German Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from Germany

• Blood sausage (German: Blutwurst) - A sausage made from blood, meat and barley (similar to English black pudding). Blutwurst is often made from fatty pork meat with cow's blood, but in the Rhineland area, horse meat with is traditional. A popular variation is "zungenwurst" which includes pickled pig's tongue in the sausage mix. Although the sausages are ready cooked and ready to eat, blutwurst is almost always heated and served hot.
  
  
• Bratwurst - Bratwurst are a popular variety of sausages made from pork or beef (or sometimes veal). They are normally eaten hot with mustard and ketchup, and are also used as an ingredient for some other dishes; for example, currywurst is made by slicing bratwurst and dipping the slices into a tomato-based curry sauce.
  
  
• Frankfurter sausage - A sausage made with smoked pork. While it is eaten hot with bread and mustard, it is not exactly the same as the American "frankfurter" sausage.
  
  
• Hasenpfeffer - A stew made from marinated rabbit meat, with a sour taste created by adding wine or vinegar.
  
  
• Klöße - Traditional German dumplings made from grated potato or dried bread, with milk and egg yolk. In Bavaria and Austria, it known as "knödel" or "knödeln".
  
  
• Labskaus (also known as "Lapskaus") - Corned beef boiled in broth, and then minced with beetroot, onion, potatoes, and herring or ham, and finally fried in lard. Traditionally accompanied with rollmops (pickled fillets of herring).
  
  
• Sauerkraut - Finely sliced cabbage, fermented in an airtight container. It can be eaten as a relish, dressed with oil and onions as a salad, heated and served hot, or used as ingredient in other dishes.
  
  
• Eisbein - Braised leg of pork, served with gravy, klöße (potato dumplings) and sauerkraut (fermented cabbage). In Berlin, eisbein is cooked with pea puree.
  
  
• Saumagen - Translated literally, saumagen means "sow's stomach". It is probably best understood as being the (rough) German equivalent of haggis. Basically pork or beef with onions, carrots and a variety of spices and flavors is cooked in pig's stomach. It should be noted that the stomach itself is not eaten, but is just used as a casing when cooking. The usual accompaniments are mashed potatoes and sauerkraut (fermented cabbage).
  
  
• Schupfnudeln - Sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) cooked with potato noodles.
  
  
• Schwenker - Grilled pork steaks, prepared with a marinade of onions and spices.
  
  
• Spätzle - The German version of noodles. A simple dough is made from flour, eggs and salt, and it is then cooked in boiling water. Spätzle is often eaten as a side dish with meat, but may also be used as an ingredient in other dishes too.
  
  
• Gaisburger marsch - A traditional beef stew, contained cubes of beef, potatoes and spätzle (noodles). The stew is topped with onions fried in butter.
  
  
• Linsen, spätzle und saitenwürstle - Spätzle (noodles) cooked with lentils and Frankfurter-style sausages.
  
  
• Kässpätzle - Spätzle (noodles) mixed with grated cheese and fried onions, then fried or baked.
  
  
• Krautspätzle - A cooked mixture of spätzle (noodles), sauerkraut (fermented cabbage), onions and butter.
  
  
• Weißwürste - White sausages made from pork fat. Originally from Munich (German: München), this dish is often eaten as part of "second breakfast" (German: zweites frühstück).

• Lebkuchen - Cookies made from gingerbread, also often eaten during the Christmas period.
  
  
• Schwarzwälder kirschtorte - Known as "Black Forest gateau" in the United Kingdom, and "Black Forest cake" the United States, Canada and Australia - Layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherries between each layer. The cake is then decorated with more whipped cream as well as maraschino cherries and chocolate shavings. In Germany, kirschwasser (a clear brandy made from cherries) is traditionally used in making the cake, although in other countries this is frequently substituted (for example, in Austria, rum is often used instead), or omitted entirely.
  
  
• Stollen - A bread-like fruitcake with citrus peel, dried fruit, almonds and spices, often eaten at Christmas. The most famous variety is Dresden Stollen from the city of Dresden, which is marked with a special stamp, and only available from 150 bakers.

