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Quark Strudel

4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g quark or dry white cheese
• 100 g breadcrumbs (grated)
• 20 g beef fat
• parsley (finely chopped) (a little)
• 30 g butter
• 2 pieces eggs (whole)
• 1 cup sour cream
• strudel dough (as needed)
• salt (a little)
• caraway seeds or chives (a little)
• lard (for the casserole) (a little)

Instructions

1. Grate the quark or dry white cheese and mix with breadcrumbs lightly browned in beef fat with finely chopped parsley.
2. Beat the butter with the whole eggs and sour cream, spread this mixture over the rolled-out strudel dough, sprinkle the white cheese on top, along with a little salt and caraway seeds or chives.
3. Roll up the strudel as instructed and bake it in a casserole dish greased with lard.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.