Backoëfe

Backoëfe, which means “baker’s oven” in Alsatian dialect, includes a range of meats with potato and onion. A variant called schnitzen features more potatoes and is flavored with bacon and dried fruits that make a temptingly syrupy jus at the bottom of the dish. In a traditional household, Monday was laundry day (and still was in northern England when I was a child) and too busy for cooking at home. So on Sunday night the meats for Backoëfe would be left to marinate, and early the next morni