STRUDEL

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Yesterday evening I took my first cooking class at The Kitchen Shoppe in Carlisle. This is an excellent store for kitchen supplies and offers cooking classes year round. This year, the store will be celebrating 38 years! in business.

I took the Strudel Workshop. I am always looking for something new and tasty to bake for breakfast, so I decided a strudel might be good.

There were about 16 people in the class and many of them had taken classes at the Shoppe before last night. My table of 4 women included a caterer and a woman who had a cookie business; the latter drove in from Pittsburgh for this particular class.

This class, as noted in the catalog was back “by popular demand”. The people in the class wanted to learn how to make the dough. The “trick” to a great strudel is in the dough. We were divided into groups of 4 and what we had to do is make a ball of dough, then pound it and roll it and stretch it. This ball of dough to my amazement stretched out the length and width of our table. I couldn’t believe it. Then our group made this delicious apple filling. The other groups made cheese and cherry strudels. I would say if I had to make this alone from start to finish, it would take the better part of a day.

The best part was when we got to sample our work. It was delicious. It was an enjoyable evening and I can't wait to take my next class. Of course, I hope to make a strudel as well.