Thanks to Herta Heuwer a Berlin housewife who in 1949 traded spirits with British soldiers for curry powder, tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce and came up with the German much loved recipe for Currywurst.
Readers here will remember my recent blog post featuring German food we ate and tried in Tenerife and the Currywurst in particular.
So I got wifey to go to our local German garden centre and supermarket and beer providers and purchase some Bratwurst sausages. The ones in the fridges not the jars!
Then I looked up Currywurst on the Tinternet and Tweb and we (she) made our very homemade Currywurst:
It tasted like the Currywurst we ate in Tenerife at the German cafe bar. It was very filling and I cut up a sausage for the 🐕. I scraped the sauce off them so we are not left dog curry in the morning 🙂.
Is this going to be a regular dish on the menu chez northsider?
ReplyDeleteI love Austrian and German food JayCee. I also love German rock bands and musicians like The Scorpions and Michael Schenker and Doro Pesch and Uli Jon Roth. The beers pretty good too. I don't suppose you have Lidl or Aldi on the IOM? Do you have Sainsburys? I loved that supermarket when I lived in Blighty.
ReplyDeleteNo Lidl or Aldi here. Sainsburys used to have a franchise outlet here in the locally owned Shoprite stores but they have just been bought out by Tesco so we are forced to buy their cr@p now, or use the Co-Op.
DeleteWe rarely see English beer like Newcastle Brown Ale in Ireland. You can get French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, German and Czech beer. But none or very few English beers. Sometimes we go to an off licence in Tralee for English beers that I love. I'm surprised Lidl and Aldi aren't over there. We have shopped in them in the Algarve and up a very big hill in Puerto Del LA Cruz recently in Tenerife.
DeleteI am surprised that you let your wife out alone as wives often take leering side glances at other men. As for Currywurst, the idea of curried sausages does not thrill me. I will stick to my usual lamb balti and chicken dopiaza thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI only go shopping if I can just look at the middle aisle in Lidl and Aldi. My wife seems to need to go down every aisle. No I am not a lover of food shopping YP. Now beer shopping in England, that's just the ticket. Currywurst is very different. The Germans have curry and sausage whilst the English have curry and chips or chips with most things.
ReplyDeleteI do all of our food shopping as I am a "new man" whereas you seem to be stuck back in the 1930's Dave! Did they have rock music then?
DeleteIf you watch the beginning of The Wizard Of Oz (1939) YP. You will see that Kansas (not the Prog band) was in black and white. In his book TALL Tales and wee stories. Billy Connolly claims that music was tripe until the 1950s when Elvis came along and Rock'n'roll was invented and Billy grew his hair and started playing his guitar and singing songs. It might be an Irish thing but women generally do food shopping.
DeletePerhaps I will have to start dressing like an Irishwoman when I go to Lidl. I will need a black shawl over my head and wrinkly stockings down below and I'll say, "Will ye look at the feckin' proices Maeve!" as I fumble with my purse.
DeleteMaybe you should spend sometime over here to master the art of swearing?
DeleteWould I need to employ a priest? Not sure I'd be safe with one.
DeleteNo one can swear like the Irish. There should be a world swearing championships. I think Ireland would get gold and Australia second.
DeleteHave never encountered currywurst. My Mum used to bake ordinary pork sausages in a sort of curry sauce - not my favorite.
ReplyDeleteApparently it's a very popular meal in Germany Tigger's Mum. There's lots of Currywurst recipes on You Tube. It's definitely a different way of cooking sausages. I liked it.
ReplyDeleteI have a packet of German bratwurst in the fridge right now. They're the closest we can get to an English sausage here . I won't be putting them in curry sauce. I'll be savouring a decent sausage taste
ReplyDeleteYou would be surprised if you tried them with a curry sauce Linda.
ReplyDelete"dog Curry" doesn't sound fun! I should say you made the right choice to scrape the sauce off!
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteVERY wise to scrape off the sauce when feeding the dog!
ReplyDeleteHmm.
ReplyDeleteMade by Hela, Martha Laue's Original spice ketchup, I get mild, can be purchased online and taste just like the curry ketchup, which is poured over all the German street food we ate in Belin.
ReplyDeleteThanks Poppypatchwork.
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