Spatzen and Spaetzle

[MVSCHNUR]

At 09:22 AM 2/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Are "spatzen" and "spaetzle" the same thing?
>
>Merriam-Webster's Tenth Collegiate defines "spaetzle" as "a small dumpling
>cooked by running batter through a colander into boiling water."
>
>I found "spatzen" in a 1901 cookbook, which specified "drop [the batter] by
>teaspoons into boiling soup."
>
>        - Jim Landau

Spatzen = Sparrows, pl. Spaetzle = sparrow (diminutive). They are both
dumplings, but I don't know if there is culinary difference.

M.V. Schnur