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Recipes from the 50th Anniversary Kugel & Rugelach Bake-Off

 KUGEL
Isabel Barnert

 Served at the Miekve Israel Synagogue in Savannah, Georgia
 
 
1 lb. fine noodles
6 eggs
2 cups apricot nectar
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
1 stick margarine
 
Topping:
1 cup crushed corn flakes
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 stick margarine, melted
 
Cook noodles; drain.
 
Add margarine, milk, nectar, eggs, and sugar to noodles and put into baking pan. 
 
For topping, combine melted margarine and sugar, stir in cornflakes. Sprinkle atop noodle mixture. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Apple Noodle Pudding
Breena Daniell
 
 
Servings: 12
Preparation Time: 40 minutes
 
 
1 8-ounce package medium egg noodles
1/4 cup butter or margarine
8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup golden raisins (optional)
 
Topping: 
2 Tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 large apples, peeled, cored, seeded, and sliced thin
 
Cook noodles as stated on side of box. Drain and return to pot. Add 1/4 cup butter to noodles and toss gently.
 
With electric mixer beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add sugar a little at a time. Beat in eggs until blended well. Scrape down the sides of bowl with spatula often and beat until all mixed together.
 
On low speed add milk, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt. Blend until mixed well. Fold into noodles, add apples and raisins. Turn into a greased 9x9 baking dish.
 
Bake 350 for 20 minutes.
 
Meanwhile, 2 Tbs. butter, add graham cracker crumbs and a little cinnamon if desired and mix together.
 
Remove casserole from oven and sprinkle with crumb mixture.
Return to oven and bake for 30 minutes longer or until custard is firm.
 

Serve with brunch or as a side dish to dinner. 

Aunt Siouxz’s Kugal
Jane Wolfman
 
Ingredients:
            1/2 lb. butter
            1 lb. cream cheese
            1 cup sugar
            6 eggs
            16 oz (1 pt.) sour cream
            1 cup milk
            1 lb. thin egg noodles
 
Topping:
            1 stick butter
            1 cup brown sugar
            3 cups whole corn flakes
 
1.        Grease 13” pyrex baking dish
2.        Blend butter and cream cheese
3.        Add sugar
4.        Add eggs
5.        Add sour cream and then milk
6.        Prepare noodles and cool
7.        Put noodles in dish and pour liquid over top
8.        Refrigerate overnight or for several hours if possible
9.        Bring to room temperature
10.     Bake at 350 for 1/2 hour
11.     While baking, melt 1 stick butter
                                                Add brown sugar
                                                Add corn flakes
12.     Gently mix together to coat flakes
13.     Take kugal out after 1/2 hr. and spread topping
14.     Cook 1/2 hour more.
 

                                                            Enjoy! 

Kugel
Abbe Smerling
 
Butter the pan you are using
 
1-12 oz medium broad noodles (cook 10 minutes and drain)
1 pint of sour cream
1 pound of creamed cottage cheese, (I used Breakstones 2% )
2 eggs (mixed in a glass first)
white raisins
1 tsp. vanilla
 
     Mix all together, and pour into a glass dish (9X13)
Sprinkle cinnamon on top, and then add a can or two of prepared pie filling. 
 
Bake 350 degrees for at least an hour, check it
 
If in an aluminum pan 325 degrees for an hour
 
Serves at least 12 people.
 
Be creative, for the 4th of July use Red cherry, blueberries and apples (for the white)

Jewish gatherings  blueberry (blue) and apples (white) 

Sue Tafler’s Noodle Kugel
 
(adapted from a Moosewood Cookbook recipe)
 
Beat together until smooth:
            3 eggs
            1-1/2 cups cottage cheese (I use non-fat)
            3/4 cup yogurt (I use low-fat plain; recipe calls for sour cream)
            8 oz. cream cheese (I use whipped/low-fat, or less than 8 oz., or omit)
            1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
            2 tsp. cinnamon
            1/4 cup honey
            Few dashes salt
 
8 oz. canned pineapple chunks or crushed pineapple, drained (recipe calls for sliced cooking apples or ripe peaches; raisins also work fine)
 
4 cups (raw) wide or medium egg noodles, boiled in water until just barely tender. Drain and butter.
 
Combine everything above, and spread into well-buttered or sprayed casserole. (I usually use 9 X 13 in. glass baking dish but can bake in disposable aluminum for bringing somewhere)
 
Top with mixture of:
            1 cup bread crumbs (I often use matzah meal left over from Pesach)
            2 tsp. cinnamon
            1/4 cup wheat germ
            1/4 cup brown sugar
 
Dot with butter.
 

Bake uncovered 35 minutes at 375 degrees. 

Rugelach (Bubbe Katz’s)
Jane Wolfman
 
Ingredients:
 
1 recipe cream cheese pastry (below)
1/2 lb. raisins
1/4 lb. walnuts
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup melted butter
 
1.        Prepare dough and chill. Preheat oven to 375.
2.        Chop raisins and walnuts and combine with sugar and cinnamon.
3.        Divide dough into 6 portions. Roll each portion into a circle (one at a time). Brush with melted butter               and sprinkle with part of mixture. Cut into eight wedges and roll from larger side. Bend to make a
           crescent. Put on buttered baking sheet. Butter tops with melted butter.
4.        Bake 15-30 minutes or until nicely browned.
 
                                               
Pastry
 
Ingredients:
 
1/2 lb. butter
1/2 lb. cream cheese
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 to 3 cups flour
 
1.        Combine butter and cream cheese and beat until creamy.
2.        Add eggs, one at a time, and beat.
3.        Add salt and beat.
4.        Remove bowl and add flour, gradually folding it in.
5.        When dough can be worked with hands, contrive adding flour until it can be rolled out. Add only
           enough to make workable dough.
6.        Shape into ball and chill overnight or at least 2 hours

7.        Use dough as necessary, rolling on a floured surface. 

Rugelach
Jeanne Clifford
 
 
Pastry:
 
8 oz. unsalted butter
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
 
Filling:
 
Generous 1/2 cup sugar
3 tsp. cinnamon
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup currants
1-1/4 cups finely chopped walnuts
 
Glaze:
 
1 egg yolk
1 tsp. water
Decorator’s sugar
 
Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the salt and then the flour. Form the resulting dough into a log, then divide the log into 3 equal sections. Form each section into a round, slightly flattened disk. Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
 
Preheat the oven to 350. Line cookie sheets with parchment. Mix together the sugar and cinnamon and set aside in a bowl. Roll out one of the disks of dough on a lightly floured surface int a 12 inch round. Brush the dough with 1 tablespoon of the melted butter, then sprinkle the dough with 1/3 of the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Sprinkle with 1/3 of the currants and walnuts. Use the rolling pin to lightly press the filling into the dough. With a long knife, cut the dough into 16 wedges. Starting from the outer edge, roll each wedge towards the point to make a little roll. Place the rolls on the cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Repeat with the remaining disks of dough and filling.
 
In a small bowl, mix together the egg yolk and water. Brush the glaze over each cookie with a small pastry brush, then sprinkle the cookies with the decorator’s sugar.
 

Bake for about 30 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown. Remove from the oven and immediately transfer the rugelach to rack to cool. Makes 48 rugelach. 

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