Recipes

Frankfurt Green Sauce

with hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes

Frankfurt Green Sauce is served cold over hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes. It is made of seven different kinds of herbs: borage, chervil, cress, parsley, salad burnet, sorrel and chives.

The most famous myth is that green sauce was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's favourite dish, invented by his mother. Actually, the first green sauce recipe was published in 1860 in a cookbook by Wilhelmine Rührig, but Frankfurt locals love to connect their favourite fare to the renowned author, who was born in Frankfurt.

Hand cheese with music

"Handkas mit Musik" is a traditional local dish consisting of How to prepare this typical Frankfurt dish

Frankfurter Kranz

Butter-creme cake Frankfurt style

Frankfurt Crown Cake was created by an unknown master baker in 1735. It symbolises a crown, with golden brittle placed around the outside and jewel-like cherries as decoration. Frankfurt was seen as the "crown city" of the German Empire for many years.

Bethmännchen

Typical Frankfurt delicacy that are traditionally baked for Christmas.

Hot apple wine

The hot “Ebbelwei” is the Hessian alternative to mulled wine and is served in Frankfurt at Christmas time.

Christmas Crown Cake

The classic Frankfurt delicacy interpreted for Christmas.