Ingredients:

50 ml of Water (to obtain a dense mixture)
400 gr. of Flour
6-8 gr. of Salt
4 Eggs

Directions:

Pour in a bowl the flour and then put in its centre the eggs, the salt and the water.

Amalgamate everything together until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous mixture whose thickness should allow you to make it fall down in big drops from the wooden spoon. For this reason be careful in adding the water: maybe it will be necessary to use more then just 50 ml of this liquid.

When the mixture is ready, take a potato masher and place it on a pot full of boiling water. Now put some of the mixture in the potato masher and push in order to make the little dumplings fall in the water.

When they resurface on the water they will be cooked and ready to be drained.

Another way of forming the spätzli is to put some of the mixture on a humid wooden tablet using a wet cake slice to scrape some pieces of this mixture making then fall into the boiling water.

All the pieces should be more or less similar in order to require the same cooking time.  Also in this case you can drain the spätzli when they resurface on the boiling water.

The spätzli are very tasty if dressed with fresh cream or melted butter and covered with chives and grated Parmesan.

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