Fry Bacon. Add Onions: The Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook By Kathleen Valentine Parlez-Moi Press Paperback (178 pages) List Price: $15.00* Lowest New Price: $10.20* Lowest Used Price: $9.98* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In this combination memoir and family cookbook blogger and novelist Kathleen Valentine combines 30 posts from her blog with nearly 400 recipes collected from family and friends. Growing up in a "mostly Pennsylvania Dutch" family she collected and recorded recipes from grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, cousins, friends, etc. which were combined in the first Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook published in 1981. This was expanded in the 1992 edition and now, in this third edition, nearly 400 recipes combine with essays recording memories of growing up in rural Pennsylvania and photographs from six generations. Essays topics include making sauerkraut and soltz (sultz) (a German pickled meat loaf), toasting marshmallows and catching fireflies, the old-country Christmas traditions of making stollen and visits from Belsnickle, old world ghost stories, their grandmother's quilts, and more. Traditional family recipes include schmarn, panhaas, moultasha, a variety of sausage recipes, hassenpfeffer, and liver dumplings, a wide variety of pickles and relishes, as well as keuchels (a type of fried dough), apple dumplings, and rhubarb crisps and pies. Contemporary recipes from the younger generations of the Valentine family expand the collection with everything from dips and cocktails to chowders, cakes and cookies. Among the more popular recipes first featured on Valentine's blog are: three maple syrup pies apricot-apple crisp with maple cream caramel peachy-pear pandowdy honey & white peach pie Pennsylvania Dutch hot and sour soup Though this collection is a memoir in food of the Valentine family it could be the story of any first, second and third generation immigrant family.

German Culture Past and Present By Ernest Belfort Bax General Books LLC Paperback (104 pages) List Price: $20.00* Lowest New Price: $19.99* Lowest Used Price: $22.70* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Germany; National characteristics, German; Peasants' War, 1524-1525; Reformation; Anabaptists;

The German Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Mastering Authentic German Cooking By Mimi Sheraton Random House Released: 1965-10-12 Hardcover (523 pages) List Price: $34.95* Lowest New Price: $21.48* Lowest Used Price: $7.53* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Here is the completely authentic book of German cuisine, from delicious soups to the greatest baking specialties of the world, complete with indexes and both English and German. In addition to the easy-to-follow recipes, the author discusses some of the great restaurants in Germany and how to order the traditional dishes. She researched these recipes for a year in the United States, eating almost every night in German restaurants, from the most expensive, to small neighborhood eateries, then traveled throughour Germany itself. Every recipe has been tested in her own kitchen--she guarantees that the ingredients are readily available and that the average person needs no special equipment in order to cook it. "Few countries in Europe," the author writes in her introduction, "have landscapes more beautiful or maore varied than those of Germany. It is not a large country, slightly smaller than the state of Montana, but within this area there is almost every kind of terrain one finds in the Temperate Zone. The German cuisine is almost as varied as the terrain. Just as Bavaria passes as the archetype for the entire country, so the food of that section--the dumplings, sausages, beer, pork, and cabbage dishes--represents German cooking to the outside world Delicious though these dishes may be, they hardly begin to give even a clue to the whole spectrum of German cooking, which has more appeal than the average American palate than that of any other foreign country. Think of all the German dishes that have been taken over by Americans--not only hamburgers and frankfurters, with or without sauerkraut, but the jelly doughnut that was first the Berliner Pfannkuchen, Boston Creme Pie, that in Germany is 'Moor's Head'; the range of Christmas cookies; and even that old stand-by of ladies' luncheons, creamed chicken in a patty shell, that appears in every German Konditorei as Koniginpastetchen." Here they all are, hundreds of them. So Prosit and gut essen: your health and good eating.

Spoonfuls of Germany: Culinary Delights of the German Regions in 170 Recipes (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) By Nadia Hassani Hippocrene Books Hardcover (270 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $16.41* Lowest Used Price: $9.25* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Spoonfuls of Germany offers an in-depth look at the surprisingly diverse German regional cuisine. Stretching from the shores of the North and Baltic Seas to the Alps, Germany has a large number of distinctive regional dishes that encompass a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, meat, poultry, seafood, dairy products, and much more. The country's position in the heart of Europe, bordering on nine nations, has also greatly influenced German food and cooking. The regional specialties in this book present the full spectrum of German food. Spoonfuls of Germany goes beyond the saurkraut and knackwurst stereotype to unveil the often-overlooked diversity of German cuisine. The 170 regional recipes range from classic dishes such as spaetzle and sauerbraten, to forgotten delicacies like Westphalian pumpernickel pudding. Numerous profiles, anecdotes, and food lore complete the book. Complete with b/w photos and maps.

