Country Wedding in Castelrotto

Every 2nd year in January, Castelrotto remembers the traditional peasant wedding and takes a journey back to the 19th century.

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Among the dishes served in South Tyrol both in the past and still today are pasta with game ragout.
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Also various dumplings are among them: in the picture you can see cheese dumplings with Parmesan cheese and melted butter.
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The traditional Schlutzkrapfen, or briefly Schlutzer, are mostly filled with mushrooms, bacon or spinach and curd.
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Fried eggs with bacon and cabbage, possibly also with roasted potatoes, are still a popular dish in the mountains.
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In former times meat used to be very rare at the farm - it was kept in the cold cellars after slaughter.
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Polenta, called “Plentn”, is part of the cooking tradition in South Tyrol and is also offered to helpers during the fruit harvest.
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Milk mash, prepared in its own pan, consists of Musmehl flour, semolina, sugar, salt, milk and melted butter.
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The Kaiserschmarrn (”Kaiser” means emperor), on the other hand, is a dessert made from flour, salt, sugar, egg yolk and milk.
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Baked apples with cranberries and butter: they can also be prepared with sugar and cinnamon, nuts, marzipan or raisins.
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The small apricot dumplings are a traditional pastry of the Bohemian, Bavarian and Austrian cuisine.
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In Castelrotto (Kastelruth), the traditional Castelrotto Country Wedding takes place every two years in January.
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Every odd year, on a Sunday in mid-January, a peasant wedding is re-staged, as it was usual in the Alpe di Siusi area in the past. At that time a wedding was usually held in winter, as the warm months were reserved for hard work on the farm and in the fields. Between 15 and 25 richly decorated horse-drawn sleighs start around 2 pm from San Valentino through the snow-covered countryside to Castelrotto. Once arrived in the village centre, the wedding party presents itself to the spectators, who in the meantime are pampered with local delicacies by the local farmers.

The wedding party in its historical costumes, from the bridal couple to the "Marenner" to the bride's guide, who had to bring the bridal couple into the church, is absolutely worth seeing - a total of 17 couples can be admired. The traditional costumes all come from the respective private possession. From the village square the wedding party then moves to a hotel in the village to enjoy the wedding banquet which is called "Hoazetkuchl" in local dialect. And of course there is a lot of partying and dancing! Around the Castelrotto Country Wedding the corresponding speciality weeks take place: The innkeepers present typical wedding dishes from the past in a new dress such as dumplings with game stew. Meanwhile the Castelrotto Country Wedding is considered as one of the most splendid costume shows throughout the region - another one takes place at midsummer in the Val Gardena valley, the "Gröden in Tracht" folklore festival.

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