Grütze

Etymology
From, from , of the same root as = ,.

The term is applied to “ground” fruit because older desserts such as originally included cereal grains, and preserved the name despite substituting starch for the cereal grains; more recent dishes (e.g. ) are named by analogy to the older dishes. For the “shrewdness“ sense a contamination by Early New High German cannot be excluded, that apart from being an instance noun to complement today’s  also meant “wit”.

Noun

 * 1) a food of coarsely ground cereal grains: groat(s)
 * 2) coarse "grains" or bits of fruit, or a dish made from these
 * rote Grütze = a fruit pudding containing chunks of red fruits (e.g. redcurrants and raspberries)
 * 1)  brains, shrewdness, prudence
 * 2)  intellectual poverty, brainlet, retardation
 * 3)  rhubarb rhubarb, humbug, aesthetical tripe
 * 1)  intellectual poverty, brainlet, retardation
 * 2)  rhubarb rhubarb, humbug, aesthetical tripe
 * 1)  rhubarb rhubarb, humbug, aesthetical tripe