well for school we are suppose to bring food/desserts of a country that we were reaching on..i did germany so i need to bring german food...any suggestion what to bring...i prefer desserts though...i was thinking of some sort of german bread or somehting...or like are there any special salad or something....i just want to get something that is easy to make or i can easily get from local stores....
2006-11-13 10:08:21 · 12 answers · asked by katie 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
German Foods:
Hazelnuts
Hazelnut spread (similar to peanut butter, but made with hazelnuts and a bit of chocolate)
Bier ! = Beer (Heffe Weiss Bier, Hacker-Pshforr, Lowenbrau, Becks)
Apple wine = Apfel Wein from Frankfurt area
Rye bread = Rogen Brot
real rye bread, must be made without any added sugars or oils !!!
Pumpernickel - very dark, virtually black bread, sold in small square loaves, almost as small as a pound of butter (lasts almost forever, never goes moldy)
Schinken = Sliced ham (blackforest ham, etc)
Wieners of course ! or Frankfurters! (basically the same thing)
for boiling, and eat by itself with a bit of mustard
Bratwurst = frying sausage
Weisswurst = white sausage (specialty of southern Germany)
I don't know if your town has a delicatessen that makes it
Liverwurst (spread onto bread) = Leberwurst
German Salami , for sure
CHEESE ! they love many kinds of cheese, including from the neighbours, edam, gouda, swiss, but also limburger cheese (p.yu)
Tomato sandwiches : open faced sandwiches, Rye bred, with butter, and slices of tomatoe and sprinkled with chives and salt and pepper
Berliner or "Krebble" = original doughnut, very plain fruit/jam filled doughnut with powder sugar coating on the outside (authentic ones usually have plum-butter filling, or raspberry or cherry)
Rote Kraut !!! = Red Cabbage !!! chopped almost as thin like coleslaw but boiled in a little bit of water (and maybe some red-wine added) for a long time until its soft. (small chunks of apple pieces added is optional) It tastes better the day after, just re-heat it. Very healthy for the digestive system.
TEA - Chamomile Tea !!! = KamilleTee !!!
Peppermint tea !!!
Rose Hip Tea !!!
oh, and German's love a fine quality Kaffee ! Coffee !
Herring fish especially for northern Germany
Herring salad
Potato salad
and of course;
Marzipan (invented or at least big history about it from Luebeck Germany, near Denmark)
or Marzipan covered in dark chocolate !
and of course
many very high quality chocolates !
milk chocolate, dark chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate
Ritter Sport, Suchard, Sarotti, Lindtt, even Tobler (Swiss)
gummi bears , sour jelly candies
plum cake (similar to pineapple cake, but made with plums on top)
lemon pound cake
fine pastries
Cherry Flan
etc
2006-11-16 17:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by million$gon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look in the yellow pages and see if there is a Bavarian style bakery in your area.
I was stationed outside of Frankfurt for 3 years, and German food is pretty hearty and basic. Meat and potatos type of fare. As far sweets go, I didn't see anything super special, your typical danish type of desserts.
Try this link http://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/german-dessert-recipes.html
2006-11-13 10:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by jayh1969 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Around Christmas the larger supermarkets often carry
Lebkuchen (cookies) and Stollen ( a light fruit cake )
which would be easy to take in a nice bag with some
napkins ... you would not even need plates... just a knife
to cut the Stollen if it works out that way ... If you are friendswith the manager of any of the supermarkets near you , ask the manager to help you out. He should know.
2006-11-16 09:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you buy a smoked sausage ring, cut it into four pieces, and boil it for ten minutes, then put it into a pan with two cups of sauerkraut and some diced onion and saute' it over medium heat, that makes a delicious main course.
If you want a side dish, a very delicious one is german potato salad: slice several potatoes very thinly (I use the long thin blade on my cheese grater) and boil them until soft. Then drain and set them aside. Fry about six slices of bacon until crispy, and crumble them, but save the drippings too, and use them to fry up one medium diced onion. Then in a bowl, combine the crumbled bacon, onion pieces and bacon drippings, potatoes (which should be cooled down) and about half a cup of vinegar and a quarter cup of olive oil. Stir it all together, add salt, pepper, and garlic powder until it's seasoned the way you like it. (It's very open to adjusting the seasoning--I like mine to have a little garlic but a lot of vinegar.) German potato salad, plain and simple. And OH MY GOODNESS it's good.
2006-11-13 17:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Someone who cares 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Apple strudel is a very popular dessert. German chocolate cake is not German at all; it refers to the name of German's Chocolate; a company that produces types of baking chocolate.
2006-11-13 13:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretzels!!! Germans are noted for their great Bavarian style pretzels. Mind you they are huge...so you might not find them in the store...but you can find the American versions just about anywhere. Have some strong German mustards: Sweet, coarse or hot to dip them into.
2006-11-13 11:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by punchie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Black Forest Cake,.. chocolate cake with a layer of cherries or if you cheat - cherry pie filling and a white or chocolate frosting. Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker cakes work well for this.
Oh Apple Struedel?
2006-11-13 10:14:42 · answer #7 · answered by teritaur 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Strudle
2006-11-13 10:13:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
German Chocolate cake?
2006-11-13 10:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by Christina H 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Schwarzwald cake...
http://www.schwarzwald-tage.de/recipe/index.html
2006-11-13 10:20:26 · answer #10 · answered by njuk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