Festival Food and Beverages

  The winners of the German Baking contest were:
              1) Carolyn Schimmel submitted a Plum Kuchen
              2) Rosie Witt submitted a Philadelphia Torte and
              3) Lieselotte Sielicki submitted an Apple Strudel

•  Sidewalk Café – Sidewalk Café – enjoy homemade Kuchen, Strudels, cookies, Lebkuchen and a variety of other homemade pastries.  This is a very pleasant and relaxing place to sit down at a cozy table to enjoy your favorite dessert and coffee.  New in 2009: German Strudel & Kuchen Baking Contest on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.  Submit entry to the Sidewalk Café (along with the recipe) on the day of the event!

•  Grill & Cheese Haus – Indoor/outdoor Swiss Bäckerei featuring many types of cheeses, breads, and meats.  Sausages, sandwiches and roast pork dinners are made to order.

•  Maxi-Cooker – in order to ensure that each of the thousands of chickens served at the German-American Festival is perfectly cooked, we have a chicken cooker with state of the art controls.  The Maxi-Cooker has the capability to 600 chickens, 400 servings of ribs, 1,100 pounds of pork loin or 1,400 pounds of ham.

•  Potato Pancakes – enjoy hand made potato pancakes made the old German way.

•  Schnitzel Sandwiches – masterfully made in front of you, served on a Kaiser roll.

•  And plenty of other food items – ham shanks, Bratwurst, jalapeño Wurst, smoked Wurst, pretzels, funnel cakes, Leberkäs platters, Sauerkraut, cheddar Wurst, hand made potato salad, Sauerkraut balls, hand cut Pommes Frites, ice cream, cream puffs, pickles, landjäger, sweet corn and freshly popped popcorn!  Special Sunday dinner: Beef Rouladen with Spätzle & Rotkohl.  New in 2009:  Brat patties!

•  Featured Beers – from Germany – Featured Beers – New in 2009 our light beer: Labatt Blue Light and from Germany: Hofbräu Dunkel plus Warsteiner, Warsteiner Dunkel (Dark), Warsteiner Oktoberfest, König Ludwig Weisse, Spaten Lager, Spaten Dunkel, Spaten Oktoberfest, Spaten Optimator, Franziskaner Weissbier, Franziskaner Dunkel, Paulaner Oktoberfest, Paulaner Hefe Weisse, Paulaner Salvator,  Hofbräu Original,  Hofbräu Oktoberfestbier Hofbräu Dunkel, Bitburger, Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock, Ayinger Oktoberfest, Hacker-Pschorr Sternweisse, Hacker-Pschorr Weisse, Erdinger Hefe, Köstritzer Schwarzbier and Köstritzer Oktoberfest served in the German Bier Garten and throughout the Festival!  We proudly feature one of the largest collections of German beers at any Festival!  Returning in 2009 is the German Bier Tour.

•  Wine List - Our wine list includes: Schlink Haus Beerenauslese, Auslese, Kabinett, Red Sweet Dornfelder, Riesling QBA and Spätlese, Schmitt Sohne Riesling QBA, Riesling Kabinett, Riesling Spätlese and Riesling QBA.

•  Give Trash the Boot! Returning in 2009! Plastic boot shaped souvenirs for you to take home.  Drinking from a boot or Stiefel is a long-time German tradition.  Made popular on the film "Beerfest!"

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Recipes

 German Potato Pancakes

Step 1. Peel & grate 10 raw potatoes and 3 medium onions.
Step 2. Add 4 or 5 slightly beaten eggs, 1/2 cup flour, 2 teaspoons salt.
Step 3. Use a hot skillet, add about 1/2 inch oil.
Step 4. Spoon about 2 ounces of batter into HOT oil.
Step 5. Fry on both sides until golden brown.

Do not flip flop back and forth, only ones or they get soft. Served best with applesauce.

German Potato Salad

Step 1. Boil 2 LBS. potatoes in skin. Cool and peel. Slice potatoes.
Step 2. Dissolve 4 chicken bouillon cubes in hot water and poor over potatoes.
Step 3. Brown about 1/2 LBS. sliced bacon and 1 large onion. add to potatoes and toss
Step 4. Boil about 1/2 cup of vinegar and 1 teaspoon sugar and add to potatoes .
Step 5. Add pepper and salt to taste. Served either warm or cold. (prima good!)

 

 FOOD & BEVERAGES CONSUMED AT 2008 GERMAN-AMERICAN FESTIVAL

6,100 ears of sweet corn

3,000 chicken halves

350 hot dogs

275 gallons of Sauerkraut

4,800 dinner rolls

10,500 hot dog and sausage buns

2 tons of handmade German potato salad

660 smoked “Old World” style Frankfurters

9,500 various Bratwurst

500 Bratwurst patties

5,000 smoked sausages

500 Käsewurst (new in 2008!)

1,500 smoked pork shanks

500 servings of Leberkäs (veal loaf)

400 servings of Kassler Rippchen (smoked pork chops)

1,000 servings of Schnitzel for sandwiches

5,000 pairs of Landjäger

6,000 pretzels

1,500 whole kosher pickles

                            540 pounds of Sauerkraut balls

50,000 hand-made potato pancakes (over 1-1/2 tons of potatoes)

650 barrels and cases of domestic and imported beers

50 cases of German wines

40 cases liqueurs and spirits

7,400 bottles of soda pop

4,000 bottles of water

Over 1,200 slices of hand made cakes

300 slices of miscellaneous cakes

300 Lebkuchen (gingerbread) hand decorated hearts

315 mini Strudels

1,200 hand made cookies

425 loaves of bread (sold as “to go”)

Over 650 pounds of assorted cheeses

700 pounds of assorted deli meats

580 doughnuts and éclairs

Over 6,000 scoops of ice cream

600 cream puffs

1,700 servings of candied, roasted almonds

200 pounds of popcorn

1-1/2 tons of hand-cut Pommes Frites – French Fries

Over 5 tons of ice

Over 1,200 cups of coffee

Over 500 cups of iced tea