Herring with sour cream and onion and fried potato

Pomeranian cuisine generally refers to dishes typical of the area that once formed the historic Province of Pomerania in northeast Germany and which included

Stettin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin language, Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Po ...

(now Szczecin) and Further Pomerania. It is characterised by ingredients produced by Pomeranian farms, such as swede (''Wruken'') and

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, by poultry rearing, which has produced the famous

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, by the wealth of fish in the

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, rivers and inland lakes of the

Pomeranian Lake District The Pomeranian Lakeland or Pomeranian Lake District ( pl, Pojezierze Pomorskie) is a lakeland in Farther Pomerania. It lies today in the east of the Polish Voivodeship of West Pomerania in northwest Poland. The lakeland is located in the extreme ...

, and the abundance of

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in Pomeranian forests. Pomeranian cuisine is hearty. Several foodstuffs have a particularly important role to play here in the region: potatoes, known as ''Tüften'', prepared in various ways and whose significance is evinced by the existence of a West Pomeranian Potato Museum (''Vorpommersches Kartoffelmuseum''), '' Grünkohl'' and sweet and sour dishes produced, for example, by baking fruit. Pomeranian farmers were self-sufficient: crops were stored until the following harvest, meat products were preserved in the smoke store of the home, or in the smokeries of larger villages such as Schlawin. Fruit, vegetables, lard and ''Gänseflomen'' were preserved by bottling in jars. Syrup was made from the sugar beet itself.

Specialities

Soups

* Gänse

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* Kliebensuppe * Pomeranian duck soup (''Pommersche Entensuppe'')

Fish

*'' Gebackener Spickaal'' (baked, smoked eel) *'' Braden Maischull'' *

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(''Pommerscher Kaviar'')

Pork and beef dishes

*'' Kloppschinken'' *'' Topfleberwurst'' * Mecklenburg roast ribs (''Mecklenburger Rippenbraten'')

Stews, vegetable and potato dishes

*'' Tüffel un Plum'' (potato soup with plums and bacon) *

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with bacon and onions in the Pomeranian style (''Buttermilchsuppe mit Speck und Zwiebeln auf pommersche Art'') *

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('' Fliederbeersuppe'') *

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(''Pommersche Hefeplinsen'') *

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(''Pommersche Klöße'') *

Pomeranian Tollatsch Tollatsch is a German dessert from the region of Pomerania. It is made of flour, sugar, a blend of Lebkuchen spices, bread crumbs, almonds, and raisins. Tollatsch also contains the uncommon ingredients pork blood and ''Griebenschmalz'' (schm ...

(''Pommersche Tollatschen'') *'' Schwemmklöße'' *

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(''Buttermilchkartoffel'') *''

Birnen, Bohnen und Speck Birnen, Bohnen und Speck ("pears, beans and bacon") is a North German dish which is especially popular in the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Hamburg. It also goes under the names of Bohnen, Birnen und Speck ...

Puddings

* Black bread pudding (''Schwarzbrotpudding'') * '' Götterspeise'' * ''

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'' * '' Mandelkringel'' * Sour cream cake (''Schmandpudding'')

Christmas dishes

*''

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'' *'' Kleine pommersche Kuchen'' *'' Pommersche Honigbutterküchlein'' *'' Pommersche Quarkbollerchen'' *White

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(''Weiße Pfeffernüsse'')

Drink

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* Sanddorn:

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spirits Spirit or spirits may refer to: Liquor and other volatile liquids * Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks * Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol * Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...

, Sanddorn

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Beers

* Barther Pils,

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, Ritter Alkun, Honigbier, Bockbier and

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s from the Barth brewery * Mellenthiner

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Dunkel Dunkel, or Dunkles, is a word used for several types of dark German lager. ''Dunkel'' is the German word meaning ''dark'', and dunkel beers typically range in color from amber to dark reddish brown. They are characterized by their smooth malty f ...

; seasonally also

Weizen Wheat beer is a top-fermenting, top-fermented beer which is brewing, brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German ''Weizenbier'' and Belgian ''witbier''; other types include L ...

Bock Bock is a strong beer in Germany, usually a dark lager. Several substyles exist, including: *Doppelbock (''Double Bock''), a stronger and maltier version *Eisbock (''Ice Bock''), a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer an ...

