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Potato Pancakes
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Pumpernickel Bread and German Syrup
(Reibekuchen mit Zuckerruebensirup)

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Reibekuchen is the name of potato pancakes in the Rhineland area of Germany.

My grandma who lived in Baden always called them Kartoffelpuffer, They are very similar in recipe just a different name.

Reibe = Grated and Kuchen of course means cake. My friend Dieter Monka gave me this recipe from Cologne in the Rhineland area that they serve using a syrup that is popular in that area that is made from Sugar Beets, called Ruebensirup, or Zuckerruebensirup or Ruebenkraut.

 

Ingredients:

Use your favorite Potato Pancake Recipe

Here are a few.

Rolf's Potato Pancakes
Barb's Potato Pancakes
Emma's Potato Pancakes

Pumpernickel Bread

Rübensirup (Beet Sugar Syrup) You can use other types of syrup if desired.

This also called Zuckerruebensirup, or Ruebenkraut.
It is a mild syrup that is different than Maple Syrup,
made from Sugar Beets.

You can make your own also
Recipe for Ruebensirup

 


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Put down a slice of Pumpernickel bread

Top with some Rübensirup or your choice of syrup.
Here is a recipe to make your own Ruebensirup

Here is a recipe for Ruebensirup

Top with 1 or 2 potato pancakes and a little more of the syrup.

You can top it with apple sauce.

 

This is an Apfelmus or applesauce.

Here is a recipe for Apfelmus

With Apfelmus and Sausage more a typical American breakfast

 

 


Goldsaft

Grafschafter
Original Sugar Beet Syrup,

16 oz Jar

Known as Ruebensirup or Ruebenkruat in Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

Potato Pancakes Rolf

Emma's Potato Pancakes

 

 

 
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