LeRoy Boespflug writes in the Introduction, “The goal of this cookbook is to offer the reader traditional country recipes of German descent. I have “sprinkled” short anecdotes throughout this book in an attempt to share country traditions and practices associated with harvesting, cooking, and baking on the family farm. The names of the recipes have been labeled using our family’s “low” German dialect brought over from Germany and Russia when the family immigrated to the United States.”
LeRoy Boespflug is the compiler of the popular cookbook, “Family Recipes From German Tradition” available from GRHC.
The cookbook includes these recipes:
Noodle Dishes – Schupp Noodla, Varrafla Noodla, Grumbara Un Noodla (Noodles & Potatoes), Rame Noodla (Noodles, macaroni, made with cream), Kase, Kraut and Onion Knip (Cheese, Sauerkrauft & Onion Buttons), Kase Knepfla Filling (Chesse Buttons).
Soups and Main Dishes – Knephla Soup (With Chicken), Knip (Rolld Out Method), Borscht Suppe (German Vegetable Soup), Hinkel Supper (Chicken Noodle Soup), Milch Suppe (Milk Soup), Bohne Suppe (Bean Soup), Grumbara Suppe (Potato Soup), Hinkel Mit Rahm (Cream Style Chicken), Fleischkuechla, Rice And Rosienla (Rice and Raisins), Haluptsie (Pigs in the Planket/Cabbage Rolls),
Pies – Homemade Pie Crust Dough, Mashed Potato Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Rhubarb Pudding Pie, Cottage Cheese Pie, Custard Pie, Sour Cream Raisin Pie.
Breads and Pastries – Swett Roll Dough, Schlitz Kuchla, Baska (Easter Bread), Vasser Kippel (Twists), Plachinda, Kuchen, Kuchen Filling, Sugar Kuchen, German Twists, Baked Strudel, Kraut Runza, Vissas Brot (Homemade White Bread), Sow Krappa (Pigs’ Ears), Schneeballa (Snow Balls),
Pickled Vegetables – Sweet Pickles, Pickled Beets, Pickled Carrots, Pickled Watermelon Rinds.
Sausage and Curing – Summer Sausage, Pork Sausage, Blutwurst (Blood Sausage), Bologna (Ring or Stick Style), Knockwurst, Liverwurst, Meat Loaf, Jerky, Roast Turkey, Cure for Ham or Bacon, Cure for Corned Beef,
Old Time Wines – Rhubarb Wines, Chokecherry Wine, Fruit Liqueur, Beet Wine, Dandelion Wine, Grape Wine, Fruit Wine, Red Eye (Homemade Schnapps)
