Himmel und Erde ('Heaven and earth') is a traditional German dish of mashed potato with stewed apples. It is frequently served with slicedblood sausage.
The dish is popular in theRhineland,Westphalia,Lower Saxony and, historically, inSilesia. It has been known since the 18th century. In the Rhineland the dish is frequently writtenHimmel un Ääd, to reflect local dialect pronunciation.
The name of the dish alludes to "earth apples" (Erdäpfel, a Southern German name for potatoes) and "sky apples", meaning apples from trees. The GermanHimmel means both 'sky' and 'heaven'.[1]
Mashed potato with apples is also popular in theGelderland andNorth Brabant regions of the Netherlands, where it is known ashete bliksem ('hot lightning').[2] The Dutch variant usually mixes the potatoes and apples together as astamppot and may add stewed pears.[citation needed]
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