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

Question

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.

Answer 1

The only dish I can think of that fits in with that extremely unusual combination is the Saarland dish "Himbeer Klösse", where the German 'noodles' your grandmother mentioned were an anglicisation of the alternative German word for "Klösse", which is "Knödel". Both, however, are actually potato & 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 Klösse/Knödel are dumplings formed from potato & 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 Klösse 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.

Answer 2

heil hitler stew