Re: Spatzle (was I've got a baby in my bottom...)

[Guest guest]

> The answer was " spatzle " which is the South German word for egg noodles. >

Phyllis

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Mmmmmmm I lurve spatzle!! Friend from work is in Germany at the moment and

I've put in anorder for some. Don't suppose anybody knows of anywhere you

can get them in this country??

[Guest guest]

> Mmmmmmm I lurve spatzle!! Friend from work is in Germany at the

moment and

> I've put in anorder for some. Don't suppose anybody knows of

anywhere you

> can get them in this country??

no, but if I think hard I can remember the recipe! I worked in a

bavarian restaurant in Augsburg and used to make them in huge

quantities...erm....it's a basic pasta dough of flour, egg and

water but looser iirc...2 eggs rather than 1 and more water. The

thing you need though is a spatzle-machine (!) which is like a

flat cheesegrater with a box (which holds the doughy stuff) on

top and you grate the dough into boiling water. You could

probably improvise with slightly stiffer dough and a

cheesegrater. Add cooked spinach for spinatspatzle (mine of

useless info, I am).

We used to make the spatzle in a huge cauldron which was set on a

low gas burner about 2ft above the ground. I'd grate the mixture

into the boiling water, turn round to the huge bowlful of dough,

fill up the grater, turn round, grate in more dough, wait a

couple of mins, scoop out the cooked spatzle and pop them in a

pot of cold water to cool. I got into a lovely little routine

and was mindlessly grating and popping and filling away, all the

while thinking I could smell something singeing. Being a messy

cook, I thought I'd probably just spilled some down the side of

the pan and it was catching on the gas flame. Grate grate, fill

fill, pop pop <sniff sniff>...grate, fill <sniff> pop...grate

grate <I can definitely smell something burning...> grate...gosh

my bottom feels warm....<sniff...glance over shoulder...HELP! MY

BUM'S ON FIREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!>

My too-big chef's whites had been touching the edge of the gas

flame every time I turned away from the gas burner to get more

dough, and eventually they caught alight. Luckily I was rescued

by the head chef who kindly threw a pot of just-cooling spatzle

over my backside!!!

Could have been a frightening experience but luckily it was just

a very funny one :-)

who doesn't cook with flappy clothes on anymore...

PS - think this subject line must win 'weird email header of the

month', don't you?

[Guest guest]

No, but if you come across it, let me know. My DH would be MOST

appreciative!

> The answer was " spatzle " which is the South German word for egg

noodles. >

Phyllis

>

> __________________________________________________

Mmmmmmm I lurve spatzle!! Friend from work is in Germany at the moment

and

I've put in anorder for some. Don't suppose anybody knows of anywhere

you

can get them in this country??

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