Pressed Spätzle

These are from my friend Oliver Mühling who is a Swäbisher living in SInsheim, near Heidelberg. He sent me this picture recently of the Spaetzle that his mom makes with a Spätzle Schob or Spätzle press. This is different from my grandma's, because the noodles are so much longer and round. You need a stiffer dough, which you just add more flour too.

Here I added more flour and got almost as thick as bread.

If you don't have a Spätzle press I find you can make long noodles by holding up the tool and keeping your push tool flat when you press so the noodles don't get cut off so quick.

Makes Sense?

Gaisburger Marsch

This thick stew like soup has a wonderful history to it as well as being a nice showcase of great German cooking. It is an enriched beef stock simmered with potatoes and vegetables and sprinkled with Spätzles and topped with caramelized onion slices.

Lentils and Spätzle

This is a simple and popular dish to put together.
On a bed of Spätzle you ladle some thick
Lentil Soup and then top it with a a good quality Frankfurter.
One that has a natural casing is best.

This is a popular dish when you need a vegetarian one,
You just leave the meat out.

Go here to make some
good thick Lentil soup

This is the
Knoephla Suppe
That has become so popular in certain parts of the
U.S. that I think is important to bring in to this discussion

Popular in the Dakotas, and just above in Canada,
The soup makes long ropes then cuts them in 1 inch pieces.

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Here are some old Spätzle tools,
from the Spätzle Wonder site

Plane-Model, yes, that's the name, from 1920

Knöpfle-plane from around 1930 - Design familiar?

Spätzle-Schob (Spätzle press)

Knoepfle Mühle from 1920

Spätzle Schaben

It could be this was the first

Many folks feel this is the most authentic and craftsman like way to make these Spätzles.

My grandma had a rotary Spätzle machine that you would crank.

Very Old Spätzle-Brett (Spätzle Board)

This site here shows how to make them with this tool

"Spätzleslied" by Egon Holz

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Das Kochrezept (Spätzlessong) - schwäbisch

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I try to get in bulk to make the shipping dollars count.
Also there are sales all the time I like to take advantage of.
They are nice folks. If you don't believe me call them.
and tell them Stephen Block sent you from the German Goodies Newsletter.
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