Basel Fasnacht Foodways

Festival

Flour soup and cheese or onion tart eaten at four in the morning when the Morgestraich begins, Fasnachtskiechli, and a Protestant carnival that starts AFTER Lent has begun — ⚠ which is why it is not the same festival as a Catholic Fasnacht, and its food is not the same either.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Swiss German

What is recorded

Basel’s Fasnacht begins the Monday AFTER Ash Wednesday, because the Reformed city kept no Lenten fast to precede. Its flour soup and onion tart belong to that calendar and not to the Catholic carnival food of the inner cantons. documented

Recipes

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