[Sca-cooks] OT OOP Russian cake question
Daniel Myers
edoard at medievalcookery.com
Thu Dec 20 20:33:55 PST 2007
On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
> I have a student this year who is Russian - her family has only
> been in the
> US for a year - and her mother sent her classroom staff a
> wonderful cake for
> Christmas. Her mother does not speak much English and we have no
> idea what
> this is, but it's yummy!
>
> It is many layers (at least 10) of very thin pastry of some sort
> alternating
> with a cream sort of filling. The pastry looks sort of like
> graham crackers
> and is about the same thickness, but is not as sweet and is much
> softer and
> moister. I do think there are crushed graham crackers or
> something similar
> on top. The filling looks more like vanilla pudding than
> anything, but I was
> getting a slightly tangy taste that makes me think it might either be
> sour-cream based or have a small amount of lemon or something in
> it. No blatantly
> obvious spicing.
>
> Anyone have any idea what this might be, or better yet a recipe?
Sounds like a dobosh torte.
Google yields up a lot of links. The first one I checked had a recipe.
http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/doboshto.htm
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299. Take Auence, an late hem boyle, than take it owt an let it kele,
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bakon y-boylyd in a-nother dysshe. [The Boke of Swyllyng]
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