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Eiernockerl
Simple and popular Austrian culinary dish
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Eiernockerl (German, egg dumplings) is a simple, yet popular, Austrian dish of the Viennese cuisine.[1][2]
Origin
Dumplings are popular in all regions of Austria.
Ingredients and variants
The typical ingredients for Eiernockerl are flour, eggs, milk, butter, and then salt, pepper, ground nutmeg, and for decoration chives.[2] Eiernockerl is usually served with a side dish of green salad.[1]
It is also made to use up leftover Nockerl. [3]
Some of the Austrian dumplings' main variants are: Krautspatzen, with sauerkraut roasted in butter; Apfelspatzen, with apples; and Erdäpfelspatzen, with peeled potatoes.[1]
Hitler association
In 1997, Wolfgang Fröhlich, Holocaust denier[4] and former district council member for the Freedom Party, alleged that Adolf Hitler's favorite food was Eiernockerl.[5] Some restaurants in Austria started advertising the dish as a "daily special" for the 20th of April, which is Hitler's date of birth.[5] Accordingly, many neofascists have taken to celebrate Hitler's birthday by eating Eiernockerl while they promote the event on social media as strictly culinary.[6]
Hitler was actually fond of Leberknödel (liver dumplings).[7]: 78 Austrian historian Roman Sandgruber, in his biography of Hitler's father Alois, notes that the traditional foods of Braunau am Inn were mostly meatless, with Kaiserschmarrn, Eiernockerl, and Rohrnudeln all being popular, giving young Adolf a taste for cabbage, dumplings, and pastries.[8]: 110 Johannes J. Eibl's 1965 book Ewige Wahrheit ("Eternal Truth") features an interview with a cook who'd worked at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich, in which she describes Eiernockerl as Hitler's "favourite dish."[9]: 146
An account of Hitler's tour of Vienna after the Anschluss relates that he dined on Eiernockerl and green salad.[10]: 14
While Eiernockerl is normally served in Austrian restaurants every day of the year, it remains a special heritage dish.[6]