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Gullidetts Boil pork hocks with salt, onion and garlic for 2 plus hours and chill - jelly from the pork hocks make it stiff and eatible - very good - recipe inherited ...

Pelts Looking for recipe for pelts. Anyone have it?

My dad made them every New Year's morning!

Karalewski Torte This Karalewski Torte has a base of sour cream,sugar, flour, egg, baking powder
do this 4 times but put in one: poppy seed
the other:raisins
the other:...

"Cloud Cake" Looking for a recipe for a light cake with chocolate at the bottom.

Krummel kuchen Need a recipe for Krummel Kuchen that uses a bread dough base for the cake and then crumbs of sugar, butter, flour, ?? on top

boe ter koegen? Looking for a recipe for "boe ter koegen". It's a type of sweet bread. I'm hoping someone can understand this, because I don't know how to spell it! It ...

Rolls from Amberg I was in Germany from 1979 to 1981 in Amberg. We used to get some rolls that were real hard on the out side, and soft inside once you opened them.

Do ...

Noodles and Lettuce Recipe? Noodles are boiled than fried in butter than served with leaf lettuce in a cream and vinegar dressing.

Does anyone have an actual recipe and name for ...

Rearum? Looking for this recipe that has flour, eggs at least 12, oil, salt, and pepper.
We ate it mostly on Fridays and with salad with oil and vinegar dressing....

Crotsedi Looking for a recipe for a pan-fried pancake made with flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and eggs.

Gluten Free Potato Dumplings? Has anybody ever tried substituting potato flour or quinoa for the all-purpose flour? Those of us who are German and gluten-intolerant need some help in ...

Zucker Kuchen This is a sugar cake that my grandmother would make for me when I visited. Have you heard of it or maybe have the recipe?

Woodmush? My Mom used to make a dish called Woodmush . . . in German I think it is spelled . . . holzmoose or holzmuise . . . not sure . . . it's made ...

Pelts Recipe? My mother and my great aunt used to make something they called pelts . They were a fried dough and they only made them on News Years eve and we always ...

Knip Soup Looking for a recipe for a soup that has potato, noodle, and ham called knip . Need HELP on this one!
William, I do not know what to make of this one....

Tatar I'm looking for a recipe for tatar that has hamburger meat and raw egg?

Blood Dumplings or "Brucrub" Our Grandmother always made blood dumplings or she called it brucrub. Of coarse, no one can find the recipe in their parent's books. It contained flour,...

"Iabutta" I am looking for a recipe that sounds like "iabutta" that my Grandma used to make. It was served over toast maybe as a spread or sauce.

Cinnamon Pudding with Raisins I do not know the correct spelling but I was looking for a recipe for a Raisin Mousse - thought my grandma called it Zinamousse . But she had a thick ...

Knoedlen Breakfast Dumplings
flour
bacon
hot milk
salt,pepper
Fried in the hot bacon grease . . . it kind of curdles.

Anyone know this recipe?...

Hafa Klassel The recipe could be finished off two ways - steamed or fried. The steamed one we would eat it with browned butter and blueberries. You would pull it apart ...

Hevaglase Looking for a recipe that has potatoes with dough pieces and browned bread pieces in butter. Anyone have any ideas?

pineapple torte My Great Oma always made a pineapple torte where she used Holland Rusk as the crust and the filling was crushed pineapple and a very creamy yummy filling....