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Ploatz

Germany

Ploatz is a hearty sheet cake made of rye bread dough with variable topping, a speciality of the Haune valley of Hesse, Germany. It is common in Upper Hesse, Franconia, Middle Franconia, Rhön and Hohenlohe.

Rhöner Plootz, stone oven cake with potato and sour cream cream, onions, leaf spinach, Gouda and shepherd's cheese. Photographed in the restaurant Platzhisrsch in Bad Kissingen.
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Ploatz is a hearty sheet cake made of rye bread dough with variable topping, a speciality of the Haune valley of Hesse, Germany. It is common in Upper Hesse, Franconia, Middle Franconia, Rhön and Hohenlohe. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ploatz”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Ploatz is German cake variety, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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