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    Is that a cooked bread dough or is it raw? If so it sounds like a variant on gnocchi, knoedel, kloesse, which are more or less the same thing. There are lots of regional variants, so if you know which part of Germany, that will help narrow it down. Commented May 8, 2025 at 21:16
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    Might be Knoepfle pronounced nurffla, though those are just boiled I think. Commented May 8, 2025 at 21:21
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    Tangentially related: (if you’re from the US/anywhere not Germany) it could also be an immigrant-specific food. I learned semi-recently that the “kuchen” (which is just German for “cake”) recipe in my family was specifically from the wave of German immigrants to the North/South Dakota region (known as “Dakota kuchen”). It’s not a traditional German dessert AFAIK. I give this anecdote to show that your recipe could well be another such situation, if nothing turns up about it being a traditional German dish. Commented May 8, 2025 at 22:08
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    @bob1 Its a standard bread dough. The exact recipe varies, but its typically boiled like a noodle first, then fried for a short time. Ive added a picture of the dish. We cooked it tonight so I could get some pictures. Commented May 8, 2025 at 22:23
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    ". The bread is served with minced and fried Tuna patties or other Tuna dishes, and is eaten with the fish, often with lemon juice sprinkled onto the bread and fish." This part strongly hints at at least a decent bit of removal from the original tradition(s) that this dish came from because both lemons but especially tuna are not a thing in traditional German cuisine. The fish simply doesn't live anywhere near here and isn't special enough to be widely imported until very recently Commented May 9, 2025 at 12:04