East Germany

Baked asparagus is a hearty option for preparing asparagus. Together with ham, the asparagus goes into a potato dough and is fried.

The city of Zerbst/Anhalt belongs to the Spargenanbeigegebiete. Here a special asparagus soup and date of the to the asparagus festival. (Asparagus peeling competition)

A quick spoon dish of the Sorbs with red cabbage and potatoes.

Hoppel Poppel is a simple, hearty dish made from leftovers that can be prepared very quickly.

Spreewald gherkins are simply great tasting in the original. We have here old original recipes - very simple - very tasty.

Grown more than 300 years ago as a poor man's food, Teltower turnips are now a much sought-after delicacy that is not available everywhere.

Classically prepared from calf's liver, this is a very simple and especially early typical Berlin dish. Here's the recipe with onions, apples and crispy pancetta.

Leipziger Allerlei is originally a Saxon vegetable dish with crayfish and morels. Today it is also a side dish. Old recipe.

This pastry is deceptive with its appearance: Meissner Fummel are hollow dumplings and therefore very fragile. They are made of a sweet wafer dough.

Leipziger Lerchen are a sweet shortcrust pastry filled with marzipan, reminiscent of the old form of pies that were actually filled with songbirds. Every Leipzig baker has his own family recipe here and the appearance also varies.

Berlin is always reinventing itself - old and new recipes from the capital. Whether Hoppel-Poppel or Berliner; there is a lot to try.

The Rostbrätel or colloquially Rostbrätl is in Thuringia often right next to the Roster (Thuringian Rostbratwurst) on the grill. Typical is the marinating of the meat with onion and beer for several hours. And: the addition of beer during the barbecue. recipe

You can easily prepare crunchy gherkins yourself in a jar. Here is a recipe from the Spreewald.

Beer fish: This is a recipe from the Altmark with the basic ingredients fish, beer and gingerbread. In the end, it's fish in a brown sauce.

Onion market bread is a hearty specialty from the onion market in Weimar. Here is the original recipe for a snack between meals.

What is the Thuringian Rostbratwurst all about? Info recipe and addresses of barbecue stands for the so-called Roster.