VIDEO: The forgotten Purim pastry from medieval France and Germany
Learn how to make the tasty Jewish dessert, fluden, In this Yiddish cooking demo with English subtitles
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If, like me, your Bubbe doesn’t speak Yiddish, take a lesson from the ladies who do.
The latest Yiddish cooking video (with English subtitles) by Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz, shows us how to make fluden, an oft forgotten Ashkenazi pastry with roots in medieval German-speaking regions and northern France. Rolled and baked into a log, the rich dough is stuffed with apricot preserves, chopped dates, walnuts and raisins and sliced into pieces while it’s still warm. Serve it with a glass of tea — make that a glezl tey.
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