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{{Short description|Potato dish}}
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| name             = Heap of several Pickerts
| image            = LippPickert.jpg
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| country          = [[Germany]]
| region           = [[Lippe (district)|Lippe]] and [[Westphalia]]
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| type             = [[Dumpling]]
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| main_ingredient  = [[Potato]]es, [[flour]], [[milk]], [[Egg (food)|eggs]], usually [[raisin]]s, [[Baker's yeast|yeast]], salt, [[sugar]], [[oil]]
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A '''pickert''' ({{IPA|de|ˈpɪkɐt|lang|De-Pickert.ogg}}) is a flat, fried or baked [[potato]] [[dish (food)|dish]] from [[Westphalia]], [[Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pickert {{!}} Traditional Pancake From Westphalia {{!}} TasteAtlas |url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/pickert |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=www.tasteatlas.com}}</ref> It can be considered a kind of flattened [[dumpling]] or very nourishing [[pancake]]. It comes as a round ''Pfannenpickert'' the size of a pan, a rectangular ''Kastenpickert'', or a palm-sized regular ''Pickert''. The name is derived from [[Low German]] ''picken'', ''pecken'' ("to stick something onto something else").

The main ingredients are grated potatoes, [[flour]], [[milk]], [[Egg (food)|eggs]], and (usually) [[raisin]]s, with a little [[Baker's yeast|yeast]], salt and [[sugar]], and [[oil]] for the baking. Three big potatoes produce 10–15 palm-sized pickerts, enough for 4–5 people.

Pickerts are a specialty of the district of [[Lippe (district)|Lippe]], where they developed from a traditional meal for the poorer people. In former times, Pickert was eaten as breakfast or lunch by poor farmers, being a cheap and very nourishing dish, as would be required of food for a day's work in the fields.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pickert {{!}} Traditional Pancake From Westphalia {{!}} TasteAtlas |url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/pickert |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=www.tasteatlas.com}}</ref> They are now served spread with [[sugar beet syrup]], butter or (plum) jam, or [[leberwurst]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pickert {{!}} Traditional Pancake From Westphalia {{!}} TasteAtlas |url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/pickert |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=www.tasteatlas.com}}</ref>

A related dish, ''Lappenpickert'', is found in the regions west of Lippe, towards [[Münster]] and the [[Ruhr Area]]. It does not usually contain raisins and yeast, but may have a dash of [[sweet cream]] added. ''Lappenpickert'' is usually baked in rather thin pancakes on a [[griddle]] greased with a side of [[lard]], and eaten with the same spreads as Pickerts from Lippe, or with smoked fish or [[cold cut]]s.

==See also==
* [[Rösti]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Wiktionary|Pickert}}
* [http://foodfamily.net/lippischer-pickert/ Recipe on FoodFamily.net]
* [http://www.lipperland.de/lippischer-pickert/lippischer-pickert.html Recipe and more information on lipperland.de - German]
* [http://www.stadtdetmold.de/232.0.html Recipe on the website of the City of Detmold - German]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161205015659/http://ollenburg.de/familie/ulrike/lippischer-pickert/ Recipe from Detmold-Brokhausen - German]
* [http://lippisches.itsmyplanet.info/rez-pickert.html Recipe on lippisches.de - German]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180502064910/http://www.lippischer-pickert.de/ Recipes and Stories around the Pickert on lippischer-pickert.de - German]

{{Potato dishes}}
{{Dumplings}}

[[Category:Baked foods]]
[[Category:Dumplings]]
[[Category:Fried foods]]
[[Category:Potato dishes]]
[[Category:Westphalian cuisine]]


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