We have an old family recipe for what we call kuchen. Everyone in my family loves it but everyone who marries-in is skeptical about it at first. It's a rolled pastry with nuts or poppyseed filling in it. We eat it for breakfast (or any time of day) but it is great with coffee.
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Never heard of it! But it sounds delicious! Is it a regional thing?
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@MrsBrewer: my family was from the midwest so, maybe? No one in any state I have ever lived in on the east coast had heard of it!
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Is it like the polish potica?
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@mediagirl: Hmm! I live in the midwest, and I've never heard of it either!
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@MrsBrewer, @t.h.o.u. This is a picture of what ours looks like. A Google search says it is a German nut strudel. Makes sense because my Grandmother's ancestry is German. So maybe it's a German thing and not a midwest thing.
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My husbands family makes it. I'm positive it's a German dish. I have never tried ito but my husband loves it. I'm not big on pastry in general.
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@mediagirl: It kind of looks like a really fancy coffee cake/pastry! yum!! Let me know when you have it next, and I'll invite myself over
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As a German I can tell you that kuchen is the German word for cake. We see these types of cakes/pastries often here.
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We often have kuchen at church potlucks, along with other German dishes! Gotta love those German Lutherans!
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Yes, Kuchen = cake, but we always had more like a crumb cake with fruit as a Kuchen. What you describe sounds more strudel like to me. But regardless of what you call it, it sounds yummy.
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@MamaG: Yes! Ours was more of a crumb cake, too... apple, cherry. Kuchen is a big tradition on my mother's (German) side.
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My Hungarian family eats something that looks just like that, with poppyseed filling, but calls it something else. I can't think of the name right now.
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