It will amaze you and it is as German as it gets.

Cheers…Doug Burrer

Thank you very much for your mother’s recipe of knaefla soup. It doesn’t call for water – does it take water? If so how much? What are speatzles – I have never heard that word.

My father was german but my mother was Irish so we hardly knew any German foods. Dad tried to tell her, but it didn’t work very well.

Look forward to hearing from you and I will definetly will try the recipe.

Thanks again,
Nancy Forhan

She made the Knaefla soup very different from most germans, here is her recipe, this will serve about two.

1/2 pound hamburger,
2 potatoes cubed,
[I use store bought speatzles]
1/2 can tomato soup
1 tbsp beef broth,
2-3 bay leaves
salt and pepper to taste

Can add some onion salt, she did not, as my dad was not fond of onions.

Bring water to a boil, crumble hamburger into boiling water, add potatoes and spices, cook until potatoes are tender, add spaetzles and tomato soup, simmer until ready to eat, this is a complete meal.

Information from reputable journals; from Paradise on the Steppe, by Joseph Height (pages 356-359); Height’s source probably from Geschichte der Diozese Tyraspol, von Joseph Alfonsius Keßler (1930).

BISHOP DR. ALEXANDER FRISON (1873-1937)
Alexander Frison was born May 5, 1873 in village of Baden, Kutschurgan District (Odessa); went to diocesan minor seminary in Saratov; after three years (at age 15) returned home helping to operate the farm when his father became seriously ill; at age 22 returned to Saratov to resume studies in the preparatory seminary; after completion of courses in minor seminary was sent in 1897 to Rome by Bishop Anton Zerr for theological studies; returned to Saratov in autumn of 1902 and was ordained by Bishop von der Ropp on November 23, 1902; celebrated First Mass in his native village of Baden on December 3, 1902; after a few days went to Rome for two years to receive doctoral degrees in philosophy and theology; autumn of 1904 returned to Saratov and was appointed by Bishop Joseph Kessler as his secretary and as curate at the cathedral; 1905 was appointed professor of theology at the seminary; 1910 was appointed rector of seminary; 1917 Bishop Kessler, professors (including Dr. Frison) and seminarians fled to Odessa to escape the Bolsheviks; 1919 Frison was appointed to the parish of Kerch, in the Crimea; few years later became parish priest in Simferopol and came under surveillance of Communist spies; 1925 was imprisoned eight months for an act of charity without having official permission; May 1929 was summoned to the French embassy in Moscow; May 10, 1929 was secretly consecrated a bishop and was appointed apostolic administrator of the Crimea; returned to Simferopol where Communist spies informed authorities of his trip to Moscow; was arrested and held in prison for three weeks where he confessed of having been consecrated bishop; imprisoned in 1930 and in 1935; August 13, 1936 arrested on charge of espionage; was imprisoned beginning of 1937, was in solitary confinement and subjected to Soviet-style interrogations; March 8, 1937 appeared before the ruthless NKVD (secret police), trial lasting nine days; sentenced to death March 17, 1937 and executed same day by a firing squad; according to a report, body was quartered and thrown into a ravine; Bishop Kessler heard of a report that Bolsheviks threw the body into the Black Sea near Sebastopol; neither report is verifiable.