Curry Ketchup Recipes – Authentic German

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Curry Ketchup Recipes are very popular in Germany like the famous Currwurst (curry sausage).  How did it start? It started when the German lady Herta Heuwer served it on September 4, 1949 at her street booth in Berlin, at the corner Kant/Kaiser Friedrich Strasse…

Halve Hahn German Rhineland Specialty

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This article will show you some traditional food from the Rhineland,  the head quarter of the German carnival (Karneval), and the historical city Cologne. One is the Halve Hahn, a German Rhineland Specialty. What is the Halve Hahn German Rhineland Specialty In the local…

Schupfnudeln – German Swabian Fingernoodles

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The Swabian recipe “Schupfnudeln” is a regional specialty from the German region Swabia, from the Schwabenland around Stuttgart and Ulm (the region around Stuttgart down to the Lake of Constance, the region where Spaetzle come from). On every local fair they make Schupfnudeln with…

German Green Pea Soup Cologne Style

german green pea soup cologne style

The German Green Pea Soup Cologne Style is a special soup recipe from the Rhineland. They call it “Ähzezupp”, in high German it is “Erbsensuppe”. This soup is ideal for fall and winter and tastes great with sausages. In the Rhineland they use the…

German Carnival Recipes Mutzen

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Today find out about the German Carnival Recipes: Mutzen – A Regional Recipe from the Rhineland. It was in the year of 1314 in Cologne. The first fools or in German called “Jecken” celebrated a parade through the city. The reason is unknown, only…

Lucky Piglets Pastry for New Years Eve

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The Lucky Piglets Pastry is ideal for the “German Silvesterparty”, the New Years Eve party. For such a celebration New Years Eve is  you can create some unusual food such as the lucky piglets. The piglet is a symbol for luck, so why not…

Alsace Bacon Onion Tart Flambee – Elsass Flammkuchen

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Let me introduce a French specialty called Alsace Bacon Onion Tart Flambee (Speckkuchen or Elsässer Flammkuchen in German) that originated from the region named Alsace (or Elsass) with its main city named Strassbourg. During many centuries in the past that region alternated between being…

German Potato Dumplings from the Pfalz

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The German Potato dumplings from the Pfalz – or in English “The Palatinate”  comes from Latin Palātium, and means palace; and in the  region itself they call it in their dialect: Palz). There is another word for it in German that is Rheinpfalz, and…