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Himmel und Erde

Himmel und Erde/HIM-mel oont AIR-deh/
Himmel und Erde
About this dish

Mashed potato and applesauce served with fried blood sausage, a traditional Rhineland dish.

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Ingredients
🥔1kg potatoes, boiled and mashed
🍎4 apples, peeled and stewed
🌭4 blutwurst (blood sausage)
🧅1 onion, fried
Method
Serves 4
1
Boil and mash the potatoes with a little milk and butter.
2
Stew the peeled apples with a touch of sugar until soft.
3
Fold the applesauce into the mashed potato, or serve side by side.
4
Fry the blood sausage slices until crisp.
5
Serve the sausage over the potato-apple mixture, topped with fried onion.
✓ What Makes it Authentic

Himmel und Erde, meaning 'heaven and earth,' refers to apples (from the sky) and potatoes (from the earth).

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