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  • This, of course, also explains why we were taught to play in the childhood: Der Haensli ist ern Butterbrot, mein Butterbrot!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Page 270, l. 19. _belegtes Butterbrot_: sandwiches.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • Butterbrot_ and drank Pilsener as our neighbours did.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • In South Germany all the men and many women drink beer or wine with this light meal, but in Prussia most people are content with a _belegtes Butterbrot_, a roll cut in two, buttered, and spread with meat or sausage or smoked fish.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • Lavater gives us a picture of him at one moment on the voyage -- with gray hat, adorned with a bunch of flowers, with a brown silk necktie and gray collar, gnawing a _Butterbrot_ like a wolf.

    The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883

  • Wurstbrot made with Butterbrot and slices of sausage or cold cuts.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • There are four major components to Butterbrot: the bread must be dense and chewy but substantial so the butter will spread properly; the butter is traditionally a soured cream butter from Germany or Ireland; and the toppings should be quality sausages, cheeses, radishes, pickles or onions.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • Eierbrot is a Butterbrot topped with egg - hard-boiled, scrambled, poached, or fried.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • There is a particularly German, open-faced sandwich called Butterbrot.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • Kasebrot made with Butterbrot and either slices of cheese or spread able cheeses.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

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