Grumpy German Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the sugar and butter in a bowl. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and eggs and beat well.
• Spoon the batter into a springform pan of 8, 9 or 10 inches. Place the plum halves skin side up on top of the batter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and lemon juice, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.
• Bake 1 hour, approximately. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve plain or with whipped cream. (To serve a torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat it briefly at 300 degrees.)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease or spray baking dish that will hold your loaf with room around the edges for veggies.
• In large bowl, gently mix Ground Meat and Breadcrumbs until combined.
• Peel and dice on 1 Onion , heat 1 Tbsp of Butter in hot skillet, add diced Onion and Parsley , sauté until Onion is golden brown.
• Beat Eggs in large shallow container; add Salt, Pepper, Rosemary and Nutmeg to Egg and mix. Pour Onion/Parsley mixture and Egg mixture over Ground Meat, knead together until uniformly mixed.
• Mold meat mixture into loaf; roll in Flour until coated on all sides.
• Lay Bacon slices in the middle of small casserole dish, set floured Loaf on top of Bacon.
• Peel and slice Carrot and second Onion, pour Broth into casserole dish; scatter sliced Carrot and Onion around Meatloaf.
• Heat 4 Tbsp Butter in warm skillet.
• Pour hot Butter over meatloaf and place dish in preheated oven.
• Bake 1 hour (or until cooked through (at least 160 degrees - no pink should be left), basting often With 5-10 minutes cook time remaining, spread Sour Cream over Meatloaf.
• Remove dish from oven, move meatloaf to serving dish.
• Stir Flour or Cornstarch into the juice remaining in pan to make sauce, return to oven to thicken or transfer mixture to a pot which can go on your stove top.
• Slice and serve while hot.

Steps:

• Combine sauerkraut and apple pie filling in crock pot. Place roast in crock pot and ladle sauerkraut over roast. Sprinkle with caraway seed. Cook on high for 6 hours. Reduce heat to low and continue to cook for 2-3 hours.