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Bread Traditional German Recipes

Breakfast sticks / Brotstangen

Weekend is baking time… Since you have had the chance to bake a couple of breads, you might like some breakfast rolls as well. Here I have some wonderful breakfast bread sticks for you. This recipe is good for about 8-9 bread sticks. Read what you need to do first before going grocery shopping as […]

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Mains Traditional German Recipes

Cabbage Rolls / Kohlrouladen

It is cold and rainy outside, Bavaria is covered in snow and there is not much to do other than cooking and enjoying the warmth inside. For this I have the perfect recipe for you: Stuffed cabbage so called Kohlrouladen – for the meat eaters – yes the cabbage is filled with meat, so no […]

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Sweet Things Traditional German Recipes

German Christmas Stollen / Christstollen

No peeking!! Not yet. This is Christmas at its best: Have tea and eat a slice of Stollen. With marzipan or without, with butter or without; to me this means Christmas. Every year when we come home on Christmas Eve, we sit down at the coffee table, have tea and wait for Santa Claus. Let […]

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Sweet Things Traditional German Recipes

Cinnamon Stars / Zimtsterne

1 month to go till Christmas …. Time to bake some Christmas cookies. The first time I made those Cinnamon Stars was in primary school. Ever since they were in the back of my head. When I made them again last Christmas in Stavanger, Norway the whole office was completely crazy about them. Now they […]

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Sweet Things Traditional German Recipes

Apple Strudel / Apfelstrudel

This amazing strudel is an old recipe from my Bohemian great-grandmother. No she was not wild and wacky, she was from Bohemia / Moravia. My mum remembers, how she used to come into the kitchen when she was little and see my great-grandma stretching the strudel dough to as thin as possible. Well this is […]

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Mains Traditional German Recipes

Swabian Pizza / Schwäbische Flammkuchen

Swabian Pizza comes from the region close to the Alsace. This is the reason why it is also known as tarte flambée. Furthermore it is the easiest way to have an amazingly quick dinner on the table and still enjoy a freshly made dish. You only need about 15 minutes to prepare, basically the time your […]

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Sweet Things Traditional German Recipes

Bavarian Plumb Cake / Zwetschgendatschi

This cake is a Bavarian specialty. The very original Bavarian Plumb Cake or Zwetschgendatschi is from Augsburg. A “Datschi” is a plum cake where the plumbs get pressed into the dough, which comes from the word datschen or detschen respectively. This cake is a great one, for any Sunday afternoon. It takes about 75 minutes […]

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Mains Traditional German Recipes

Maultaschen (Pasta Squares) – Traditional German Recipe

The south-west of Germany, the so called Schwabenland is home to the Maultasche, hence the regional description “schwäbische Maultasche”. In the early days any leftovers from the days before, were used to be the filling for the Pasta Squares without the family members noticing. In the period of fasting meat was forbidden. So people filled […]