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| Oma Frieda's Grießklößchen mit Kirschen |
Grießklößchen mit Kirschen, or "semolina dumplings with cherries", is a simple recipe that I learned from Sandra's Grandma Frieda. Semolina dumplings are topped with crunchy fried bread crumbs and sour cherries. At first it looks like a dessert, but there's actually no sugar added to it at all, and is eaten as a meal in itself. We made it frequently earlier this year when I wasn't working, for a meal that was cheap and filling, but still tasty. (As the keener-eyed among you will notice, this set of pictures was taken at my old place!)
I've had these photos sitting in my drafts for a while now, but I'm sharing it with you now as my contribution to the "Bloggers Around the World" challenge created by Chris from Cooking Around the World. The first round's theme is Germany! Yay! I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share this recipe with you*, and indulge in a bit of cultural discussion. The depiction and impressions of Germany in Chris' post really resonated with me, and I'm glad I found the time to join in the challenge!
Here in Australia, the image we have of Germany and German food tends to be Bavarian (you know, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen, Dirndls, pork knuckle, Weisswurst, those blue-and-white chequered flags) - but Bavaria is just one part of this country, which I've come to learn is very diverse in language, culture and food. (And that's before you take recent waves of immigration into the equation!) On my last couple of trips to Germany, I remember being amazed that you could drive twenty minutes, and be in a town where the people have a different accent, and use different words for the same thing. I also remember asking some Lampertheimers about frankfurter Grüne Soße (a common recipe in "German" cookbooks) and being told, "I'm not sure what that is, it must be something that people in Frankfurt eat, I've never seen it". Frankfurt's only a 30 minute drive from Lampertheim!! Cray cray!
Oma Frieda's cooking notebooks are amazing - she was 95 when she sadly passed away last year, so you can imagine how old her notebooks are. Many of them are written in Old German, which few people read or write these days (it's lucky that Sandra knows how!). However, lots of her notes are written in an even older script: Sütterlin, which I'm told is pretty much illegible for young Germans.
I wanted to show you a couple of Oma Frieda's recipes for Grießklößchen - the first is written in Sütterlin, and the second is written in modern German. (Don't worry, I've translated it into English below!)
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| Oma Frieda's recipe for Grießklößchen - written in Sütterlin |
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| Oma Frieda's recipe for Grießklößchen - written in modern German |
And just like my Malaysian grandmothers' recipes, I see that Oma Frieda didn't include a method in her second recipe, just a list of ingredients. I guess some things stay constant across cultural boundaries!
So, assuming that none of y'all read Sütterlin and have already read and understood the recipe, let me show you the steps.
These are the ingredients you will need:
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| Ingredients |
So, you heat up the milk and water, then pour in the semolina, stirring to form a thick dough. (N.B. the semolina doesn't need to be fried or heated up first - I used a frying pan to measure and add the semolina because that was the only clean vessel I had at the time!)
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| Adding semolina to the liquids |
Then you add an egg and keep beating - elbow grease required here!
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| Adding the egg |
Once it's all combined, you take it off the heat and drop spoonfuls of the mixture into your serving bowls. If you were making this for someone special, like a beloved grandchild, you could make the dumplings all nice and smooth and pretty or quenelle shaped. But I'm perfectly happy with messy-looking dumplings!
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| Grießklößchen |
As for the crunchy breadcrumb topping, I haven't specified amounts in the recipe below - only you know how much crunchy topping you want, and how buttery you like it! You just melt some butter (or lard, or Schmalz, or vegetable fat), add in some breadcrumbs and stir over heat until it looks like wet sand and has started to go crunchy.
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| Crunchy breadcrumbs |
That's it! Sprinkle the crumbs over the dumplings and open a jar of sour cherries. I know it looks like I was a bit stingy with the cherries (only 8 in my bowl!), but I tend to keep the jar on the table, and keep adding them as I go. And I do add a lot of sour cherries because I love them so very much!
Enjoy and guten Appetit!!
