Comments on: Guess That Pastry – 2009 – Warmup

By: Rudi

Rudi — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:24:51 +0000

+1 on “Biskuitroulade” and apricot jam filling. But then I’m from Vienna. Same country as Alpbach, but a few valleys from there, so completely different culture..

By: trifels

trifels — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:29:42 +0000

Lucky you are – you have readers in Austria – This is a simple “Biskuitroulade”. Besides the Böglerhof is a quite nice Hotel in Alpbach…

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:39:31 +0000

Hello,

if it was filled with apricot jam, it is called “Marillenroulade”.

Happy to see you liked my country and all its “strange” cultural habits…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:58:25 +0000

Sorry, but I never consumed one while recently in France and didn’t catch the cool French name.

By: Frank R

Frank R — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:36:37 +0000

Try some pitiza. Seen it spelled a few different ways. My relatives used to make it, though I haven’t had any for too long. Sweet, dense bread with cinnamon, finely minced nuts, raisins and whatever else someone wants to throw in it. Stretch the dough, pack it up with goodies, roll it and then they wet it and rolled in pastry dough so the outside was all crispy and flaky. When my great-grandmother used to make it I’d never even get a taste…always disappeared sometime between my dad walking in the door and the rest of us making our way into her house. Yep, ol’ pa was a pitiza junkie…wondered why he always had to go check on the garage when Gram was baking the good stuff.

Lou, my Gram’s house was in downtown Crested Butte…You know the house with the garage covered in license plates? That was hers…she is the one who collected and put all the plates up. Guess it is a pricey B&B now.