Back in middle ages the Schaugericht was used to impress your guest by adding fake food , food made out of wax , cast or sugar , to create a spectacular attraction.They even rebuilded mystic setting or pictures full of symbols from the bibel. Swans and peacocks often got cooked and then put back together so they still looked alive . Lambs , deer ,bullheads were gilded!
Another thing was to create a pie-crust that looked like dinner and then hiding living animals inside, like birds, butterflys , eel as a scary surprise, dogs and even a dwarfs in it to make the ladys scream.
In 1761 Maria Theresia banned the Schaugericht because of wastefullness and people got more used to create this fakefood out of porcelain and so on
