Here the bounty of the region is served up in typical dishes such as spaetzle (hand-formed noodles) and maultaschen (a meat-stuffed pocket of dough similar to ravioli).
There are also egg-shaped boxes that conceal nutmeg graters (women used the nutmeg to disguise bad meat at wayside inns), and boxes made to look like pocket watches (Welsh miners flashed them after church to imitate the real thing).