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From: Scharek Péter <>
Subject: RE: [HUNGARY-L] Strudel Recipe
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:55:36 +0100
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Dear List,

As I can see, the recipes are going to reach to be:

bukta (strudel)

kifli (Kifels)

and finally

beigli (it is the Christnas version)

All are rolled and filled with diferent things (jam, poppy, nut, apricot etc).

I think Joseph can translate better than me, a native Hungarian (my grandfather
was German..., It is the Carpathian Basin's life!)

Best wishes

Peter
Budapest



Idézés Elizabeth V Cardinal <>:

> Strudel is strudel...it is a thin flaky dough.....
>
> Then there are yeast breads filled with poppy seed or ground nuts
>
> There are also filled cookies....my mother called them Kifles...or
> Kifels....they were rolled out into little circles, filled with a mixture of
> ground walnuts sour cream and sugar and folded to look like a crescent.
> Sometimes she put powdered sugar on them, sometimes, she did not. She would
> also make the same cookies with an apricot filling.
>
> We lost her recipe...aunts have given me their version...using sour cream in
> the dough and one that calls for cream cheese in the dough.
>
> I doubt the latter recipe is authentic as I have not heard of Hungarians
> using cream cheese in dough....maybe now but not in the "old days".
>
> As my maternal grandmothers maiden name was Grund and she was from Band,
> Veszprem Megye where lots of Germans settled years and years ago, some of
> the recipes may have a German flavor...or may be a mix of Hungarian and
> German.
>
> My aunt made what she called Cabbage strudel and to me it was more of a
> bread like dough than the thin flaky kind.
>
> Perhaps if I have enough energy with all the holiday functions we have to
> attend (business and social) I might make a batch this year....meaning
> Kifels...strudel thanks to Phyllo is simple and easy to make.
>
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>
> Elizabeth V. Cardinal
>
>
> "All my life, I've done for you. Now it's my turn to do for me."
> (from the Red Hat Society theme song)
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