Old bread rolls, egg, milk, parsley – these are the basic ingredients for dumplings, also known as “Knödel”. Also popular in Austria, South Tyrol, and the Czech Republic – in southern Germany they can be either a main course or a side dish, savory or sweet. In Deggendorf, in Lower Bavaria, they are even more than that: legend has it that the dumplings saved the town from an enemy siege.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:48 How bread dumplings are made
03:57 How dumplings saved Deggendorf
04:46 Varieties of dumplings

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Report: Anja Koch
Camera: Madmo C. Springer
Edit: Kirsten Jungclaus
Supervising Editor: Ruben Kalus
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20 Comments

  1. 1 comment sez never had dumplings made from old bread? … that's exactly what Semmelknödel is; made from day old (or older) rolls. And, in Honolulu, a German Frau makes them from old pretzels! YUM!

  2. Nice tale, but we’re so arrogant that we have hard time acknowledging that the Arabs didn’t only bring us dumplings( in a gnocchi style),they brought us pasta, pizza, pesto, almonds, marzipan, artichoke, spinach, orange, lemon, coffee, sorbet sugar, rice ( all Arabic words by the way even in Norwegian) .. it would be interesting to see the food expo in Genoa ‘s main museum. Venice and Genoa took most of their knowledge from their capitals, since they were the centers of science, agriculture and art.. their Renaissance was 500 years ahead of Florence.
    They taught us how to disinfect and sterilize wounds .. We got it all through their empire in the Iberian Peninsula, Southern Italy and Malta, not to mention the Crusades which allowed us to discover a sophisticated advanced civilization hundreds of years ahead of us.
    Traveling changed the way I see the world, so different from our ignorant Western ways!

  3. Aussie here. Mate! They look so YUM. I suppose you can add anything you like into them. As it always is, it so much better sitting and waiting to be fed .

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