Kottenbutter

As Kotte Kotte Botter butter or a (double) brown bread or brown bread slice with butter, sliced ​​smoked sausage, possibly from horse meat ( the so-called Kotte sausage), sliced ​​onions and mustard is referred to in the Bergische Land.

Sometimes there is also a variant with Panhas and onions, which, however, has to do with the original form little.

This local rustic specialty had its origin in the food habits of the grinder in the grinding cotta to the watercourses of the Wupper in space Remscheid, Wuppertal and Solingen. This had to grind as an independent subcontractor for larger companies in the city centers under time pressure, the steel goods blanks. Despite the strenuous and hazardous work at the large grinding stone ( black lung disease and injury from the belt ), a two -man operation could not afford a proper meal, so that distant relatives of the sandwich was named after them.