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Chopped sticks made of dark sauce on mashed potatoes with a cucumber fan
Bacon stick with potatoes and pickles

A sauce that is eaten with potatoes is referred to as an official stippe (from stippen for eintunken , north German / Berlin expression) . Originally it was a typical “poor people's meal” because even the simple officials were relatively poor. Food leftovers often got into the sauce. There are other names for this type, such as teachers or tailors .

This term means two types of sauces:

  • Dark sauce: Mixed minced meat is cooked in gravy without searing. This variant is also known regionally as Hacktesstippe ( e.g. in the Magdeburg region ).
  • Light sauce: roux made from wheat flour is boiled up thick and mixed with fried bacon or diced ham . This variation is also called Speckstippe or Schusterstippe .

Dishes with officials and bacon can nowadays in the Berlin region, but also in other regions in northern Germany, on the menu of restaurants with regional cuisine, but consist of richer ingredients or a further side dish.

literature

  • Illustrated lexicon of German colloquial language . Volume 1, Klett-Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3125700108 , p. 314.
  • Middle Elvish dictionary . Volume 1, Akademie-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3050044624 , p. 331.