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Flour-Based Recipes and Sweet Main Dishes

Dampfnudeln, Klöβe, Knödel and other wonderful dishes await you await you after school and before homework. Some of these recipes are sweet, others are savory. Some are baked in the oven, others on the top of the stove.
Austrian Pancake Recipe - Kaiserschmarrn Recipe with Raisins
Kaiserschmarren is an Austrian pancake which you may have ordered at a ski resort once. This Austrian recipe is a classic sweet dinner from flour (Mehlspeise) and often served at the midday meal. Kaiserschmarrn is a delicious, sweetened pancake with raisins commonly cooked in Austria and Bavaria.
Austrian Germknoedel - Steamed Sweet Austrian Dumplings Recipe
Germknoedel, or Sweet Austrian Dumplings are made from a sweet yeast dough wrapped around plum butter and steamed. These Austrian Dumplings are served with butter or vanilla sauce and poppy seeds crushed with sugar for lunch. Also known as "kynuté knedlíky" in Czech, they are found most often in Bavaria, Bohemia (Czech Republic) and Austria. Typical and traditional, Germknoedel are easy to make, but take a little time to rise and steam.
Berlin Rice Pudding Casserole Recipe - Rezept fuer Berliner Milchreis
Make a wonderful and fluffy German casserole recipe with rice, milk, eggs and fruit. Baked in the oven, this milchreis recipe is delicious warm or cold. A traditional German mittagessen treat, try a rice pudding recipe for a change.
Griessauflauf mit Kirschen - Sweet Farina Casserole with Cherries
A German recipe for a sweet main dish, this Farina Casserole with Fresh Cherries - Griessauflauf Recipe - is delicious warm from the oven. Beaten egg whites give this auflauf with cherries lots of lift in the oven. Traditional German food for the after school lunch.
Simple German Rice Pudding - How to Make Milchreis
German rice pudding, or Milchreis, is a sweet German main dish that is served to children. Milchreis is made with milk, short grain rice, sugar and vanilla or cinnamon flavorings. German rice pudding is usually served with cinnamon and sugar, cherry or other fruit compote.
Flour Dumplings with Vanilla Sauce - Dampfnudeln
While most Americans expect to eat savory foods at lunch and dinner, Germans will often bypass the savory and fill you up with noodles or dumplings that are sweetened with fruit compote and vanilla sauce.

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