Aunt Feige’s Bagellach
Why I Love This Recipe
Aunt Feige was Rita’s older sister
Dough is not quite as dry as for Strudel.
Kosher (dairy).
Ingredients You'll Need
Ingredients:
Blattelach (dough leaf)
Potato OR Kashe Filling
1 onion
1/8 lb butter
Mazola oil for bagellach
Blattelach (dough leaf) Ingredients:
1 C flour (plus extra for mixing dough and preparing dough leaf)
1 tsp salt
1 egg white
1/2 C to 1 C hot water
Potato Filling Ingredients:
3 big potatoes, mashed coarsely
Little salt
Little pepper
Kashe Filling Ingredients:
Kashe (similar amount as for potato filling)
2 lbs hoop cheese
2 egg yolks
Little sugar
Little salt
Directions
Directions: Blattelach (dough leaf)
Mix 1 C flour and salt well with a knife
Add more flour and mix well until a floured finger doesn’t stick, but a non-floured one does.
Put on floured board and pat.
Cut into 2 parts and let sit (covered) at least an hour and a half.
Cover kitchen table with cloth
Flour the cloth.
Roll one part of the dough a little with stick, pick up on stick, wave to stretch, roll, etc. until all dough covers much of table and all of stick.
Stretch some with hands, then let it sit.
Pick up edges, wave a bit to stretch.
Wait. Talk to someone, be patient.
Stretch and wait some more.
When almost dry in center, keep pulling off sticky edges.
Can read newspaper through dough when ready (not quite as dry as for Strudel).
Directions: Assembly
Brown onion in butter and Mazola
Put in potato or Kashe filling
Sprinkle oil over Blattelach
Place filling on dough, about 1 inch in diameter
2 per blattelach.
Cut in middle.
Put first roll over, pick up cloth to roll.
Cut 3” to 6” long.
Put in greased pan
Bake in 350 to 400 degree oven until crispy and brown on top.
