Re: [Cz-L] Fluden

[Plain Text please --thanks]

Mimi this sounds fabulous! I will make it for Rosh-Hashana and let you know.

Ilana

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>wrote:

> This in response to Mordecai Lapidot's request for a recipe of Fluden.
>
> Fluden is indeed a Czernowitz or Bukovina Jewish delicacy.
> I do not have a true accurate recipe, but I will tell here some very
> general instructions,
> which I got from my great aunt Rifka Steinmetz of Radauti.
> It is a traditional sweet made for Rosh-Hashana.
>
> The dough for Fluden is a "Strudel" dough, pulled thin just as it would be
> for apple strudel.
> First bread crumbs richly fried in butter are sprinkled on the dough,
> then comes a layer of chopped walnuts,
> next - some peeled apples chopped fine,
> then some chopped dried fruit, like apricots, dates, figs, candied orange
> peel and raisins.
> Next sprinkle some cinnamon on it, but very little so as to not drown all
> the other flavors.
> and last but not least, some honey is drizzled over everything.
> Roll the dough up very tightly (It should be much smaller when sliced than
> an apple strudel),
> and bake in a hot oven till done.
>
> The major taste should be of the nuts and dried fruit.
> The apples are added for moisture. The fried bread-crumbs for the butter
> and to soak up
> any excess of juice given off by the apples.
>
> Mimi
>
>
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