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Authors: Jennie Grossinger

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Roll out as thin as possible and spread with one of the fillings. Roll up like a jelly roll, brush with oil or melted butter. Bake in a 350° oven 45 minutes. Cut into 1-inch slices while hot. Makes about 36.

FILLINGS FOR STRUDEL
CABBAGE
:

6 cups finely shredded cabbage

½ cup minced onions

⅓ cup butter or chicken fat

1½ teaspoons salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

2 teaspoons sugar

Cook the cabbage and onions in the butter or fat over low heat 25 minutes, mixing occasionally. Stir in the salt, pepper and sugar. Cool. Roll up in strudel dough. Serve with main courses.

LIVER
:

1½ pounds calf’s liver

1 cup diced onions

½ cup chicken fat

1½ teaspoons salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

Cube the liver and cook it with the onions in the chicken fat until the liver loses its redness. Chop the liver (use the fat remaining in the pan, too). Add the salt and pepper. Spread on the oiled strudel dough and roll up. Make 4 small strudels with this filling.

SAUERKRAUT
:

2 pounds sauerkraut

¼ cup minced onion

4 tablespoons butter or chicken fat

2 teaspoons sugar

¼ teaspoon pepper

Rinse the sauerkraut in cold water and drain. Cook the sauerkraut and onions in the butter or fat for 15 minutes. Stir in the sugar and pepper. Cool. Spread on strudel dough and roll up. Serve with main courses.

APPLE
:

1 cup fine bread crumbs

1½ cups ground nuts

4 cups chopped apples

2 tablespoons grated lemon rind

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 cup seedless raisins

½ cup sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

Sprinkle bread crumbs over half the oiled, stretched dough. Sprinkle the nuts over it and spread evenly with the hand. Mix the apples, lemon rind, lemon juice and raisins together. Spread over the nuts. Sprinkle with the sugar mixed with the cinnamon. Roll up.

MIXED DRIED FRUIT
:

1 pound prunes, pitted

1 pound dates, pitted

1 cup candied mixed fruit

1 whole lemon

2 cups walnuts

4 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

Grind the prunes, dates, candied fruit, lemon and walnuts in a food chopper. Divide the strudel dough in two. Spread the rolled dough with oil and use half the fruit mixture for each. Roll up, brush with oil and sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.

CHERRY
:

1½ cups finely ground nuts (except peanuts)

4 cups canned sour red cherries, pitted and drained

1 cup sugar

Spread the nuts over half the oiled strudel dough and cover with the cherries. Sprinkle with the sugar. Roll up.

POPPY SEED
:

1 pound ground poppy seeds

¾ cup honey

½ cup light cream

½ cup currants

1 tablespoon grated lemon rind

3 tablespoons melted butter

Cook the poppy seeds, honey, cream and currants until thick. Stir in the lemon rind and cool. Spread on the oiled strudel dough and roll up. Brush with the butter.

WALNUT
:

4 cups chopped walnuts

2 cups chopped apples

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

3 tablespoons grated lemon rind

Spread the nuts on half the oiled dough and cover with the apples. Sprinkle with the sugar mixed with the cinnamon and lemon rind. Roll up.

This strudel is also good made in thin rolls, so divide the dough into four, if you like, and make 4 small strudels.

COCONUT
:

3 cups shredded coconut

2 cups ground nuts

2 cups fruit preserves

For this recipe (because coconut is very rich), it is advisable to make 4 small strudels. Mix the coconut, nuts and preserves together and spread ¼ amount on each piece of oiled dough. Roll up.

CHEESE
:

2 eggs

½ cup sugar

½ pound pot cheese

½ pound cream cheese

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoons dry bread crumbs

Beat the eggs and sugar until thick. Add the pot cheese, cream cheese and vanilla. Continue to beat until smooth.

Sprinkle the bread crumbs over half the oiled strudel dough and spread the cheese mixture over it. Roll up.

