Many of the recipes I dig up from my mother’s collection are copies of handwritten (or scribbled) on a sheet of tattered paper my grandmother or great aunts wrote. At times it is hard to decipher the directions, as they often only contain the bare essential instructions. Here, I include my Grandmother’s recipe for Poor Man’s Strudel – as she wrote it out many years ago. This is one of the easier recipes to read.
2 cups flour
2 sticks of Imperial oleo
work like pie dough
1/2 cup buttermilk
divide in 3 balls, makes 3 strudels
put in icebox overnight
roll out and put on ungreased cookie sheet
put bread crumbs and apples sliced thin (3 large or 4 small)
sugar and cinnamon
fold
poke holes in it
bake 400 for 1/2 hour
cheese filling
1 pack small curd cottage cheese
1 large egg – 3/4 cup sugar, 2 or 3 tbsp tapioca
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
make 1 hour ahead so tapioca melts
bake 350 1 hour
