Regional Dishes - Germany: Harzer Knäzchen and Harzer Potato Salad

„Harzer Knäzchen“ (meatballs)

Shopping list

4 onions

500 g minced meat

4 tablespoons Breadcrumbs

2 eggs

1 tablespoon mustard

salt

pepper

majoran

1 tablespoon caraway

1 tablespoon flour

2 tablespoons butter

oil

- Peel the onions; two onions into rings and two into small pieces!

- Mix up minced meat with onion pieces, egg yolk, breadcrumbs, mustard, salt, pepper,

caraway and 1 tablespoon of majoran!

- Form meat balls and press them!

- Heat the oil and roast the “ Knäzchen” on both sides!

- Roll the onionrings in flour and roast them in the butter!

- Prepare the “Knäzchen” together with the roasted onions!

“Harzer” Potato salad

Shopping list ( for 4 persons)

750 g potatos

1 teaspoon salt

250 g Rapunzellettuce ( lamb’s lettuce)

2 onions

Dressing:

3 tablespoons white wine vinegar

2 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 knife point pepper

6 tablespoons oil

- Peel the potatoes and cook them in salted water, but not to soft!

- Peel the onions and cut them into small pieces!

- Wash the lettuce and dry it !

- Cool the cooked potatoes and cut them into cubes

- Now make the dressing and mix it up with the potatoes, the onions and the lettuce!

The “Knäzchen” and the “Harzer potato salad” are well suited to each other and are very delicious.

Regional dishes - Poland. German cookies baked by Polish students - Ola and Martyna from class 2b

Regional dishes: German Christmas cookies prepared by Polish students – Martyna and Ola Z., class 2b.



· 3 big whites

· 1 2/3 glasses of icing sugar

· 1 2/3 glasses of grinded almonds

· 2 spoons of flour

· 2 teaspoons of cinnamon

· 1/4 teaspoon of almond essence

· 1/8 teaspoon of salt



Heat up the oven to 150°C. Beat egg whites to a froth. Then add icing sugar, 3/4 glass of almonds, flour, cinnamon, almond essence and salt. Mix everything together. The dough should be glutinous. Roll up the dough on the rest of grinded almonds and cut out the cookies using moulds. Bake cookies for 30-40 minutes.



First of all we were going to work in a group of three with Anna Król but she was ill. So we decided to prepare the cookies without her. We had some problems with dough – it didn’t have good consistency and we couldn’t cut out cookies. Finally we managed to fix it adding more flour. The cookies were very tasty but really hard at the same time.



Aleksandra Zwijacz

Martyna Widomska

Class 2b

Regional dishes - Poland. A Spanish salad prepared by Polish students - Kinga, Agnieszka and Paulina

Wombat fruit salad

1. Ingredients
{ 2 bananas
{ 1 apple
{ 1 orange
{ 6 mandarins
{ 2 kiwi fruits
{ 1 avocado
{ 1 coconut
{ bunch of red grapes
{ bunch of white grapes
{ 2 big strawberry yoghurts

2. Preparing
Wash and peel fruits. Cut them up into pieces. Throw fruits into a bowl and pour them over yoghurt. Mix the salad and garnish it with hearts made of colorful paper. Salad is ready to be eaten!

Wombat
Make two holes in coconut and put straws into them. Spear red grapes on straws as a wombat’s eyes. Additionally make a wombat’s nose from white grape. Use mandarins for making lips and hands. All fruits pin on coconut. Wombat is ready to delight everybody with its appearance!

3. Short relation
Everything was done quite fast and efficiently. We were sneaking a bit and giggling while cooking. Kinga was telling really funny stories. Agnieszka was reading (loudly of course) our horoscopes. Agnieszka’s brother started filming our culinary show but Paulina figured out what was going on and changed over the settings of camera. She didn’t want to be photographed but she took part in salad’s making.

4. Taste impressions
Our salad was delicious! Avocado and kiwi fruits gave it exotic, Spanish taste. Our families found it really tasty too. We didn’t decided to consume wombat as it was to sweet to be killed (or even eaten). Well, the real reason of wombat’s surviving was our desire for not hurting wombat's lovers' feelings :)

Regional dishes - Poland. A German cake prepared by Polish students - Olivia, Justyna and Magda from class 3g

RECIPE for cake Baden - Baden

Ingredients:

The cake and the filling:
- 20 dag flour
- 10 dag of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 spoonfull of baking powder
- 10 dag of margarine
- one pack of vanilla pudding
- 5 big apples
- cinnamon

Crumble:
- 7.5 dag of butter
- 7.5 dag of sugar
- 15 dag of flour
(If you want you can use biscuits)

Cake Baden - Baden preparation:

Cook vanilla pudding, cool (the best in bigger pot with cold water). Grate apples into dick peaces, at ones discretion add cinnamon and sugar. Knead the cake and put into the circle mould with diameter 24 cm. On the cake regularly put apples with cinnamon and spill it by ready pudding. Scatter a crumble on the cake. After put it to the oven and bake it for 35 - 40 minutes in 180 degrees centigrade or to momment when crumble change colour to gold. After take from oven put in to the frige for all night.


A few word from us:
This cake was delicious but we had many problems... When we started cooking we noticed that we haven't got a milk. We had to go to shop and buy it. Spoon was in was in the pot with pudding, eggs were flying and flour was on the floor. But we had happy end.