“Sparrow” Dumplings Spaetzle

If we get pasta from Italy, from Germany we get nudeln, or noodles. From Swabia we get little egg-dough squiggles, poached like dumplings and called “spaetzle,” or “little sparrows.” The dough is as easy to make as any pasta dough, but the squiggles take a bit of practice and a lot of patience. In Germany there are spaetzle machines, just as there are pasta machines in Italy (and now the world), that work on the principle of a potato ricer. One traditional home method is to rub the d