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thumberlina

Hello,

I am in Germany - Germans love their desserts - here are some ideas/recipes for you:

Ingredients:

3/4 c Butter Or Margarine
1/2 c Sugar
2 Eggs; Large
1 T Rum
1 t Vanilla Extract
3 T Milk
1/2 t Cinnamon
2 t Baking Powder
2 1/4 c Flour; Unbleached
1/4 c Almonds; Ground
1 T Orange Rind; Grated
1/4 c Raisins; If Desired

Instructions:
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, rum, vanilla, and milk. Mix cinnamon, baking powder, and flour. Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Gently mix in almonds, orange rind, and raisins. Pour batter into greased muffin tins, filling half full. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 25 to 30 minutes, or until browned.

Makes 18 muffins.

Servings: 4

or.....

GERMAN APPLE DESSERT

1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1 stick butter
1/2 can coconut
1 (20 oz.) can sliced apples, drained
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 egg, beaten
1 (8 oz.) carton sour cream

Combine cake mix, butter and coconut in bowl, mixing until crumbly. Press over bottom and up sides of greased 11x13 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Ingredients:
1 pk Active dry yeast
1 c Milk, scalded
1/4 c Warm water
3 1/2 To 4 cups flour
1/2 c Sugar
1 t Salt
2 Eggs, well beaten
1/3 c Butter
Fat for deep frying, heated
To 375
1 tb Orange juice
2 ts Rum extract
Jam or jelly

Filled Berlin doughnuts recipe:

Directions:
Soften yeast in the warm water. Put 1/2 Cup sugar, the salt, butter, orange juice and rum extract into a large bowl. Pour scalded milk over ingredients in bowl. Stir until butter is melted. Cool to lukewarm. Blend in 1 cup of the flour and beat until smooth. Stir in yeast. Add about half of the remaining flour and beat until smooth. Beat in the eggs. Then beat in enough of the remaining flour to
make a soft dough. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and let rest 5 to 10 minutes. Knead until smooth and elastic. Form into a ball and put into a greased deep bowl; turn dough to bring greased surface to top. Cover; let rise in a warm place until double in bulk. Punch down dough. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and
roll 1/2 inch thick. Cut dough into rounds with a 3-inch cutter. Cover with waxed paper and let rise on rolling surface away from drafts and direct heat, until double in bulk (30 to 45 minutes). About 20 minutes before deep frying, heat fat. Fry doughnuts in heated fat. Put in only as many doughnuts at one time as will float uncrowded one layer deep in the fat. Fry 2 to 3 minutes, or until
lightly browned turn doughnuts with a fork or tongs when they rise to the surface and several times during cooking (do not pierce). Lift from fat; drain over fat for a few seconds before removing to absorbent paper. Cool. Cut a slit through to the center in the side of each doughnut. Force about 1/2 teaspoon jam or jelly into center and press lightly to close slit. (A pastry bag and tube may be used
to force jelly or jam into slit.) Shake 2 or 3 Bismarcks at one time in bag containing sugar.

Hope these help you - these links below give loads of ideas as well! Enjoy!!
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kat1605nrw

Goulash is actually Hungarian by origin. Frankfurters and Schnitzel and Sauerkraut are all ok but a bit run of the mill. (Actually, the Schnitzel with the breadcrums described above is Austian...never mind).

In my home region, hash browns are a local specialty, we eat them with apple sauce or sugar beet syrup. If you want to impress your teacher, tell them it's called Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus or Reibekuchen mit RÃ¼benkraut.

If you want something a bit rustic, you could try cooking "Himmel und Ã„Ã¤d", which is Cologne-area dialect for "Heaven and Earth". Potatoes (usually mashed, come from the earth), apple sauce (apples grown on trees, i.e. close to Heaven) and fried slices of black pudding (leave them out as I tend to do and you still have both heaven and earth).

Finally, if you just want a reinterpretation of something you probably allready know how to cook: French Toast in German is "Arme Ritter" - "Poor Knights", supposedly a food for the lesser gentility which couldn't always afford meat. Instead of toast use slices of actual white bread (a bit more rustic) and after frying serve with Pflaumenmus (plum preserve).

