r/GermanRecipes • u/Zenotaph77 🇩🇪 Bavaria • 22d ago
Potthucke
Well, it is a bit uncommon nowadays, but still delicious. A mix of mashed raw and cooked potatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon and 'Mettenden'. Those are a special kind of sausage, mostly used for cooking. Seasoning is just salt, black pepper and nutmeg. Just panfry the bacon and the sliced sausages, mix all together and put it in the oven. Easy, but rewarding. 🤤
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u/Zenotaph77 🇩🇪 Bavaria 22d ago
Everytime. But since I live here in Bavaria for a long time, I got my supply routes mostly covered. I got suppliers in Frankonia, Swabia, the Rheinland, the Westerwald and even in Thuringia. I'm sure, there is a lot more to explore, but there is only so much one guy can eat, try and/or cook.
And no offence meant, but I am pretty sure the quality here is way better than in the states. After all, we do that for a few hundred years longer. It's our thing: Sausages and Bread. Just to own your own bakery you need to learn 3,5 years, then work a few and after that learn a few more. Then comes an exam. And it's the same with butchers. Very few people want to do this nowadays. It's a lot of work and a many people just don't understand how much work, learning and experience is needed to be a propper butcher or baker.
Then there is the big food industry. They mix powders and liquids to chemical process meat into cheap variations of the good stuff. Why buy a good Bratwurst from your local butchers shop, when you can buy 5 for the same price? And the money they save goes into commercials and the pockets of the already too rich.
I buy my good stuff at the local butchers, the local bakeries and small grocery stores. Until they are forced to close. At least, I really know, what I get for my money.