Winter delicacies from Thüringer Wald

As far as I understand it, you won't find this really anywhere else in Germany, except isolated in the Thuringia forest. In teaching English for a community college of sorts for the area of villages surrounding Weimar, I was invited by a family to come over on Sunday for a long afternoon to enjoy this specialty from the forest just south of Weimar.

Here we go:
First you take potatoes (preferably from your garden), cook them and peel them (Germans always peel their potatoes after they cook them – don't ask why, I never understood it...). Then you smash them through this thing:




Then you mix it with flour to make a sort of dough, and roll it into large rolls:



Then you cut off a slice of the roll, and then roll that out, into a flat pancake, and cut it into pieces:



I tried this part. I failed.



And put them on a pan and cook for a couple of minutes on both sides:



You butter them up and stack them up; it's a family affair:



And several hours later, behold, the potato tortilla!

You dip them in sugar and eat them with hot chocolate, and alas, you don't need to eat again for the whole day.

Many thanks to Familie Rausch!

PS – This is why you might want to stay inside and enjoy cooking: