My family would make something very similar. We would make really big dried curds dumplings then boil them. Then we would make a sourcream and onion sauce where you saute some onions and cook a whole container of sourcream till it liquefied then you pour that on top on each person's plates

YES! This looks like MY grandmother's Käseknöpfe - so I HOPE I can find your kuchen - which was even more frequently seen in her kitchen! I should add that my mother added her own wrinkle to cheese buttons: bits of PINEAPPLE! But if I can find apricot kuchen now, I'll die HAPPY!!!

Thank you for sharing this. I'm a ND native an I appreciate seeing this young lady sharing her history. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for posting this. I'm a native ND. I grow up around Mott, ND and I certainly appreciate watching this captured history of this amazing gal. Thank you for sharing. I'm proud of being part of this part of our Country. Thanks for sharing... Keep sharing... Thanks again.

Amazing video! I'm a ND native and I greatly appreciate your content. Thanks for sharing and keep doing what you're doing. Thanks again and stay healthy. Jason Bolte

Sehr schon wunderbar these poems are part of a rich history, never forget children from where your heritage came from.

My Grandma is German from Russia. She made these all the time growing up. Alzheimer's got the best of her and she could not recall the recipe. This video allowed me to get the basics, I added her tweaks from memory, and it came out perfect!! I have searched for videos everywhere... Thank you so much for posting!

I just found you...this. I have been making "nippla"...mom's, grandmas recipe for years...wish we could talk...share...do you make strudl,a?? Very thin dough e chickeni and potatoes

Good job Sue! I was in Linton this past weekend and saw your Women Behind the Plow exhibit at the Library. I also purchased your book. My Mom(Alice Rohrich Kramer) is one of the women that you interviewed.

Looks great! In my family (Russian German immigrants) we take the scraps of dough and fry them in butter to make them crunchy and serve them on top with creme and we use dill instead of onions. Funny how many different traditions there are

"Not so good for your health food". Tell that to the generations that came before me, who ate this kind of food regularly, never went to a doctor, but lived well into their 90's and some even beyond. Kase Knephla, or as we called them "Cheese Buttons" were always my favorite since I was only knee high to Grandma. I remember having to pull myself up on the edge of the kitchen table and stand on my tip toes to watch Great Grandma make them. Great Grandma, Grandma, and Mom prepared theirs slightly different than shown in this video, (no bread crumbs) but with the same yummy result. By the time I was a 10, I always ordered at least 20 for myself and I'd clean them all up in one meal. I could snort 8 of them up my nose. Ha! Mom would make at least a hundred, just to be safe, because after all, Kase Knephla is just as good the second day as they are the first.

I'm really glad to see that you have posted this on KZbin. My Mother and Grandmother were of Russian German ancestry and originally from Wing North Dakota. Mom was a great cook, but never taught us to cook these types of recipes and to be honest, I didn't think I would ever be able to have some of the things she used to make again. Thanks to people like you on KZbin, I can. No, it may not be exactly the same, but they look close enough to make me really happy. Thank you for sharing.

This is great! I have adapted our family recipe over time. It's always funny how many different ways there are! I haven't seen the cream used before. My husband's family ate them more as a fried dessert with sweet not savory added to the filling. I go heavy on the onion (but diced small so I don't know it's there) and garlic in mine. And I use a noodle roller press instead of a rolling pin anymore. I always want to freeze them but wasn't sure how to go about it - Going to try the individual freezing & see how it goes!

Wonderful rendition of a tragic poem. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much for posting this! This is my heritage as well and I am trying so hard to preserve it. My family LOVES cheese buttons and asks for them all time. I am currently in the quest to find and rediscover all the other "lost" recipes that we call by many different names...but are the same thing. And as you know...nobody wrote anything down! Thanks again for the video...I LOVE IT!

My son has been asking for Cheese buttons, and...I think you've inspired me! Hmmmmmm. Thanks Sue!

This lady's maiden name is Kautz. Before 1941, there used to be a German settlement called Kautz in what now is Volgograd region in southern Russia. Maybe a connection?

We would all be winners cause we would spell it like we pronounce it...

Thank you - I will be demonstrating at the convention of Germans from Russia in July... I'm so excited to be a part of this historic time ...

I love your comment about being present when you cook. SO true!! And the lack of measurements sounds just like my great grandmother!! I can still taste the cheese buttons even though it's been 20 years since she passed! I have been wanting to try and make them myself - so grateful for this wonderful tutorial! Thanks!

Those German names could be spelling bee words!

Thank you for your support.

Thank you for doing this!