And now for some
spätzle! I made this to serve with German Meatballs. The recipe was in
The Joy of Cooking, which is just about the best cookbook that any homemaker could have for learning to cook new things. Here's what G. and I did during L.'s nap one morning last week:
We made the dough:
1 1/2 c. flour
1/2 tspn baking powder
3/4 tspn salt
pinch of nutmeg
mixed with:
2 large eggs
and 1/2 c. water or milk
Beaten until batter was "fairly elastic."
G. loved to try to mix it. Here is some of the dough:
Then I pressed it through a steamer into boil chicken broth. They make
presses or
lids and scrapers for this sort of thing, but I don't have one. The steamer worked well:
Then cooked it until it floated:
Finally, used a ladle sized
slotted spoon to put it in a bowl:
Don't forget; the
toddler must try the finished result while the rest of the cooking it happening since it took about 6 batches to cook all the dough:
