''Knipp'' (in the Hanover area: ''Calenberger Pfannenschlag'') is a type of sausage made by mixing meat with grains (''

Grützwurst Kaszanka is a traditional blood sausage in the east and central European cuisine. It is made of a mixture of pig's blood, pork offal (commonly liver), and buckwheat or barley (kasza) stuffed in a pig intestine. It is usually flavored with onion, ...

'') related to '' Pinkel'' which comes from the

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

Bremen kulinarisch and Lower Saxon cuisine, Lower Saxony regions of Germany. ''Knipp'' is made from oat groats, pork head, pork belly, pork rind,
Charlotte Homfeld: Über das Hausschlachten. liver (food), liver and broth and seasoned with salt,

allspice Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry (botany), berry of ''Pimenta dioica'', a Canopy (forest), midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, ...

and

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

. ''Knipp'' is usually sold in roughly long and thick sausages as a ''Stange'' ("stick") or ''Rolle'' ("roll"). The

smoked Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Meat, fish, and ''lapsang souchong'' tea are often smoked. In Europe, alder is the tradi ...

sausage is sold and consumed having been roasted, either just with bread, or with roast or

boiled potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unite ...

es and gherkins, sweet and sour pumpkin, apple sauce (''Apfelmus'') and

beetroot The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet ...

or even cold or hot on

wholemeal bread Whole wheat bread or wholemeal bread is a type of bread made using flour that is partly or entirely milled from whole or almost-whole wheat grains, see whole-wheat flour and whole grain. It is one kind of brown bread. Synonyms or near-synonym ...

. Sometimes crispy, fried slices of ''

Beutelwurst A ''Beutelwurst'' is a German blood sausage (''Rotwurst'' or ''Blutwurst''), which contains more pieces of fat and flour than a normal ''Thüringer Rotwurst''. The name ''Beutelwurst'' comes from the fact that this does not come in a casing of ...

'' are served with ''Knipp'' – this dish is known in

Low Saxon Low Saxon, also known as West Low German ( nds, Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies; nl, Nedersaksisch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of th ...

as ''Knipp un Büddelwust''. In the

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (german: Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen a ...

, ''Knipp'' is made with ''

Heidschnucke The Heidschnucke is a group of three types of moorland sheep from northern Germany. Like a number of other types from Scandinavia and Great Britain, they are Northern European short-tailed sheep. The three breeds of Heidschnucke (in order of popu ...

'' meat and is known as ''Heidjer Knipp''. In

Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to: Places *Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany **Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony *Olde ...

, ''Knipp'' is called ''Hackgrütze''. For a long time, ''Knipp'' was considered to be a ' poor man's food', as it is made from offal and from butcher's scraps.

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