The Family Table: A 4-Generation Holiday Side, From Germany to America

Readers share their treasured recipes

(From L to R) The author's great-grandfather Asmus Peter Christiansen, grandmother Margarette, and great-grandmother Caroline Ernestine Christiansen in Flensburg, Germany, in 1908. Courtesy of Kent Higgins

Submitted by Kent Higgins, Highlands Ranch, Colorado

When I was a teenager, my grandmother Margarette (1888–1966) taught me how to prepare a few traditional German meals, which her mother, Caroline (1853–1936), had taught her. These recipes all originated in northern Germany in the Eschersand and Sonderborg, Schleswig-Holstein areas near Flensburg.