Weckewerk is a

sausage A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders. ...

, native to Northern

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. It is made from cooked brawn and minced meat, veal or sausage, and broth of pork, sometimes from cooked meat, blood and

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. The sausage is stretched with

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, explaining the name: "Weck" or "Wegge" is the traditional term for roll in Northern Hesse. It is seasoned with onions, salt, pepper, marjoram, regionally also with caraway, allspice and garlic. The ingredients are ground and mixed. To be consumed within a short time, the mixture is packaged in pig intestines. If longer storage is desired, it is preserved in jars or filled in artificial casings. Weckewerk, also called Weckewurst, can be eaten cold or fried in a pan. The former mayor of

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

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, liked Weckewerk almost burnt, therefore this form of preparation is called ''Bürgermeisterart'' ("in the fashion of the mayor"). Common side dishes are boiled potatoes, leeks, black pudding, pickled cucumber, and beetroot or a green salad.

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Hessian cuisine German sausages North Hesse {{Germany-cuisine-stub