''Knipp'' (in the Hanover area: ''Calenberger Pfannenschlag'') is a type of

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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 Pinkel is a smoked Kaszanka (), which is a type of sausage. It is eaten mainly in northwest Germany, especially the region around Oldenburg, Bremen and Osnabrück as well as in East Frisia and Friesland. Etymology The word ''pinkel'' is Ea ...

'' which comes from the Bremen
Bremen kulinarisch and Lower Saxon cuisine, Lower Saxony regions of

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. ''Knipp'' is made from oat groats,

pork Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the domestic pig (''Sus domesticus''). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE. Pork is eaten both freshly cooked and preserved; ...

head,

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pork rind Pork rind is the culinary term for the skin of a pig. It can be used in many different ways. It can be rendered, fried in fat, baked, or roasted to produce a kind of pork cracklings (US) or scratchings (UK); these are served in small piece ...

,
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broth Broth, also known as bouillon (), is a savory liquid made of water in which meat, fish or vegetables have been simmered for a short period of time. It can be eaten alone, but it is most commonly used to prepare other dishes, such as soups, ...

and seasoned with

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, allspice and

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. ''Knipp'' is usually sold in roughly long and thick sausages as a ''Stange'' ("stick") or ''Rolle'' ("roll"). The smoked sausage is sold and consumed having been roasted, either just with bread, or with

roast Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least from an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting can enhance the flavor through caramelizatio ...

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es and

gherkin A pickled cucumber (commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or ...

s, sweet and sour pumpkin,

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(''Apfelmus'') and beetroot or even cold or hot on

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. 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 as ''Knipp un Büddelwust''. In the Lüneburg Heath, ''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 pop ...

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

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, ''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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