Weckewerk

Awaken plant is a North Hessian sausage specialty. It is made from cooked brawn and minced meat or sausage and broth of pork, sometimes come to cooked meat, blood and offal. Is stretched the sausage with stale buns that give the Awakening work to its name: " Awakening " or " Wegge " is the traditional term for bread in northern Hesse. The soup is seasoned with onions, salt, pepper, marjoram, regionally with cumin, allspice and garlic. The ingredients are rotated through the mincer and blended. To be consumed quickly Wecke work comes in this form or filled into pig intestines in the kitchen. For longer storage it is preserved in jars or cooked in large-caliber artificial gut.

Awaken work or Weckwurst is eaten cold or fried in a pan. As the former Mayor of Kassel Philipp Scheidemann Wecke work has liked almost burnt, this formulation is also called by Bürgermeisterart.

Common side dishes are boiled potatoes, pickled cucumber and beetroot or a green salad with Schmandsoße.

In addition to the Ahlen sausages, liver sausage and blood sausage is one of the Awakening work to the standard products of the traditional slaughter house in northern Hesse. It was originally a form of leftovers and was prepared from the offal.