13 East German Dishes / Communist GDR Cuisine of East Germany

[@cooking-the-world]

What is your favorite GDR recipe?

[@skyhawk_4526]

Not sure, but I would like to try all of them!

[@johnmat7099]

Just got to catch up on your videos my family agrees the best gdr dish has got to be the jager schnitzel we love that dish and the eggs with mustard sauce!!

[@Bellasie1]

I'd love to try the Soljanka, the Saxon potato soup & Sauerbraten, the DDR Jägerschnitzel, the Quarkküchlein, the Eierschecke with poppy seeds, and both the chocolate desserts you presented.

[@kevincarlson668]

Goldbroiler-it's easy and so good I can't believe it's legal.All those DDR Kuche recipes/tutorials are yummy and easy.There was a hugely popular East German restaurant in San Francisco called Walzwerk.They even had Schweinshaxe (sp) and Kalter Hund.

[@mik2820]

Potato soup, i was born in the GDR

[@antjeschroeder]

They are called "Quarkkeulchen" not "Quarkküchlein"! They were so named because they have the appearance of small chicken legs. My favourite dish in the GDR was noodles with tomato sauce. I come from Saxony-Anhalt, where Jagdwurst was cut into cubes, fried and added to the tomato sauce. I know Jägerschnitzel with potatoes and vegetables. But in the end it doesn't matter, as long as there's Bautz'ner mustard with it, everything tastes good. 😂

[@cooking-the-world]

Hahahahaha love it

[@marlit8443]

My favorite Halloween Kugeln in my city Halle. There exits a Halloren store, my favorite. Poppyseed cake is so deliscious.

[@massimocallegari4898]

Interessante! Grazie! Noi in casa facciamo spesso saljanka, borsch, ed altri piatti russi..

[@helpershelper]

TY soooo much! Our Pastor is from East Germany. He is so dedicated as a Pastor for our People here at St John Lutheran in Vandalia , Ohio. His 3d Anniversary as our Pastor Is soon, and I wanted to create a dish He might recognize as an East German dish. We (congregation) want to honor His dedication to our Congregation, He has increased our membership and local vagrants are also comming to our services! We are celebrating His appointment to our Congregation.

[@jjaus]

Pastor, pastor blah bah. PS, some English tips. It's "coming", "His" applies to made up male gods. Why you would capitalise "Congregation" just floors me.

[@tokre8880]

just shut it @jjaus

[@jpjpvds]

Super episode!!! Gerade these dishes will get lost without documentations!! Thank You (and I'll be making Soljanka soon!!!!)

[@cooking-the-world]

Thanks for this lovely words and watching of course!

[@terryhsiao1745]

Can we do an episode on all the cheesecakes of germany? You are opening my eyes to german cheese cakes.

[@cooking-the-world]

Hmmm.. I would have to do some research first 😀

[@caehlers]

poppy seed cake - I adore it - my Babci used to make it many many years ago...

[@scottleidenberger4007]

Well I think they all looked good. The people of the GDR eat very well. I would love to try some of the dishes. In the mid 70's I was on border guard and things looked very different then. Glad things have changed.

[@cooking-the-world]

What did look different?

[@scottleidenberger4007]

@@cooking-the-world The small village we overlooked on the east side of the border looked very different to us. Every day from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM the village was blacked out and no one was allowed outside. During the day workers could be in the fields. With East German border guards nearby to prevent escape to the west. The ground and fence at the border was mined !

[@napoleonfeanor]

The villages near the border had special rules and people who didn't reside there needed a kind of passport and had to explain why they need to go there. Basic foods were readily available in East Germany. In that commie state, people didn't starve. Consume goods were quite rare and there was a big black market and bartering system. Real coffee was also not so much available many times.

[@InFltSvc]

Hello from Florida!! Well I found your red cabbage you recommended that in imported from Germany and it’s delicious. I also get my sweet mustard from Germany at Aldi’s. I still shop there and love that you can always get something different from across the pond. Love the videos , thanks for posting !

[@cooking-the-world]

I am glad you liked the red cabbage and that you get chance to buy German food at Aldi:) as always thanks for watching ☺️

[@fatbikearcticnomad2122]

I’ve dated an East German woman and she was an excellent cook and baker. Great video, love these recipes….

