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Sweet Cheese Strudel

4 servings

Ingredients

• 30 g butter
• 2 pieces eggs (whole)
• 1 cup sweet cream
• 200 g white cheese (not too firm)
• strudel dough (as needed)
• sugar (to taste)
• raisins and currants (a little)
• milk (for baking) (a little)
• butter (for brushing) (a little)

Instructions

1. Cream butter, whole eggs, and sweet cream well, then add the not-too-firm white cheese.
2. Once everything is well mixed, spread the strudel dough with the mixture, sprinkle with sugar, raisins, and currants, and place the rolled strudel in a buttered casserole dish.
3. Pour in a little milk for baking, brush the top of the strudel with butter, and bake until light brown.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.