Shtrudel

The women will offer every kind of “goodies,” including cakes, rolls, shtrudels, and pastries, as well as home-made bread.

Always there’s shtrudel, the pastry that is as Jewish as puff pastry is English. Shtrudel is made of paper-thin dough filled with fruit, cheese, or nuts generously sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, then rolled in jelly roll fashion. Shtrudels have always been regarded as too difficult for the average cook to master with the rules demanding that the delicate dough be stretched so thin you can almost see through it.

Her mind, busy as a computer, put together a menu for tomorrow’s supper that would dazzle the chef of a fancy hotel. Cold spinach borscht, blintses with sour cream, and for dessert, apple and raisin shtrudel which she had made this morning while awaiting the moment to go out and meet . . . fah! H. Schenkle.