297715 Tue Jul 06 13:07:07 -0700 2004 16 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1643867 I'm hosting brunch in my unairconditioned apartment in a couple of weeks. I thought it would be nice to try to replicate one of those glorious breakfast buffets served in German hotels. However, it's been a few years since I visited Germany and I'm afraid that the memory is fading. I'm listing what I do remember below. Can anyone add or elaborate? (I'm happy to bake or cook, as long as it can be done the night before.) pumpernickle sliced ham and cheese sliced tomatoes and cucumbers a white sauce for the pumpernickle/ham/tomato sandwich - what's in it? quark, fruit salad and museli smoked fish Tue Jul 06 13:07:07 -0700 2004 0 Cathleen 1 1643868 Yogurt. In addition to ham, you need a few other cold-cuts, and liverwurst. Don't recall a white sauce. (soft) pretzels, and kaiser rolls. Pepperidge Farm Dark German Wheat bread is very similar to a bread I always see in German buffets. Tue Jul 06 13:18:24 -0700 2004 1643867 0 Liz K 2 1643876 I don't know about weisswurst as the meats should be thin-sliced so they can be eaten open-faced on a slice of bread. At a hotel in Innsbruck our breakfast buffet included thin-sliced roast beef but various cold cuts, hams, and cheeses are more usual. Have a choice of breads (white, wheat, raisin) and a choice of jams. Little pots of yogurt are generally included and sometimes cereal with a pitcher of cold milk. Pitchers of juice seem more common than fruit. Boiled eggs may appear in their shells, very much so in Holland. I have seen breakfast pastries more in the Scandinavian countries but would definitely include small Danishes or squares of good coffee cake. Anyplace French-speaking will have croissants. The Austrian breakfast I referred to above gave us apple strudel! (PS If you want to do the strudel, find a Trader Joe's near you as they sell excellent frozen apple strudel imported from Germany @ $2.29 for the entire strudel. Just bake it, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and slice.) Tue Jul 06 14:34:01 -0700 2004 1643868 0 N Tocus 3 1643925 In Germany, sweet pastry, such as strudel or coffee cake is not traditionally served at breakfast time, but rather "mit Kaffee" (with coffee) during the mid-afternoon "coffee and cake" ritual. As noted by a previous poster, sliced cucumber and tomato are also not typically part of breakfast, but might be served w/bread, ham, liverwurst, pickles and beer, as part of the cold evening supper. Weisswurst is often served, boiled, w/pretzels and beer, in a restaurant or "Wirtschaft," at around 11am on - I seem to remember - Sundays, but not as part of a typical breakfast buffet. Yogurt, spreadable honey, broetchen (rolls), dense rye bread, soft boiled eggs, muesli, sliced ham and liverwurst, are all common. Do not forget the Nutella! Guten Appetit! Tue Jul 06 22:06:45 -0700 2004 1643876 0 LisaM 1 1643869 Soft boiled eggs Brötchen Honey Tue Jul 06 13:19:57 -0700 2004 1643867 0 Melanie Wong 1 1643871 What about weisswurst? Tue Jul 06 13:36:44 -0700 2004 1643867 0 Karl S. 2 1643928 That's usually not on a hotel buffet - sold in stands & eaten with Süßsenf & Bier - basically in Bavaria, especially München. My favorite part of a German breakfast is fresh Semmeln (rolls usu/ with poppy or sesame seed top), cold butter & great German preserves or honey. Hero jam is always good & available in the States. Yumm!!! 2nd fav is Nutella on really good fresh German dark brown bread - have never found anything exactly like that here. Schade! Tue Jul 06 22:41:37 -0700 2004 1643871 0 torta basilica 1 1643881 Pickled herring, salami, unsalted butter, a couple of GOOD jams/jellies, and definitely some type of liverwurst. I don't recall tomatoes and cucumbers as being part of the buffet. Tue Jul 06 14:50:49 -0700 2004 1643867 0 Scagnetti 2 1643929 What part of Germany do you get pickled herring for breakfast? I guessing the north as I lived in Bavaria & travelled all over & don't recall seeing this. Which is lucky for me, as I can't stand the stuff & wouldh've gagged & missed all the other wonderful stuff! Tue Jul 06 22:43:46 -0700 2004 1643881 0 torta basilica 3 1643931 In the three years I lived there, I saw all kinds of delicious pickled herring - rollmops, schmaltzed, fresh pickled - at breakfast buffets in every city from Hamburg to Dusseldorf to Freiberg. There was always lots of other fish, as well - the ersatzlachs (trout), eel, and of course, salmon - smoked, as well as cold poached. yummm... How could you not have stopped at the little trailers selling the herringsbrot - brotchen sandwiches of pickled herring? Tue Jul 06 22:59:56 -0700 2004 1643929 0 applehome 4 1643952 Yes yes. I saw pickled herring all over Franken this past June. And I ate pickled herring all over Franken. Wed Jul 07 10:16:45 -0700 2004 1643931 0 Sir Gawain 5 1644004 Well, I did live in Munich & travelled mainly in Bavaria, but stayed in Romantik & Schloß hotels & with friends in the rest of Germany, but don't remember ever seeing it. Perhaps I have a mental block ;-> Wed Jul 07 21:10:29 -0700 2004 1643952 0 torta basilica 2 1643956 The breakfast tomato sandwiches were the highlights of my days - with sliced white cheese, on pumpernickle with the white sauce. I made a note about the sauce, which had a mayo or sour cream consistency and may have contained hardboiled egg or pickle. I actually managed to replicate it once home, but I lost the recipe! I'm heartbroken that nobody has heard of it. (Though otherwise this is a great thread.) Wed Jul 07 11:22:28 -0700 2004 1643881 0 Cathleen 1 1643883 FOUR kinds of sugar! White cubes or granulated, brown cubes, brown large crystal, white large crystal. The cubes (must be small) are easy to find (try A la Perruche brand). The crystal is sold by www.speaiclteas.com. Also, VERY good tea, but sadly you won't find the large-capacity teabags with varietal teas available in Germany... Now what about the pastry??? Surely there must be a kuchen or another fruit-topped pastry in there... Image: http://www.specialteas.com/mystore/images/sugar.jpg Tue Jul 06 14:57:11 -0700 2004 1643867 0 Sir Gawain 1 1643930 Did anyone mention muesli? Saw that alot & loved to mix it up w/ plain yougurt & honey. Tue Jul 06 22:45:00 -0700 2004 1643867 0 torta basilica 1 1643936 Pflaumenmuss (plum butter) goes really well with the quark on bread. You can buy it at any German or Eastern European grocery store if you are in a large city. Tue Jul 06 23:29:16 -0700 2004 1643867 0 shoo-bee-doo 2 1643943 Mmmmm. Plum butter. In America, I used to buy cases of plum jam for my boyfriend. I bet plum jam is even better, richer. I want some. Also, maybe just found in America(?), but worth the non-traditional inclusion in your buffet, is the pumpkin butter sold at Trader Joe's markets in many states. Pumpkin butter on dark brown bread is a mouthful of flavors. And, some breads are so flavorful, they don't need a spread with each bite. There is one bread that is a dark pumpernickel with orange and anise in it. I think it's a form of Swedish limpa bread. I like it tons. Wed Jul 07 08:04:49 -0700 2004 1643936 0 kc girl