Monday, July 19, 2010

I am looking for a German dish that contains hot potatoes and raspberries, but I don't know the name.?

My German grandmother use to make this all of the time and she called it 'German Noodles', although it was not made with noodles but potatoes. The custard on top of the potatoes was made with egg, milk and a little bit of flour. And you pour hot raspberries on top. Sometimes in Germany, peaches or apples were used instead.

I am looking for a German dish that contains hot potatoes and raspberries, but I don't know the name.?
The only dish I can think of that fits in with that extremely unusual combination is the Saarland dish "Himbeer Kl枚sse", where the German 'noodles' your grandmother mentioned were an anglicisation of the alternative German word for "Kl枚sse", which is "Kn枚del". Both, however, are actually potato %26amp; flour dumplings, and from the rest of your description, your grandmother seems, quite understandably, to have gone off on flights of imagination of her own with the dish, for the whole custard part you mention doesn't feature. The alternative fruit used, on the other hand, do (almost) coincide: Apricots/Peaches/Nectarines or Plums.





The Kl枚sse/Kn枚del are dumplings formed from potato %26amp; flour paste, which is then moulded around the stoned fruit (or a dessert spoonful of raspberries) and poached in water kept at a trembling simmer for 20 mins or so. I can't see any reason why you couldn't then serve these with custard -- far from it -- but obviously the Saarland dish is somewhat different from what you remember your grandmother doing.





I have the Himbeer Kl枚sse recipe here, in German, which, if you think you'd like it I can either post here after translating it, or if you're comfortable with the German, I can email it to you. Let me know.





Hope this helps some of the way at least.
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