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on week end evenings people go often in " Winstueb's ", Alsatian typical tavern's, to eat flamcakes & drink white wine
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The" singed pie "(in Alsatian Flammekueche ) is an Alsatian traditional dish composed of a pie with paste bread covered with bacon cubes, onions, and with cream, possibly browned by rasped Emmenthal, and gets pissed in the oven. His name is a poor translation: it is not singed with some alcohol, it is cooked in the flame.
Here are some originalities linked to the tasting of pies singed in the restaurant. The singed pie is served only in the evening. That served at midday is only an arrangement for the tourists. The singed pie is served with fingers. The usage of place settings is useful only for the too hot browned singed pies to be kept in the hand. It is possible to nibble only the single pie singed as an aperitif, with the traditional bitter - beer by waiting for the suite of dishes.
The singed pie is never served one per capita. It is served to one in one and shared between the number of guests by the guest and by the waiter. In case of guests' big tables several pies will be of course served all at once not to diminish the part too much. So, The single pie is brought for two-six persons
As it is the customer who cuts up parts, the customer cuts it up for all with his knife some people restoring make available a pizza castor. From the order of the first singed pie, it is necessary to signal the stopping of orders to satiety, and not suite. By saying nothing, service goes on.
Because of this or that there are restaurants offering "at pleasure" expressions. The accountancy of the singed pies used by the customer is made by traits in the fountain pen on the paper tablecloth. Various cabalistic signs are used to differentiate pies simple, of browning, of forested and others.