carlsplatz from the scratch. Even as a child, half Leer’s at the state of the parents. A few years ago he dared his companion to make the switch from vegetables to pure Kartoffelsortiment. The approximately one hundred old, almost lost varieties of potato are only in the second season of the deal. With the great response of the customers, he had not expected, he says.
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The Bamberger Hörnchen
For some potato varieties, we know hardly anything about age and origin. Unlike the Bamberger Hörnchen. First mention of, in 1850; probably Germany’s oldest variety. Potato of the year 2008. Since 2013 of the EU as a regional brand recognized. Thus, only in Swiss francs-grown tubers the label to wear. The yields are very low.
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Blue Bamberger Hörnchen
The Blue Bamberger Hörnchen has the düsseldorf-based potato trader undertakes Michael Leer’s only since the fall in the range. A real rarity, because the cultivation has only recently been expanded. Are similar to the actual Bamberger Hörnchen, but should be more spicy and nutty taste.
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Mecklenburger Schecke
No less rare is the Mecklenburger Schecke. Violet-white-textured flesh. Striking the deep-set eyes – typical of many old varieties. In modern potato has bred out, because when they Peel annoying. Freshly cooked slightly soft and translucent, but when it cools solid. The taste of sweet chestnuts remember.
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The Blue Swede
Potato of the year in 2006. Further names are Blue Congo and Idaho Blue. Sweden as a country of origin is controversial, many suspect South America. Violet pulp, the cooking more blue. Mealy cooking. Potato trader undertakes Michael Leer’s recommended for mashed potatoes.
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Highland Burgundy Red
Is also under the name of Red Cardinal known. Originates from Scotland, the age is unknown. Mealy cooking. Michael Leer’s recommendation is mashed potatoes. The color is best preserved when the potatoes only attenuates, not cooks. Also for baked potatoes suitable, for example in combination with a Blue Sweden and a yellow variety.
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Potato plant with tubers
Potatoes grow well in sandy, rather lean soil. Supply per surface area as much Protein as cereal, but twice as many carbohydrates. The proteins are of high quality with many essential amino acids. The Vitamin C from the potato kept the population in times of famine against scurvy. The Green on the Potato plant by the way is toxic, also the tomatenähnlichen Berries.
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Potato harvest in the Andes
For the first time, around 10,000 years ago humans began in the South American Andes, scheduled to potato tubers to grow. You even the rise of the Incas to high culture, my historian. Some Potatoes have resistance genes, for example, against the Pilzerreger the Krautfäule. That makes it for breeders interesting.
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Krautfäule caused yield losses
The potato supplied Europe during the industrialization of low-cost food. Accordingly violent were by potato diseases crises. The infamous Krautfäule caused, for example, the middle of the 19. Century in Ireland, severe famine. Many people died, even more immigrated as economic refugees to the United States.
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Colorful New Varieties
Here are genes of South American potatoes-crossed, to make them less susceptible for diseases – for example, Krautfäule to make. Pink Panther, Red Emmalie, and Violetta (clockwise) of the lower Saxony Biobauers Karsten Ellenberg. All three are waxy. Ellenberg was known nationwide as the Savior of the variety Linda.
In the morning at seven o’clock in the works Michael Leer’s, the stores of his Stand up and the view of his expenses. There are potatoes – about one hundred varieties. Exotics from all over Europe, the 56-year-old trader at the market of the düsseldorf Carlsplatzes presented. An Eldorado for Kartoffelfans. “We offer these exotics now in the second year, and the response is overwhelming. Many come back again and again and have a try. The great response we had not anticipated,” says Leer’s.
The Kartoffelstand at the düsseldorf Carlsplatz offers over one hundred varieties. Including a lot of old.
An older customer calls for the Moor-Sieglinde – one of the few old varieties which are still very popular. Almost unknown, however: the Mecklenburger Schecke – the predominantly blue shell is yellow pied. The blue Swede has purple pulp when cooking it in blue. The Black Hungarian: is from Hungary, has a purple-black shell and the inside is almost white. “The important thing for a potato,” says Leer’s, ” is also a good Name.” Mainly because of find, for example, the potato with the name of Chancellor of the Reich a number of customers. She was born in Zwickau, Germany around 1885 – Bismarck was at the time, first Chancellor of the German Empire.
On duration convince, but the intense flavor of heirloom varieties, so Leer’s. Many are first optically from the usual framework. Some are pink-and-white patched, other inside pink or even red-colored. Many more knubbelig or oblong stretched. To Peel, they are often too small. “The old varieties of potato to cook with the best dish,” says Leer’s. “Then pellt them, or eat them with shell.”
Potatoes also thrive on lean soil
Potato trader undertakes Michael Leer’s happy about the positive response of the customers
Potatoes were for centuries one of the most important staple food for the Germans. They also delivered on meager soils in good yields, for example, on peat soils of the Heath. Hundred years ago, dominated many regional, especially to the particular climate adapted varieties to the market – up to national Einheitssorten almost completely repressed.
Meanwhile, the situation changes. The interest of the consumers of old potato varieties is growing. A Trend that is also in various Online-Shops reflected. And what a lot of customers to buy, remain. The old varieties survived in the past simply because a few farmers and hobby gardeners year by year in the ground planted. The tubers could not be for a longer time keep, only modern laboratory methods made that possible.
Potato genebanks to secure the stock
The largest potato Genebank has in this country, the Big Lüsewitzer potato assortments (GLKS) in Mecklenburg. Your task: approximately 2600 “pattern” for posterity to secure – stored in test tubes or frozen in liquid nitrogen. There are approximately 500 varieties, even after being out on the field, among other things, to the rarities back to the people. What then is harvested, can also private individuals – free of charge.
Around 200 Varieties
the GLKS are currently submitted, including the roasted blue of 1908, the Vogtländische blue – age unknown – and Sirius of 1886.
The International Kartoffelzentrum
in Lima, Peru, has even more than the GLKS in its gene banks secured: over 5000 varieties of potatoes, many of them from the Andes, the home of the potato. Nowhere is the colors and variety of shapes is greater than there. And some of the ancient Andes-potatoes have resistance to European breeders and make it more interesting. You cross to the ordinary supermarket potatoes are less sensitive to make. But bright colors and unusual shapes, one looks in the potato-Mainstream, so far to no avail.
New colorful potato varieties
Three colorful new varieties. Clockwise: Pink Panther, Red Emmalie, Violetta.
This gap in lower Saxony is an organic farmer Karsten Ellenberg recognized. He also crosses resistant South American varieties of our domestic and has now a few of his cultivars officially register: red Panther, Red Emmalie, and Violetta, for example. Peel and flesh are both in the named colors. Especially for organic farmers are resistant varieties is particularly important because there is not much there, what you inject. Also the düsseldorf market traders Michael Leer’s has the new Colorful Karsten Ellenberg in the range. He recommends the times a blend of many colorful potatoes in the pan to fry. Taste and visually was a real treat.