Timeline for Traditional German recipe involving boiled and fried bread, with seasoned Tuna and Lemon Juice?
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| Jun 30, 2025 at 20:30 | comment | added | cbeleites | From my German perspective, I wouldn't call a dough with eggs a "typical bread dough". Dough with eggs and boiling sounds like noodles to me. | |
| May 15, 2025 at 21:44 | comment | added | Hilmar | Tuna makes this very unlikely to be traditionally German (at least as described). When I grew up in Germany, you could get tuna in a can, but fresh tuna was rare and canned tuna hasn't been around all that long | |
| May 11, 2025 at 16:57 | answer | added | PLL | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10, 2025 at 10:50 | comment | added | Bernhard Döbler | I guess tuna isn't a traditional German fish | |
| May 10, 2025 at 8:17 | comment | added | phipsgabler | Interesting. To me, the combination between fried dough, lemon juice, and fish doesn't sound too absurd for a recipe from around 1900 with Italian influences. I've searched Katharina Prato's Süddeutsche Küche, which contains a lot of similar combinations, but couldn't find a match in name or content. The most exotic feature IMHO is the boiling and frying of the dough. Could it actually be a Jewish recipe with a Yiddish name? | |
| May 9, 2025 at 16:55 | comment | added | Marti | By "bread dough", do you mean it contains yeast? | |
| May 9, 2025 at 12:04 | comment | added | QuestionablePresence | ". 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 | |
| May 9, 2025 at 10:32 | answer | added | rumtscho♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 9, 2025 at 4:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 8, 2025 at 23:33 | vote | accept | Ferinix | ||
| May 8, 2025 at 23:29 | comment | added | bob1 | I still think the word you might be looking for is the one I linked above. Some times written kniffle, which with a bit of passage through a couple of generations of english speakers, might come out sounding like nyff or nymph. Very similar to spaetlze from Switzerland. | |
| May 8, 2025 at 22:23 | comment | added | Ferinix | @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. | |
| May 8, 2025 at 22:23 | history | edited | Ferinix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Edited to add pictures of our recreation of the family recipe
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| May 8, 2025 at 22:08 | comment | added | fyrepenguin | 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. | |
| May 8, 2025 at 21:37 | comment | added | jmk | There are some dough based Klöße/Knödel but they are round or are cooked in a cloth. I am not aware of any flat variant which Sounds more like a pasta (Nudel in German) | |
| May 8, 2025 at 21:25 | answer | added | jmk | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 8, 2025 at 21:21 | comment | added | bob1 | Might be Knoepfle pronounced nurffla, though those are just boiled I think. | |
| May 8, 2025 at 21:16 | comment | added | bob1 | 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. | |
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| S May 8, 2025 at 20:20 | history | asked | Ferinix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |