German Bauernschmaus (“Farmers’ Feast”)

Pork, Sausages, Bacon, Sauerkraut and Leberknödel 

Ingredients:

Menu:
1-3/4 lb. cooked pork, rather fat
6 Leberknodel, (recipe follows)
6 pork sausages
6 slices smoked bacon about 1/8 inch thick
Sauerkraut (recipe follows)
Mashed potatoes
Hot German mustard (like “Düsseldorf” style)

Leberknödel:
1/2 lb. calf’s liver
1 egg
3/4 lb. stale white bread
1 minced onion
1 pint milk
1/2 level teaspoon baking powder
lard or shortening (to fry onions)
1-1/2 rounded tablespoons flour
2 rounded tablespoons chopped parsley
1 level teaspoon marjoram
1 level teaspoon salt

Miller's Sauerkraut:
2 lb. fresh sauerkraut from the barrel, or 2 (one pound jars or cans) sauerkraut, three if not tightly packed
1/4 lb. fairly fat pork or sow belly, optional
1-1/2 tbsp. lard, no substitutes!
1 minced onion
18 dried juniper berries
1 apple
Boiling water to cover
2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. flour
1 md. raw potato (grated)
1/4 cup cold water

Directions:

FOR THE FEAST: Heat Knödels in boiling water. Cut pork in six slices. Heat kraut and pork together. Heat mashed potatoes. Fry sausage and bacon. On each wooden plate place a generous helping of mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, a Leberknödel, a slice of pork, one sausage and a slice of bacon. Serve with hot mustard.

FOR THE LEBERKNÖDEL: They are the size of a tennis ball and are served as a main dish, in beef bouillon as a main dish, or in soup before a meal.

Cut stale bread including crusts in very thin slices, about 1/16 inch thick. Pour heated, but not boiled, milk over stale bread and let sit for 1 hour. Chop onion. Fry onion and parsley until onion is glassy. Set aside.

Cut liver in strips and grind twice.

After the bread has soaked for 1 hour fill a large soup pot one half full of salted water and bring to a rolling boil.

Add all the ingredients to the soaked bread and knead to a uniform consistency. The dough must be well mixed so that no chunks or pieces of bread remain.

With wet hands form a Knödel (ball), about the size of a tennis ball and drop into the boiling water. Dip hands in cold water after making each Knödel and repeat to make a total of six Knödels and medium boil, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove and serve hot.

FOR THE SAUERKRAUT: Germans consume it by the thousands of tons in every way, shape and form. The most favorite of which is sauerkraut.

Wash and drain the sauerkraut.

Simmer the kraut slowly in hot lard for about 5 minutes, turning often with a fork until it has absorbed the melted lard.

Note: When using fresh sauerkraut from the barrel, add boiling water with 2 tsp. salt just to cover the sauerkraut. Cover. Simmer slowly two hours and then after two hours proceed as below to complete cooking.

Note: When using canned or bottled sauerkraut, add enough boiling water with 2 level tsp. of salt just to cover sauerkraut. Proceed Immediately as below.

Peel onion, leave whole. Peel and slice apple. Salt pork. Add pork, onion, apple and juniper berries to Kraut. Simmer slowly, covered, 1 hour or until pork is done.

Mix flour with 1/4 cup cold water. Peel and finely grate raw potato. Add flour/water mixture and potato. Mix well and add to sauerkraut. Simmer for an additional 10 to 15 minutes. Salt to taste.

Source: Miller's German Cookbook

Quoting from [germex]:

German Bauernschmaus (“Farmers’ Feast”)

 

Pork, Sausages, Bacon, Sauerkraut and Leberknödel 

 

 

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Quoting from [germex]:

Quoting from [davadi]:I will appreciate if you send 1 to me grandpa, I will try how germany food

Send one? Man, I'm even too lazy to prepare one for myself!

But perhaps I can find a girlfriend who likes to cook...

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Quoting from [davadi]: Come on, you can find a girlfriend who agree living together without marry her and also can cooking ?

Actually, I really donot agree with living together without married

Quoting from [germex]:

Quoting from [davadi]: Come on, you can find a girlfriend who agree living together without marry her and also can cooking ?

Actually, I really donot agree with living together without married

I only said that she would cook...