Mecklenburg-Vorpommern cuisine

The Mecklenburg cuisine is generally considered a more down to earth and hearty. In it, on the one hand reflect the long-standing poverty, the lands of Mecklenburg, as well as the long Baltic Sea coastline and the abundance of inland waters. In addition, thanks to the vast forests an abundance of game dishes. A particularly important role to play here in the region also called taters potatoes ( also bears witness to the existence of a potato museum in the adjacent Western Pomerania) in various preparation methods, kale and the sweet-sour flavor, produced for example by baking fruit. All these points have the kitchen in Mecklenburg than typical northeastern German. Although Mecklenburg Western Pomerania and had a long, independent historical development, the similarity of the conditions of life and landscapes in both parts of the country today has led to the fact that similar dietary habits greatly.

Karl Julius Weber reported in the 18th century about the eating habits of the Mecklenburg: "The people lived mostly on potatoes, of withered fruit, white cabbage, turnips and horse beans ".

Specialties

Drinks

• Grog
• Mecklenburg Regional Wine of the Stargarder country
• Sea buckthorn: Sea buckthorn wine, sea buckthorn liqueur, sea buckthorn juice

Beers

• Darguner lager, dark beer, bull beer, Mecklenburg Pilsener, Castle amongst others Hefeweizen from the brewery Darguner
• Inter alia, Rostock pilsner, bock beer, dark beer from the Hanseatic Rostock Brewery
• Lübzer Pils, Bock, export, dark beer, primal force, Nordbräu Pilsner and Duckstein from the Mecklenburg Brewery Lübz

See also: List of active breweries in Germany # Mecklenburg -Vorpommern

Fish

• Fried Smoked Eel ( Baked smoked eel )
• Fried plaice ( Braden Maischull )
• Pomeranian caviar

Pork and beef

• Klopp ham
• Pot sausage
• Mecklenburg rib roast

Stews, vegetables and potato dishes

• Tüffel un Plum (potato soup with prunes and bacon)
• Buttermilk soup with bacon and onions on Pomeranian type
• Elderberry soup
• Pomeranian Hefeplinsen
• Pomeranian dumplings
• Pomeranian Tollatschen
• Schwemmklöße
• Buttermilk potatoes
• Pears, beans and bacon

Desserts

• Sea buckthorn cake
• Black bread pudding
• Red fruit jelly
• Almond kringle
• Sour cream pudding
• French toast
• Mecklenburg Jello
• Schwedeneisbecher

Christmas food

• Honey cake on the plate
• Small Pomeranian cake
• Pomeranian Honigbutterküchlein
• Pomeranian Quarkbollerchen
• White pepper nuts