, Eisbock, Rauch, Schwarz and

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in the water castle at Mellenthin on the island of Usedom * Störtebeker

Pilsener Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (german: Pilsen), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewe ...

Schwarzbier , black beer, is a dark lager that originated in Germany. It has an opaque, black colour with hints of chocolate or coffee flavours, and is generally around 5% ABV. It is similar to stout in that it is made from roasted malt, which gives it its da ...

, Bernstein-Weizen, "1402", Roggen-Weizen, Strand-Räuber Mix beers and Stark-Bier; Stralsunder Pils,

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, Traditionsbock, etc. from the

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* Usedomer Inselbier Pils, Naturtrüb, Weizen, Schwarz and Insel

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in the

Usedom Usedom (german: Usedom , pl, Uznam ) is a Baltic Sea island in Pomerania, divided between Germany and Poland. It is the second largest Pomeranian island after Rügen, and the most populous island in the Baltic Sea. It is north of the Szczecin ...

brewery in

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(Usedomer Brauhaus at Ostseeresidenz)

Gourmet food

Several renowned restaurants in Pomerania have been awarded for excellence in the 21st century. For example, amongst the starred restaurants listed in the 2015

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are the Restaurant in the ''Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten'' in

Binz Binz is the largest seaside resort on the German island of Rügen. It is situated between the bay of Prorer Wiek and the ''Schmachter See'' (a lake) in the southeast of the island. To the north of Binz stretches the Schmale Heide (the "narrow hea ...

on the island of

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, which is run by chef André Münchs, ''Restaurant im Gutshaus Stolpe'' in

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, the ''Tom Wickboldt'' Restaurant in

on the island of

, as well as the gourmet restaurant of ''Scheel's'' in the Scheelehof in

, headed by Stralsund chefs Björn Kapelke and Henri Zipperling. The 2015 edition of the culinary guide,

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, awarded chef Peter Knobloch's ''Knoblochs Kräuterküche'' in Göhren on Rügen with 16 of 20 points, an achievement also earned by the Restaurant under Ralf Haug in Binz. Ranked at 15 points were chef René Bobzin, of the ''Zur alten Post'' in

Bansin Bansin forms the westernmost part of the seaside resort town of Heringsdorf in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, on the east coast of Usedom island, about five miles by rail northwest of Świnoujście. Bansin is one of the most popular resort ...

on Usedom, and Tom Wickboldt leading the restaurant of the same name in neighbouring

. Other restaurant guides like the ''Varta-Führer'', ''Bertelsmann Guide'', ''Der Feinschmecker'' and the ''Schlemmer Atlas'' rate gourmet food in West Pomerania as high quality.MV Gastronomie-Rangliste
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Literature

* Susanne Rohner: ''Das Beste aus der Pommerschen Küche – Kochen mit Tradition''. Dörfler, Eggolsheim, 2009, (96 pages). * Hans Otzen, Barbara Otzen: ''Danziger Hering und 130 weitere leckere Rezepte aus Pommern''. Edition Lempertz, 2012, (245 page). * Hannelore Doll-Hegedo: ''Spezialitäten aus Pommern, gewürzt mit Anekdoten''. Stürz Verlag, Leer, 2003, (82 pages). * H. von Geibler: ''Pommersches Kochbuch – Mit 631 selbst erprobten Rezepten''. Achte vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage, Prangesche Buchhandlung und Verlagsanstalt, Kolberg 1925; photomechanischer Nachdruck: 2. Auflage, Hinstorff, Rostock, 1996, (256 pages). * Dieter Kraatz: ''Rügen – Köstlichkeiten einer Inselküche''. Rügendruck, 2011, (135 pages). * Utta Voutta: ''Pommern bittet zu Tisch''. Herausgeber: Kreisfrauengruppe der Vereinigten Landsmannschaften e.V. (Bund der Vertriebenen), Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Eckenförde, 1986 (38 pages). * Marie Rosnack: ''Stettiner Koch-Buch: Anweisung auf eine feine und schmackhafte Art zu kochen, zu backen und einzumachen''. 4th ed., Nicolai'sche Buch- & Papierhandlung (C. F. Gutberlet), Stettin, 1838
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* Anita Weißflog: ''Die Küche des Landkreises Stolp''. Eigenverlag, Dresden, 2007.

References

External links

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