What are some unusual German foods?

Answer 1

Odd soups:

Beer soup is one of the more unusual offerings. It consists of flour, a liter of beer that has been allowed to go flat, sugar, milk, egg yolks, butter and cinnamon. This recipe is extremely easy to make, requires little cooking and is meant to be served with toasted French or other white bread.

Another different kind of soup is dark bread soup. Its main ingredient is, as the title suggests, dark bread, along with other spices. There is no meat in this or beer soup; however, you can add beef broth or bouillon to the dark bread soup to enrich its flavour.

Meat dishes:

Meat dishes in Germany do include sausage dishes; however, many of them use chicken, beef, turkey, pork or veal. One such dish is schnitzel. This dish is meant to be made with veal; in fact, you are basically preparing veal cutlets. However, chicken, turkey or pork also works well. The difference with this dish is that you can make any number of different sauces to put over the meat. These include cream sauces and tomato-based sauces. You can also simply and melt cheese over the cutlet, or you can spice it up with a fried egg, onions and capers placed on top of the prepared meat.

Desserts:

A more unusual dessert is called a bee sting cake. This cake is prepared using a fairly basic cake recipe, but the difference lies in the almond/egg filling that is spread between the layers and the almond topping that goes on top of the cake.

Other:

Some foods bear unique and sometimes whimsical names. An example is rabbit's ears. This is a mixture of eggs, cream, flour and rum all mixed together to form a soft dough. The dough is patted out into a round and cut into strips, much like dumplings. These strips are then deep-fried in fat or oil.