A Conversation for Spaetzle - a German Noodle Speciality
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shagbark Started conversation Jun 7, 2010
I suspect some German settlers brought their "egg noodles" to the new world and started making them there.
My Grandmother Kocher had a dish similar to the one here
http://www.pennsylvaniadutchnoodles.com/recipes/promote/country-style-ham-and-noodles
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Pit - ( Carpe Diem - Stay in Bed ) Posted Jun 13, 2010
Shagbark, spot on. Settlers tended to stay together - and the "Pennsylvania Dutch" are Pennsylvania Deutsch, not Dutch, from Spätzle eating counties.
Friends tell me that traditional receipes in the Carolinas would be very familiar to any German from Hessia and some known in the NY and NJ area to our northeners.
Unfortunately for you, most people from my tiny county (Lippe, nowadays part of Westphalia) came as single men who enlisted in both American wars instead of starving at home - no wife, no cooking. Our secret wunderwaffe, the Pickert, never got a foothold in America.
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