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Bavarian Liver Dumpling Soup (Bayerische Leberknödelsuppe)

Bastian — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:15:37 +0000

For 4 Persons
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

200 – 250 g liver
3 rolls (from the previous day)
1/2 ts salt
1/8 l luke-warm milk
25 g pork lard
1 onion
1 egg
Pepper
Marjoram
2 tbs parsley
3 tbs bread crumbs
1 l beef broth
Sliced parsley or chives

Preparation:
Slice the rolls and put them in a bowl. Add salt and pour the milk over the sliced rolls.
Let it rest until the slices are soft.
Chop the onion into small pieces.

Put the lard into a frying pan, heat it and brown the chopped onion.
Add the liver and then combine it with the roll slices. Mix it properly. Add pepper, majoram, parsley,
salt, egg, bread crumbs and knead it into a dough. With damped hands, make some dumplings.
Broil the beef broth and let it rest on low heat. Add the dumplings and cook the soup for about 20 minutes.

Serve the soup warm with pretzels and garnish it with sliced parsley or chives.

Bread soup (Brotsuppe)

Bastian — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:29:44 +0000

For 4 persons
Preparation time: 20 minutes (without waiting time)
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

250 g old rye bread
200 g marbled bacon
1 onion
4 tbs goose dripping
8 tbs flour
1 l vegetable stock
salt
black pepper from the mill
some roulettes of chives

Preparation

Soak the rye bread in cold water for at least 3 hours.
Cut the bacon and the onions into small dices.

Melt the goose dripping in a pot and sautée the bacon dices in it.
Squeeze the bread, add it and mash everything with a potato masher.
Stray the flour over it and quickly mix it in.
Pour the vegetable stocking into the pot bit by bit.
Spice with salt and pepper and let it simmer on a low heat for about 20 minutes.
The soup should have a chubby consistency.

Now fill it into bowls and put the chives over it.

Tip
The longer the bread may soak, the more creamy the soup gets.

Pancake soup (Flädlesuppe)

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:04:59 +0000

For 4 Persons you need:

Some fresh pancakes or pancakes from the day before
Broth

Roll every pancake up and cut it into stripes. Put a handful from the stripes in every soup dish and fill the soup dish with broth.

Comment:
You need the pancakes without apricot jam and confectioner’s sugar, only the roasted dough.

Tip:
Don’t put the pancakes in the broth before you serve the pancake soup, this would make the pancake stripes soggy.

Well suited to:

Serve this soup as a starter with some pieces of white bread

Regions:
Pancake soup you can find almost everywhere in Swabia.

Semolina dumplings soup (Griesnockerlsuppe)

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:49:40 +0000

For 4 Persons you need:

5,3 oz. (150g) semolina
2 Eggs
2 tablespoons of soft butter
A pinch of salt

Stir the eggs with the butter and salt untill it is a homogeneous mixture. Add the semolina little by little. This results in a solid mixture.
Then cut little dumplings from this mixture with a teaspoon and give them immediately in boiling broth and let them be there for 20 minutes.
Important: Don’t wait when you have cutted the dumplings, put them without any delay in the broth.

Tip
Cut small pieces, they get bigger while boiling.

Well suited to:

Serve this soup as a starter with some pieces of white bread

Regions:

You can find this recipe in many variants everywhere in the south of Germany, especially in Bavaria and Swabia.