German Recipes

"Our family favorite country-style green beans, with bacon and onion. These are just like my German grandmother made (the lemon is my addition) -- she always used fresh green beans from the farmer's market -- but canned green beans will do just fine. Delicious! A really great side dish (can be made ahead) for the holidays, or anytime."

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Ingredients: cut green beans, fresh lemon juice...

"As a German woman, it breaks my heart to see all of these 'black forest cakes' in North America made with sickeningly sweet icing and gross cherry pie filling.This cake isn't meant to be very sweet but is rather a dessert for adults with deep rich flavours and enough alcohol to make your head spin! If you cannot get fresh cherries you can use canned..."

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Ingredients: cocoa powder, kirsch, dry milk...

"Yes, this sounds bizarre, but it really is tasty and I have had some that was going around for months. It is a nice thing to start at work, school, church, etc. Try it...it's like a chain cake instead of a chain letter :)"

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Ingredients: cinnamon, crushed pineapple...

"A yummy recipe from Beyond Parsley cookbook. This makes 2 strudel rolls. If you're not familiar with phyllo dough. It can be delicate. I unroll the phyllo sheets and keep them covered with a slightly damp, clean kitchen towel - taking out 1 sheet at a time to work with. This keeps your phyllo from drying out. Use a pastry brush to spread the melted..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, confectioners' sugar...

"This is an authentic German bread recipe found on chefkoch.de. My husband, being German, finds North American bread recipes to "sweet" for sandwiches. This bread is very good and quite healthy. You can use either white flour, whole wheat, ry or whole grain. I prefer using whole grain. If you substitute rye flour you may have to use..."

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Ingredients: flax seeds, salt, sesame seeds...

"My husband created the best Reuben around! Serve with a dill pickle and Enjoy!"

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Ingredients: Russian salad dressing, gouda cheese...

"Use as a quick cake topping. Even though it is not really a dairy product, you should still keep anything topped with this topping in the refrigerator."

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Ingredients: powdered sugar, vanilla extract...

"I grew up eating this salad and love it. It's a bit different than most North American cucumber salads I've seen as there is no sour cream in it, only a simple oil and vinegar dressing. Usually it's been made using only cucumbers but sometime cooked green and/or yellow beans and/or tomatoes are added. The quantity of oil and vinegar dressing may need..."

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Ingredients: fresh ground pepper, green beans...