Claw chicken
Klaushähnchen or Klaus-Hähnchen , in Low German Sunner-Klaus-Hähnken , is a regional and seasonal pastry that is traditionally produced and sold in many places in the Tecklenburger Land during Advent .
The festive pastries are mostly handcrafted from yeast cake dough with aniseed , baked and sprinkled with sugar . It is shaped like a chicken and is about six inches long, eight inches high, and two inches thick. On special occasions, however, there are sometimes larger-sized chickens. The name of the pastry is derived from the chicken shape from Sunner Klaus , the Low German name for St. Nicholas Day .
Little chickens are traditionally distributed primarily to children on St. Nicholas Day and St. Martin's Day , and in Mettingen at the opening of the annual Christmas market .
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- ↑ Hubert Rickelmann : Mettingen through the ages . 2nd, improved edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-77222-8 , pp. 627-628
- ↑ cf. z. B. Antje Kahle: Mettingen shines brightly. (No longer available online.) In: Westline-Lokalarchiv. Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung, December 1, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 4, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