Oma Frieda's Grießklößchen mit Kirschen
Sandra's grandmother's recipe
Ingredients
500 millilitres full cream milk
250 millilitres water
250 grams semolina
1 pinch salt
1 egg
Butter and fine breadcrumbs
1 jar sour (morello) cherries
Method
Heat the milk and water in a pan until just below boiling point. With the heat still on, add the semolina and salt, stirring well to form a thick paste. Add the egg and continue beating for a minute or two, until the mixture is smooth and the egg is cooked. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into serving bowls. (You can make fancy quenelle shapes if you want, you can make them big, small, it doesn't matter). Melt some butter in a frying pan and add the breadcrumbs. Stir until the mixture clumps together like wet sand and turns a bit crunchy. Sprinkle the crunchy crumbs over the semolina dumplings, and place the jar of cherries in the middle of the table for people to add as they like.
Serves 4
*I guess I could have just gone through my extensive archives of German food-related posts (91 posts and counting! 92 including this post!) and just added the badge to one of those, but I feel like that would have been cheating. And since when do I need an excuse to share even more German food with y'all!? As a bit of a reminder, and because I love making lists, here are links to all the German recipes on my blog so far:
Amerikaner - Black and White Cookies
Saftiger Nußkuchen - Juicy Nut Cake
Brezeln - Pretzels
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte - Black Forest Cake
Rotweinkuchen - Red Wine Cake
Oma Resel's Kartoffelsosse - Grandma Resel's Potato Sauce with Bread Dumplings
Gulaschsuppe - Goulash Soup
Apfelkuchen, Sehr Fein - Sunken Apple Cake
Schupfnudeln - (A type of potato dumpling)
Frikadellen - German Meatballs
Hünchensuppe mit Griessklöβchen - Chicken soup with Semolina Dumplings
Vanillakipferl - Vanilla Crescents
Sauerkraut mit Fleisch und Kartoffelbrei - Sauerkraut wit Meat and Mashed Potatoes
Schokoladenbrötchen - Chocolate Bread Roll
Pizza Brötchen - Pizza Bread Roll
Awesome German Cheesecake
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| Oma Frieda's Grießklößchen mit Kirschen |
Grießklößchen mit Kirschen, or "semolina dumplings with cherries", is a simple recipe that I learned from Sandra's Grandma Frieda. Semolina dumplings are topped with crunchy fried bread crumbs and sour cherries. At first it looks like a dessert, but there's actually no sugar added to it at all, and is eaten as a meal in itself. We made it frequently earlier this year when I wasn't working, for a meal that was cheap and filling, but still tasty. (As the keener-eyed among you will notice, this set of pictures was taken at my old place!)
I've had these photos sitting in my drafts for a while now, but I'm sharing it with you now as my contribution to the "Bloggers Around the World" challenge created by Chris from Cooking Around the World. The first round's theme is Germany! Yay! I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share this recipe with you*, and indulge in a bit of cultural discussion. The depiction and impressions of Germany in Chris' post really resonated with me, and I'm glad I found the time to join in the challenge!
Here in Australia, the image we have of Germany and German food tends to be Bavarian (you know, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen, Dirndls, pork knuckle, Weisswurst, those blue-and-white chequered flags) - but Bavaria is just one part of this country, which I've come to learn is very diverse in language, culture and food. (And that's before you take recent waves of immigration into the equation!) On my last couple of trips to Germany, I remember being amazed that you could drive twenty minutes, and be in a town where the people have a different accent, and use different words for the same thing. I also remember asking some Lampertheimers about frankfurter Grüne Soße (a common recipe in "German" cookbooks) and being told, "I'm not sure what that is, it must be something that people in Frankfurt eat, I've never seen it". Frankfurt's only a 30 minute drive from Lampertheim!! Cray cray!
Oma Frieda's cooking notebooks are amazing - she was 95 when she sadly passed away last year, so you can imagine how old her notebooks are. Many of them are written in Old German, which few people read or write these days (it's lucky that Sandra knows how!). However, lots of her notes are written in an even older script: Sütterlin, which I'm told is pretty much illegible for young Germans.
