Guys. I am German and hVe cooked plenty of these. You guys are not allowed to forget there are many many different ways to make them.
I think there is more than 60 different recipes.
My favorite way to make them is still 1:1 ratio of raw ground up potatoes and cooked ground up potatoes. And mix them up and boil them in saltwater and add a soup over it like Leeks or something and then the meat to it. So delicious. :)

I make my grandmothers recipe for these German Potato Dumplings and she came from Germany. You grated the potatoes, squeeze the starch out of them, keep the starch put it back in the dumplings, add fried onions and sausage flour etc make into balls and boil in water you cook a pork roast, make gravy remove the dumplings from the water and put them in the pork gravy, Yummy it takes a better part of the day to make this dish

I agree with Airel (North Carolina)...as my own mom was born in Frankfurt, Germany and I remember her-back in the 1960's using the same instrument as for grinding meat to grind down the potatoes before boiling. This recipe is a bit tastier as the stew adds flavor. And using mashed potatoes is a whole lot easier; but the feeling of real German potato dumplings tends to be a bit firmer and whole lot more bland-depending on how much salt and pepper you choose to add!

Yes you can make them this way but you boil them..and when they float you remove them

My mother is from Kaiserlauten, Germany, and her homemade recipe says mashed potatoes (mashed VERY finely) works very well, although if you have a ricer, that would be preferable. People have to remember that there are more than one way to do something, and foods of a similar nature are prepared differently on a regional level - not everyone in Germany makes their food the same way!

I am German and never seen anybody from Bavaria, Hessen up to Nordrhein-Westfalen make potato balls like that.

Definitely NOT German. My grandmother was German and she would spend hours squeezing the starch out of potatoes through a pillowcase. Never once did she use "mashed potatoes"..

yall makin me hungry. my granny use to make the best dumplins in the world. she just called them Georgia Dumplins

German girl in Oklahoma ,this is the way i watched a German woman make them on food net work? Exactly the way. The only thing different was she rolled them out in logs about twice the size of a pencil and cut them in about 2 in. lengths.

They are boiled in the stew (read the recipe)

welll i dont know what the heat will be for the dumplings so its pretty much pointless to use this recipe

You can call that american potato dumplings, but most definitely not german!!!