[@werewitch9466]

The savory dishes sound like my childhood! I didn't grow up in Germany but had a lot of family there and this video brought me way back :)

[@napoleonfeanor]

I'm from Lower Saxony and both Halorenkugeln and Bautzner are commonly available in different variation

[@wilfamos7314]

I learnt a lot of new things about DDR cuisine. Fantastic video, thank you so very much for posting. 🙂 🙂 Visited the old DDR a few times, so off now to check out your no doubt awesome video about Thuringia cuisine. Erfurt and Weimar are beautiful places, and Eisnach had the Wartburg factory (and a less interesting castle!). Now a museum, very much worth a visit next time you pass by.

[@antjeschroeder]

I hope when you talk about the less interesting castle, you don't mean THE Wartburg!!! First of all, it is not a castle but a fortress. And secondly, its history alone should make you freeze in awe!

[@summersun6536]

Eierschecke is also available with a layer of fruits, mostly apricots, berries, or rhubarb. It's amazing, too.

[@cooking-the-world]

Oh i would love to try that!

[@PDXLibertarian]

I'd like to take the Kalterhund and replace one of the biscuits with coconut/evaporated milk and one of it with Marzipan.

[@richardstonechild3269]

Gutentag ! So glad I came across your channel, your culinary experiences brought back good memories of our visit in 2018 to my adopted brother in the former East Germany. Reichenhain village near Riesa in Röderland . We traveled to many areas, sampled the best curry wurst in Berlin, pea and sausage soup in a neighboring village . My fav dish was the wild boar with Chanterelle mushrooms in gravy with the potato dumplings, soo good yum! When we go back we will expand on our tasty choices, so much options ! Danke schön from 🇨🇦!

[@cooking-the-world]

I am glad that you enjoyed the food so much! I also would like to try Curry Wurst in Berlin one day. BTW. There are other great wild game dishes in Germany I prepared a whole video about that, you can have look if you get a chance kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJfbc4mNhdGri9U

[@charliebritger4622]

The dishes you've shown in this video I actually prepared last week, Kalte Hund, Konigsberg Klopse etc ! I also received some Bautzen mustard that week.

[@cooking-the-world]

What a coincidence!🤩 hope you enjoyed the food!

[@charliebritger4622]

@@cooking-the-world I most certainly did, thank you !

[@marlit8443]

I loved potato soup, soljanka, mashed potatoes and schnitzel.

[@dersachse9944]

8:12 nice way to ooen them :) Actually you open tham on the top, so you have access to all of them, without pulling them out

[@cooking-the-world]

Thanks Max for the tip 😁

[@jimfrodsham7938]

Moin Marta. A lot of those dishes remind me of '50's Hamburg, especially the various soups. Did you come across that sausage and gravy pushed lengthwise into a roll?

[@cooking-the-world]

No, I read about it when we left 😕 oh well, another reason to come back 🤗

[@sabrinaclarus6290]

That is called Ketwurst and is really good.

[@jimfrodsham7938]

@@sabrinaclarus6290 right, thank you Sabrina, I would love to try that. Is it Bratwurst or Bockwurst?

[@jimfrodsham7938]

What I meant was, is it grilled or boiled/steamed Sabrina

[@cooking-the-world]

@@jimfrodsham7938 I think traditionally is Bockwurst and I couldn’t find it in Dresden. I was also looking for those bread rolls but also without success.

[@robertzander9723]

Oh, everything looked soo good and so delicious. I love pan fried potatoes, but it's not so easy to get them everywhere in the same quality. In Austria they have a weirdo version that I don't really like. Ragout Fin is one of my favourite dishes. The kalter Hund is good, but it's not the same quality as in the former GDR, the biscuit they used were better, than today.

[@cooking-the-world]

Didn’t they use Leibniz?

[@robertzander9723]

@@cooking-the-world I'm not sure if it was Wikana Hansa Keks or the Wikana Cottbuser Butterkeks, but not Leibniz, because the consistency was better and he was not to sweet, he compared better with the chocolate. Leibniz is from Hannover and would be an import from west Germany.

[@summersun6536]

@@robertzander9723 Vadossi and Wikana still offer "Kalter Hund". During GDR times I had never seen that dish ready-made. I only know it homemade with Hansa biscuits, the chocolate sauce was needed to be homemade, too, from cacao powder, sugar, and coconut fat (by Othüna). Some recipes included rum, too, but rum was pretty hard to get and pretty expensive, too, as far as I remember.