Gorgeous German Food: The Ultimate Collection Of The World's Finest German Food Recipes By Ruth Caldwell Released: 2011-08-06 Kindle Edition (67 pages) List Price: $3.97* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: [ATTENTION: The Price of this Ebook will increase to $6.97 soon!] In ”Gorgeous German Food: The Ultimate Collection Of The World's Finest German Food Recipes” you will not find thousands of different recipes you'll end up never using anyway, this is a LASER-focused edition with only the very best Hand-Picked True and Tested German Recipes that you will use and love for years to come. You will be able to make your own delicious and healthy German Food without any harmful preservatives or chemicals. Plus it will taste much better than anything you could ever buy in a store or at a restaurant! This perfectly and beautifully formatted book includes a Table of Contents and is made from scratch – no other recipe book has been harmed in the making of this one... In it you'll find traditional and unique variations of mouthwatering scrumptious German recipes like for example: * Authentic German Potato Salad * Annas German Dumplings * Authentic German Cheesecake * Authentic German Bread Bauernbrot * Apple German Chocolate Cake * Asian-German Fusion Potato Salad * German Pancakes * Easy German Potato Salad * Easy German Bierocks Runza * Easy German Chocolate Cake * Easy German Biscuits * German Puff Pancakes * German Red Cabbage * German Rouladen * German Sauerkraut Soup * German Rye Bread * German Schwenkbraten * German Potato Salad * German Sausage Chowder * German Sauerbraten * German Lemon Cake * German Plum Rolls Zwetschgenschnecken * German Potato Cheese Soup * German Tomato Pie * German-Russian-Dakota Knefla * German-Style Beer Brat Sandwich * German Zwiebelkuchen Onion Pie * German-Style Beet Salad * German Style Kielbasa * German Spaghettini * German Style Muesli * German Spaetzle With Sauerkraut * German Sweet Chocolate Cake * German Spaetzle Dumplings * German Lentil Soup * German Lasagna * German Cheesecake * German Chicken * German Butter Balls * German Chocolate Angel Pie * German Beef Rouladen * German Chocolate Bars * German Fried Apples * German Apple Cake * German Chocolate Upside Down Cake * German Christmas Gingerbread * German Chocolate Toffee Cookies * German Coleslaw * German Filled Hoernchen * Simple German Potato Salad * Schnitzbrot German Christmas Bread … plus MUCH more, in fact well over 80 (!) additonal deliciously tasting German recipes! Simply put: If you like German Food – you will LOVE this book! Dig in and enjoy!

Taste of Old Germany: Recipes from my Colorado Restaurant and my Childhood By Rita Bergstrom iUniverse Paperback (120 pages) List Price: $12.95* Lowest New Price: $10.83* Lowest Used Price: $34.33* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: After her husband's death in 1998, Rita had to take over their Old Germany Restaurant in Dolores, Colorado. Following in the footsteps of her husband, who was a certified German chef seemed almost impossible at that time. Yet Rita began looking for recipes in old-written notes and in cookbooks. Not satisfied with what she found, she began to create her own recipes, making them as simple and easy-to-follow as possible. With the help of friends and family, she reopened Old Germany Restaurant in February, 1999. At the end of 2008, they closed the restaurant and went into retirement, but Rita promised her customers that she would write a cookbook so that she could share her wonderful German recipes with them. From her delicious customer favorite, Chicken and Dumpling Soup to the traditional German entrée Sauerbraten with German Fried Potatoes and many wonderful desserts, Rita shares all of her favorite recipes. These recipes are the only constant that guided her through happiness and sorrow, through failure and success, through loneliness and comfort. Writing this cookbook was a very soothing endeavor that has brought closure to this part of her life. It is her hope that these recipes bring many satisfying meals to all.

German Grammar (Quickstudy: Academic) By Inc. BarCharts QuickStudy Released: 2001-01-29 Pamphlet (4 pages) List Price: $4.95* Lowest New Price: $1.94* Lowest Used Price: $0.14* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 06:43 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Specially created for beginners to enhance their proficiency in German. 4-page laminated guide includes: • the German alphabet • numbers, nouns & pronouns • articles, adverbs & adjectives • comparatives & superlatives • prepositions, verbs & tenses • and much more...