Comments on: Cabbage Strudel and Paprika Ice Cream

By: Niki from Budapest

Niki from Budapest — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:27:37 +0000

I was very happy to see these Hungarian desserts in a non-Hungarian blog. We, Hungarians, are great fans of strudels. We eat any kind: sweet and salty as well: cottage-cheese, cherry, poppy-seed, cabbage, potato. The interesting thing about cabbage strudels is that they divide us into two groups: people who eat them with black pepper sprinkled on top and people who eat them with caster sugar on top… And there are some strange people (like myself) who prefer to have both peppers and caster sugar on the same cabbage strudel :-) Try the recipe – it is really something unique…

By: Ray Shanrock

Ray Shanrock — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:32:42 +0000

marie – don’t understand awaiting moderation?

By: Ray Shanrock

Ray Shanrock — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:23:28 +0000

We have a theme based dinner group and the entre couple wanted a Hungarian motiff. Since we had desert I looked online for an option. This was in 2007, and I came across your strudel and paprika ice cream. Made them both and they were a hit. We are back at it again and I had lost the recipe and found it again. Doing them again in two days. Thanx again…

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:06:29 +0000

Marie – Oh, that’s weird. If it’s hard for you to tell, maybe stir in the cinnamon at the end? Also, higher heat might help. I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:25:07 +0000

I made this yesterday. With the cabbage being brown from the cinnamon, how do you tell if it is carmelizing? I cooked it and cooked it (over half an hour on med heat) and it never really looked any different (just reduced a little), then finally gave up because I needed to get it in the oven. The final product was kinda gross.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:34:32 +0000

I just came across this entry and had to comment! My great-grandmother was from Hungary, and my father joked that on Saturday nights, when she babysat my father and aunt and uncle, she would make some of her more unusual Hungarian dishes — like cabbage strudel! I recently found an old box of her recipes, but sadly this one isn’t in there. I’ll have to bookmark this one instead!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:06:53 +0000

When the Nora Ephron article was first published, my mother clipped it from the paper and showed it to me, saying we just send her my grandmother’s recipe.

So, Nora, if you ever come across this, here it is!

By: Reba Garrett

Reba Garrett — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:01:35 +0000

I also was reading Nora Ephron’s book and her mentioning cabbage streudel. Was so glad to find your recipe on the web. Plan to try it at Thanksgiving dinner with pork loin.

By: Sabine

Sabine — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:25:13 +0000

Ah! Thank you for the cabbage strudel recipe! I ate and fell in love with this dessert while living in Hungary, but stupidly forgot to ask anyone over there for a recipe.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:06:41 +0000

Wow! I was just reading about the loss of cabbage streudel in Nora Ephron’s book “I Feel Bad About My Neck and other thoughts on being a woman” and decided to google out a recipe. Shazam, here it is. I can’t wait to try it. I really do appreciate the appetizing picture too.