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A pickert (German: [ˈpɪkɐt] ) is a flat, fried or baked potato dish from Westphalia, Germany.[1] It can be considered a kind of flattened dumpling or very nourishing pancake. It comes as a round Pfannenpickert the size of a pan, a rectangular Kastenpickert, or a palm-sized regular Pickert. The name is derived from Low German picken, pecken ("to stick something onto something else").
Type | Dumpling |
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Place of origin | Germany |
Region or state | Lippe and Westphalia |
Main ingredients | Potatoes, flour, milk, eggs, usually raisins, yeast, salt, sugar, oil |
The main ingredients are grated potatoes, flour, milk, eggs, and (usually) raisins, with a little yeast, salt and sugar, and oil for the baking. Three big potatoes produce 10–15 palm-sized pickerts, enough for 4–5 people.
Pickerts are a specialty of the district of Lippe, where they developed from a traditional meal for the poorer people. In former times, Pickert was eaten as breakfast or lunch by poor farmers, being a cheap and very nourishing dish, as would be required of food for a day's work in the fields.[2] They are now served spread with sugar beet syrup, butter or (plum) jam, or leberwurst.[3]
A related dish, Lappenpickert, is found in the regions west of Lippe, towards Münster and the Ruhr Area. It does not usually contain raisins and yeast, but may have a dash of sweet cream added. Lappenpickert is usually baked in rather thin pancakes on a griddle greased with a side of lard, and eaten with the same spreads as Pickerts from Lippe, or with smoked fish or cold cuts.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Pickert | Traditional Pancake From Westphalia | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ^ "Pickert | Traditional Pancake From Westphalia | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ^ "Pickert | Traditional Pancake From Westphalia | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
External links
edit- Recipe on FoodFamily.net
- Recipe and more information on lipperland.de - German
- Recipe on the website of the City of Detmold - German
- Recipe from Detmold-Brokhausen - German
- Recipe on lippisches.de - German
- Recipes and Stories around the Pickert on lippischer-pickert.de - German