Tollatsch

Tollatsch is a lump like a blood sausage, which was prepared in Pomerania and West Pomerania traditionally at Slaughter festivals. It is " made ​​of flour (or grits ) and blood ( pork or goose blood) produced, approximately fist-sized dumplings, which are often filled with raisins. " In a recipe from a home calendar for the Anklam county from 1928 are as essential ingredients pig's blood, pork broth, flour, bread, rind, eggs, raisins and syrup called and several spices. All the ingredients are added to the broth to a mass arises from the form to let dumplings, which are quite cooked in the sausage broth. The finished Tollatsch is sliced ​​.

In Pomerania and on Rügen there was also a New Year pastries, which was designated Tollatschen, but that has except the name nothing to do with the dumplings. "They are oblong, filled with fruit and jam cake, but these are not as huge as in the East Pomeranian Kollatschen, but only about 15 to 20 cm long. "

Found their way into the literature by Hans Fallada Tollatsch stories entitled The Miracle of Tollatsch.