Some Suggested Menus
Dairy Meals

Chopped eggs and onions

Dairy potato soup

Baked salmon

Baked potato

Mocha torte

Coffee or tea

Jennie’s herring salad

Cheese blintzes with sour cream

Yeast crumb cake

Coffee or tea

Dairy split pea soup

Fried fish

Mushrooms in sour cream

Apple fritters

Coffee or tea

Cold borsch

Lemon fish

Sweet-and-sour red cabbage

Noodle kugel

Coffee or tea

Baked herring and potatoes

Rice-stuffed cabbage

Butter cake

Coffee or tea

Meat Meals

Lentil soup

Roast tongue

Roast potato

Prunes and beets

Cookies

Tea or black coffee

Barley-bean soup

Baked veal chops

Sweet-potato tzimmes

Fried eggplant

Apple strudel

Tea or black coffee

Flanken soup

Boiled flanken

Boiled potato

Horseradish

Grapefruit or melon

Tea or black coffee

Herring forshmak

Noodle-stuffed duck

Tzibbele kugel

Applesauce

Sponge cake

Tea or black coffee

Tomato soup

Stuffed breast of veal

Potato stuffing

Honeyed carrots

Mandelbrot

Tea or black coffee

Friday Night Dinner

Gefilte fish

Chicken soup with mandlen

Baked chicken

Potato kugel

Carrot-and-apple tzimmes

Honey cake

Tea or black coffee

Saturday Lunch

Chopped liver

Meat cholent

Cucumber salad

Cookies

Tea or black coffee

Passover Meals
CEREMONIAL PASSOVER FOODS

Boiled carp with horseradish

Roast turkey

Mixed-fruit tzimmes

Beet salad

Potato-flour sponge cake

Tea or black coffee

Passover borsch

Matzo brie

Applesauce

Tea or coffee

Chopped eggs and onions

Chremsel and sour cream

Fluffy walnut cake

Tea or coffee

Suggested Menus for the Principal Holidays
Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year)

Fresh sliced pineapple

Chicken soup with kreplach

Roast turkey

Sweet potato royal

Bean panache

Cucumber salad

Cranberry sauce

Honey cake

Taiglach

Challah

Assorted nuts

Tea or black coffee

Gefilte fish with beet horseradish

Chicken soup with liver balls

Roast beef

Kishke

Cauliflower

Wilted red-cabbage slaw

Apple cake

Taiglach

Dates and figs

Challah

Tea or black coffee

Succoth (Feast of the Tabernacles)

Chilled tomato juice

Gefilte fish with beet horseradish

Barley-bean soup

Roast stuffed goose

Noodle-apple pudding

Braised kale

Pickled vegetable salad

Pineapple chiffon pie

Challah

Assorted nuts, dates and figs

Tea or black coffee

Cranshaw melon

Celery and olives

Gefilte fish with horseradish

Potage à la Reine

Cornish hen with wild rice

Cauliflower

Brussels sprouts

Beet salad

Mandelbrot

Challah

Assorted fresh fruits

Tea or black coffee

Chanukah (Festival of Lights)

Chanukah is one of the most joyous Jewish holidays. It is a holiday which is celebrated by lighting of the Chanukah candles, giving of gifts to children, spinning the
dreidel,
and it is one that brings out the joy of family living.

In the way of food, potato
latkes
(pancakes) and
kreplach
are the order of the day. Because this is an eight-day holiday, we are not giving you any single menu but suggest experimenting with a variety of dishes suitable for festive occasions in the winter. Traditionally, the custom was to consume vast quantities of potato pancakes while the elders and children had fun spinning the
dreidel.

Purim (Festival of Lots)

Chopped eggs and onions

Cabbage borsch

Stuffed breast of veal

Leaf spinach

Mixed-fruit tzimmes

Dill pickles

Hamentaschen

Assorted nuts

Tea or black coffee

Petcha

Chicken soup with mandlen

Baked chicken

Noodle kugel

Green peas

Cole slaw

Stewed prune compote

Hamentaschen

Dates and figs

Tea or black coffee

Pesach (Festival of Passover)

See also
SOME SUGGESTED MENUS
,
this page

Half grapefruit

Celery and olives

Gefilte fish with beet horseradish

Meat borsch

Roast pullet

Fresh asparagus

Potato kugel

Hearts of lettuce with Russian dressing

Passover macaroons

Assorted nuts

Matzos

Tea or black coffee

Spanish melon

Chicken soup with knaidlach

Pot roast with vegetables

Matzo farfel

Honeyed carrots

Cole slaw

Sponge cake

Matzos

Fresh fruit bowl

Tea or black coffee

Shavuoth (Festival of the Torah)

(
DAIRY DISHES ARE FAVORED DURING THIS TWO-DAY HOLIDAY
)

Cantaloupe

Vegetarian chopped liver

Scotch barley soup

Baked stuffed brook trout Meunière

Asparagus

Fresh baby lima beans

Tossed salad with French dressing

Blueberry pie

Assorted nuts

Tea or coffee

Fresh grapefruit cup

Split pea soup

Sweet-and-sour fish

Creamed beets

Mushroom piroshki

Cucumber salad

Date-nut torte

Fresh fruit bowl

Tea or coffee

Traditional Friday Night

Fresh fruit cocktail

Gefilte fish with beet horseradish

Chicken soup with noodles

Pot-roasted chicken

Sweet-potato-and-prune tzimmes

String beans

Hearts of lettuce and tomato salad

Applesauce

Almond squares

Challah

Assorted nuts

Tea or black coffee

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