[@jameswilson4426]

Your husband is excellent at multi tasking; Eating while looking after your little one! I imagine your child will be very interested in Kalterhund soon, those look very delicious. Thank you as always for sharing your travels, very interesting for us in the USA. Your radiant personality brought the sun back while filming the introduction!

[@cooking-the-world]

Hahahaha! This window drives me mad when filming 😂 but what can one do:) yes, kids love sweets. But first he needs to learn how to eat. For the moment he just makes mess 🤣 and yes, the little one always cries when the food arrives to the table. We stopped eating with fork and knife for this reason. But that’s the beauty I guess

[@robotnaoborot]

Soviet Comrade here. I highly approve those dishes. They are healthy and good for working people, perfect for serving in canteens

[@Tobias_Schoenwald]

Most of these Things are Dishes we still eat today. I didnt even know that some of these where East German exclusives.

[@angelamariaurbano6603]

Hello Martha!! Interesting tour as always!! I would like to be everywhere and taste everything!!!! Bye!! :-D

[@cooking-the-world]

Thanks Angela 🤩

[@skip123davis]

oh, i always love me some sauerbraten! that looked amazing. i'm curious: eier mit senfsoße looks really interesting. i think i'd like to try that. should be pretty easy. do you have a link to a recipe for the sauce? the most amazing thing about german food is the mustard! i absolutely love it!! when i go to a german deli, the first thing i head for is the mustard section ❤. it goes with so many things, especially since i make my own kraut - only 3 ingredients: cabbage, salt, and german sourcery❣

[@GrassrootsLibertyBillFoster]

Walwerk in San Francisco is amazing for anyone travelling there !

[@justinfowler5761]

The food looks so good

[@berndrebhahn4640]

Grandgrandpa from the G.D.R. now in the U.S.(20 Years) I love everything. Special all Dumplings. Potato an Breaddumplings. Bloodsaussage,warm,sautet Onion and Mash potatoes. On the side. Sellerie Roots Sallat.

[@cooking-the-world]

🤩

[@BethVonstaats]

Most of these dishes look very tasty indeed!

[@timbucktu5141]

@cooking-the-world You choose a nice selection of dishes, some are typical GDR style, but some are much older and your selection is heavy on the Saxon side. Did you know Saxon Sour Roast is nowadays made of beef, while in the old times it was made of dear or in poor families of horse meat. Meißen was the seat of the bakers guilt in the Holy Roman Empire. In Bautzen, the capital of Upper Lusatia, you find a restaurant of the Lusatian Sorbs with their specific cuisine. Additional to your fine list of dishes from the East Germanies I would suggest: Marinated herring with fresh potatoes. White asparagus with sauce hollandaise and fresh potatoes. Cottage cheese and boiled potatoes Heaven and earth lusatian style: apples from the air and apples from the earth (caramelised sliced apples and onions with mash and brown butter, sometimes served with roasted or grilled liver.) Plaice with fresh potatoes Original Dresden Christmas Stollen Mash with Thuringian Bratwurst, Sauerkraut and Hunter Sauce. Spirelli eggpasta with cubed Baloney, ketchup sauce and butter cheese. (GDR Nudeln)

[@cooking-the-world]

🤩🤩🤩

[@scottwelsh6847]

Girl I love your shit!amazing, straight forward and to the point!!good job!💥

[@cooking-the-world]

Thanks!☺️

[@MissTease77]

What a wonderful cuisine , and they have vegetables you know ? Like lemon on the side … so I’m going Germany now I guess , for their vegetables …

[@Viking88Power]

Looks delish

[@byronhowe6753]

awsum video ,all German looks so good

[@Bellasie1]

Very interesting! It's great that they remained popular.

[@cooking-the-world]

Yes! Germany is still very regional. I hope that it will stay that way!

[@Bellasie1]

@@cooking-the-world So do I. It's important to keep the local heritage alive.

[@pancratius602]

After spending time in Rheinland-Pfalz and also NRW (West Germany), I went to a restaurant at or close to the DDR Museum in Berlin. I ordered a „Jägerschnitzel“ and I was sorely disappointed 😂 I was expecting breaded pork or veal with a nice helping of mushroom gravy...

[@cooking-the-world]

Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@andrejmucic5003]

Want!

