Hungarian sausages soups like Jókai bableves, in meat stews, in some goulash soup variations, pastry dishes and even salads. The smoked sausages may contain bacon, ground pork, beef, boar or lamb, paprika, salt, garlic, black pepper, allspice, white pepper, caraway, nutmeg, zest, marjoram, cayenne pepper, sugar, white wine or cognac. The meat is coarsely ground and salted. If garlic is added, it is mashed in water to produce a slurry and added to the meat along with spices. The sausage is then stuffed into natural casings in 1-foot links - usually using the small intestine of the pig. This traditionally took place
Affair of the Sausages the subject of a 2016 cantata "Geist und Wurst" by Edward Rushton. Affair of the Sausages The Affair of the Sausages (1522) was the event that sparked the Reformation in Zürich. Huldrych Zwingli, pastor of Grossmünster in Zurich, Switzerland, spearheaded the event by publicly speaking in favor of eating sausage during the Lenten fast. Zwingli defended this action in a sermon called "Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen" (Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods), in which he argued, from the basis of Martin Luther's doctrine of "sola scriptura", that "Christians are free to fast or not to fast because