I wanted to show you a couple of Oma Frieda's recipes for Grießklößchen - the first is written in Sütterlin, and the second is written in modern German. (Don't worry, I've translated it into English below!)
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| Oma Frieda's recipe for Grießklößchen - written in Sütterlin |
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| Oma Frieda's recipe for Grießklößchen - written in modern German |
And just like my Malaysian grandmothers' recipes, I see that Oma Frieda didn't include a method in her second recipe, just a list of ingredients. I guess some things stay constant across cultural boundaries!
So, assuming that none of y'all read Sütterlin and have already read and understood the recipe, let me show you the steps.
These are the ingredients you will need:
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| Ingredients |
So, you heat up the milk and water, then pour in the semolina, stirring to form a thick dough. (N.B. the semolina doesn't need to be fried or heated up first - I used a frying pan to measure and add the semolina because that was the only clean vessel I had at the time!)
|
| Adding semolina to the liquids |
Then you add an egg and keep beating - elbow grease required here!
|
| Adding the egg |
Once it's all combined, you take it off the heat and drop spoonfuls of the mixture into your serving bowls. If you were making this for someone special, like a beloved grandchild, you could make the dumplings all nice and smooth and pretty or quenelle shaped. But I'm perfectly happy with messy-looking dumplings!
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| Grießklößchen |
As for the crunchy breadcrumb topping, I haven't specified amounts in the recipe below - only you know how much crunchy topping you want, and how buttery you like it! You just melt some butter (or lard, or Schmalz, or vegetable fat), add in some breadcrumbs and stir over heat until it looks like wet sand and has started to go crunchy.
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| Crunchy breadcrumbs |
That's it! Sprinkle the crumbs over the dumplings and open a jar of sour cherries. I know it looks like I was a bit stingy with the cherries (only 8 in my bowl!), but I tend to keep the jar on the table, and keep adding them as I go. And I do add a lot of sour cherries because I love them so very much!
Enjoy and guten Appetit!!
Oma Frieda's Grießklößchen mit Kirschen
Sandra's grandmother's recipe
Ingredients
500 millilitres full cream milk
250 millilitres water
250 grams semolina
1 pinch salt
1 egg
Butter and fine breadcrumbs
1 jar sour (morello) cherries
Method
Heat the milk and water in a pan until just below boiling point. With the heat still on, add the semolina and salt, stirring well to form a thick paste. Add the egg and continue beating for a minute or two, until the mixture is smooth and the egg is cooked. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into serving bowls. (You can make fancy quenelle shapes if you want, you can make them big, small, it doesn't matter). Melt some butter in a frying pan and add the breadcrumbs. Stir until the mixture clumps together like wet sand and turns a bit crunchy. Sprinkle the crunchy crumbs over the semolina dumplings, and place the jar of cherries in the middle of the table for people to add as they like.
Serves 4
*I guess I could have just gone through my extensive archives of German food-related posts (91 posts and counting! 92 including this post!) and just added the badge to one of those, but I feel like that would have been cheating. And since when do I need an excuse to share even more German food with y'all!? As a bit of a reminder, and because I love making lists, here are links to all the German recipes on my blog so far:
Amerikaner - Black and White Cookies
Saftiger Nußkuchen - Juicy Nut Cake
Brezeln - Pretzels
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte - Black Forest Cake
Rotweinkuchen - Red Wine Cake
Oma Resel's Kartoffelsosse - Grandma Resel's Potato Sauce with Bread Dumplings
Gulaschsuppe - Goulash Soup
Apfelkuchen, Sehr Fein - Sunken Apple Cake
Schupfnudeln - (A type of potato dumpling)
Frikadellen - German Meatballs
Hünchensuppe mit Griessklöβchen - Chicken soup with Semolina Dumplings
Vanillakipferl - Vanilla Crescents
Sauerkraut mit Fleisch und Kartoffelbrei - Sauerkraut wit Meat and Mashed Potatoes
Schokoladenbrötchen - Chocolate Bread Roll
Pizza Brötchen - Pizza Bread Roll
Awesome German Cheesecake
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