Recipe for a Swabian lentil dish

Ingredients (for 4 servings):

250 g lentils (soak in cold water over night)
1 l of meat broth
1 onion (studded with cloves and bay leaves)
100 g lean bacon cubes
!bs" of diced onions
4 !bs" of flour
#alt (sou$ seasoning mi%)
&rain water from soaked lentils and boil in broth with the studded onion until tender" 'raise bacon( and
onion cubes) dust with flour and let brown slightly) add lentils and bring to a *uick boil" +dd salt
according to taste"
+ #wabian eats #$,t-le saut.ed in hot butter with the lentils (see reci$e below)) hot string sausages and
marbled bacon"
Recipe for Sptzle
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
400 g of flour
2 eggs
a $inch of salt
1/ ( 1/4 l water (or diluted milk)
1 #$,t-le board
1 scra$er
1 !bs" of oil
0re$are a dough with flour) eggs and salt" +dd water and beat until bubbles form" 'ring water to a boil
in a large $ot"
&am$en #$,t-le board with cold water) add a small amount of dough to the board and scra$e narrow
$ieces of dough into the boiling salt water using the dam$ened scra$er"
1hen the #$,t-le rise to the surface) remove immediately with a slotted s$oon) rinse well with cold
water and let drain" #aut. in melted butter or $our brown butter over it"