Regina

All the suggestions so far are sterotypical! There is more to germany then Brats and Sauerkraut. That only adresses 1 region of Germany. Gulasch is Hungarian!
Go to www.germandeli.com and to backmixes. You should find lots of stuff there.

Tanja L

The easiest thing I can think of would be some Chocolate. Some big stores sell several German kinds. Look for "Ritter Sport", it comes in a square package or try "Kinderschokolade" (tastes just soooo good).
Also, Haribo is a German brand. They have Gummy bears and more of that type of candy. I'm sure you can buy that in the US.

A typical German dessert is "Mousse au Chocolat". I know that sounds French but that's what my Mom always made when I was little. I've seen it at Safeway and I think at Trader Joe's. It's by "Dr. Oetker". Dr. Oetker makes all kinds of different puddings and cakes.

If you want any specific recipes please send me an email. I would be happy to help!

sonne101

when i was in australia two years ago we had to bring a typical recipe from our homecountry. For me that is Germany.
It was not as easy as i thought and i decided to give a good friday recipe. It is typical for our region. (Westphalia)

I like them fresh and hot, but you can also eat them cold.

I am going on thinking of typical cold recipe you could take with you to school.. WhatÂ´s about a french gateaux? Its delicious, typical french and easy to prepare?

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A Westphalien Good Friday Recipe
Struwen (Also known as Yeast Pancakes)

Ingredients for four servings
500 gFlour
380 mlMilk
40 gYeast
2 tblspSugar
125 gRaisins
1Egg
Â½ tblspSalt
Shortening to bake

Preparation

Mix the yeast and a little bit of warm milk and let it stand for half an hour.
Sieve the flour into a bowl and add all ingredients, including the raised yeast.
Jumble it with the lukewarm milk.
Cover the dough with a dishtowel. The dough must rise on a warm place for at least one hour.
To get a softer effect, stir it again and let it rise for another half an hour.
After the time heat the shortening in a pan und bake little place of 8-10 cm.
If you want you can take double amount of raisins and less salt.

Serve the hot pans with sugar or powder sugar.

Struwen is a typical Westphalian Good Friday recipe and it makes you very full.
If you canâ€™t eat all of them, they taste good cold too.

In Germany you often eat Struwen with beer soup or milk soup and other typical Westphalian Good Friday recipes.

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Oh... i love this one.. It is a desert called "Herrencreme"
It includes rum, maybe you take only a rum-flavour if you are not old enough for alcoholic ingrediences.

Herrencreme (4 servings)
Â½ l milk
1 Pck. custard powder, vanilla (version to cook)
50 g sugar
1 bit rum
100 g block of dark cooking chocolate
200/250 ml creme

Make a pudding out of milk, powder and sugar.
Stir it until it is cold to avoid a skin on the pudding.

Grate/rasp the chocolate and at the rum and the grated chocolate to the pudding.
whisk the cream stiff and fold it in.

dala

Kartoffelpuffer with apple-puree("pancakes of potatoes"):

1 kg potatoes, 30 g flour, 2 eggs, 1 onion, salt, oil

Peel and rub potatoes , wrap in a towel and squeeze out the water . Mix in a bowl with the flour and the eggs as well as with the grated onion and salt. Oil in the frying pan, heat up, with a tablespoon small dough-heaps in the pan and then making like pancakes until both sides are crisply roast. The potato pancakes are hotly served.

You can eat it with sugar or jam or apple-puree. For the apple-puree cook pealed apples-pieces with sugar and then
mash it.

Oh no, my english...;-)

Emerald Jones

Pork Schnitzel - look it up on the web. It's boneless porkchops that are pounded (not a lot of work) and cooked in bread crumbs. Very good - I lived there for a year and a half. Easy to cook.

jonathan d

sausages

Jeff M

Sour Kraut and Brat worst.

Good food!

fliege52000

sauerkraut, this is a typical German food, I remember they have this in US also.

keenamonkey

Sauerkraut and bratwurst. Beef Goulaush