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I remember reading a letter from an Austrian Trappist abbot, from Bosnia in 19th cetury, to his friend in Austria. The letter was mostly complaining about local
by Kbelicius 3y ago
I remember reading a letter from an Austrian Trappist abbot, from Bosnia in 19th cetury, to his friend in Austria. The letter was mostly complaining about locals excessively drinking plum brandy. He had cut down all the plum trees on church land. Forbade coming drunk to mass, but then people would just get drunk after mass. Founded the first brewery in Bosnia to get the people to switch to beer. Even set up a fruit dryer so that the church would dry the plums for free so that the people did not have to make brandy out of it come winter. In January, a "jolly company" from the village came to visit him thanking him for the the dry plums. Usually by this time they would run out of brandy, now they had dry plums and were making it from them.
- logical_ferry 3y agoBeen to Bosnia once or twice. Still hitting plum brandy. They just added beer into the mix.
- miroljub 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz for the win. I still miss the quality homemade one when far away from the Balkans.
- pratio 3y agoAny chance you can point to this letter or the literature? Sounds super interesting.
- Kbelicius 3y agoIt was a letter by Franz Pfanner from 1873. Sadly, after a short search, I could only find a version of it in Croatian[1]. Google translate seams to do an ok job on it. [1] https://www.jergovic.com/ajfelov-most/pater-franz-pfaner-o-vjeri-bosanskih-katolika-u-boga-i-u-rakiju/ https://www.jergovic.com/ajfelov-most/pater-franz-pfaner-o-v...
- pratio 3y agoThank you so much. My Croatian friend has agreed to help me with it.