[@larryzhu8061]

looks delicious

[@Broadercasting]

No Grilletta? Ha! Seriously, I liked the look of all the food, apart from the Sülze! I'd give all a try.

[@cooking-the-world]

Grilleta was hard to find. Thanks:)

[@leedoss6905]

it doesn't take long for a society to adapt their food to what they have on hand. I personally was raised up on wild game farm raised animals and best of all liver and onions. Hardly anyone likes liver and onions anymore. I make a type of schnitzel with liver.

[@cooking-the-world]

Oooh that’s interesting. There are few liver dishes here in Germany too. My favorite is Leber Berliner Art and Leberle!

[@wincav]

When i first saw the “East German cooking” I thought of bread & water.

[@cooking-the-world]

Oh no, their food is way more than that!

[@wincav]

@@cooking-the-world I had a flash back to communist East Germany. I was trying to make a small joke. Sorry, the joke was a flop.

[@sabrinaclarus6290]

That is very funny to me ..., so many people still like to make fun of our east german life and our food, mostly the ones that were not there and have no clue ....! We loved our meat rich food , we had enough of such , just not everything at all times! We had to make due with what was available which makes people inventive..., thats pretty much east german food!

[@wincav]

@@sabrinaclarus6290 My comment was a “jab” at a communist dictatorship NOT the German people. Food is a big part of a culture no matter what the circumstances.

[@sabrinaclarus6290]

@@wincav Thanks, I appreciate that!!

[@korinaviado3333]

Ooookay but how were you able to pour the sauce without spilling? 😂😂 Anyway, Kalter Hund looks good 😊

[@cooking-the-world]

Hahahaha! My husband read this comment to me and said “somebody seems to know you well, you always spill stuff around” 😂😂😂

[@marlit8443]

I make that sometimes it’s deliscious but fattening.

[@dirceuluizmanfroramos9988]

Quite interesting.

[@cooking-the-world]

🤭☺️

[@ThierryPeek]

you sound swevsnak are you norwegian? i love finland

[@angeloofpalermo2612]

Cheese, chicken and chips, the three C's to a good life.

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

Right off hand I noticed you missed the "day day ray" wurstchen. A form of Frankfurter made without a casing...or with a plastic casing that is taken off after the first steaming in the factory. But then, it might be more of a Berliner thing. (Or did you talk about it in a different video? 🤔Someone did.) Also funny about it...in the DDR it was sold as a Frankfurter, but they can't anymore, and now it's sometimes sold as a hotdog. Hehe, die Amis are getting back some of their own medicine.

[@cooking-the-world]

Oh now I need to find this fake Frankfurter. Do you know what is it call ed?

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

It's sold only in the former GDR so far as I know. It's called either simply a Würstchen, or a Hot Dog. In the former east Berlin areas you'll find them in Ibisses that specialize in such. Just, imagine a Frankfurter without any skin and no knack. That's what you'll get. The whole attraction is that's it's about as retro-DDR as you can get. Kind of like their Jägerschnitzel.

[@terryhsiao1745]

Dresden royal museum :))

[@SpinoAdri2001]

And the Grilletta is not shown, sad

[@cooking-the-world]

It was nowhere to be found.

[@SpinoAdri2001]

@@cooking-the-world I saw a video of a guys who still makes Grilleta

[@timc2346]

All looks delicious was going to ask if there were Russian influences in the North.

[@cooking-the-world]

Oh for sure. Soljanka is very Russian. Other than this they really didn’t have many ingredients therefore the cuisine is very special.

[@timbucktu5141]

@@cooking-the-world GDR Soljanka is different from the Russian version. It was inspired from the Russian dish, but it is different.

[@professorx1935]

Lady on the cookies package kinda looks like Angela Merkel

[@markdost1476]

SEITENBACHER BERGSTEIGER MÜSSLI

[@shakiMiki]

German cooking is very depressing. Fascinating so.

[@sabrinaclarus6290]

WHY?

[@jdane2277]

Do you know it? I lived there. It was very impressive and as an American, our cusine is so depressing. We have nothing like the great sausages and fish dishes especially. I went back a few years ago and it was still amazing.

[@EughhBrothereughh]

Nothing tastes better than communism lmao 🤣

[@just_one_opinion]

YA, your mutti DDR merkelowitz brought in all the curry and spice wrom ze mizzle east YA?

[@cooking-the-world]

From Asia :)