Make a dough of two cups of flour, a pinch of salt and a little lukewarm water; do not make it too stiff, but smooth.  Slap the dough back and forth.  Do this repeatedly for about fifteen minutes.  Now put the dough in a warm, covered bowl and set it in a warm, place for half an hour.  In the meantime stem and pit two quarts of sour cherries.  Grate into them some stale bread (about a plateful); also the peel of half a lemon, and mix.  Add one cup of sugar, some ground cinnamon and about four ounces of pounded sweet almonds, mix all thoroughly.  Roll out the dough as thin as possible, lay aside the rolling-pin and pull, or rather stretch the dough as thin as tissue paper.  In doing this you will have to walk all around the table, for when well stretched it will cover more than the size of an ordinary table.  Pull off all of the thick edge, for it must be very thin to be good (save the pieces for another strudel).  Pour a little melted goose-oil or butter over this, and sprinkle the bread, sugar, almonds, cherries, etc., over it; roll the strudel together into a long roll.  Have ready a long baking-pan well greased with either butter or goose-fat; fold the strudel into the shape of a pretzel.  Butter or grease top also and bake a light brown; baste often while baking.  Eat warm.

MANDEL (ALMOND) STRUDEL

Prepare the dough as for Apple Strudel No. 2.  Blanch one-half pound of almonds and grind, when dried beat the yolks of four eggs light with one-quarter pound of granulated sugar, add the grated peel of one lemon and mix in the almonds.  Spread over the dough with plenty of oil, butter or fat and roll.  Bake; baste very often.

CABBAGE STRUDEL

Heat one-half cup of goose-fat, add one medium-sized cabbage and let it simmer until done, stirring constantly to keep from burning.  While cooling prepare strudel dough, fill with cabbage and one cup of raisins and currants mixed, two cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of chopped almonds and one teaspoon cinnamon, roll and put little pieces of grease on top; bake in hot oven and baste frequently.  The pans in which the strudel is baked must be greased generously.  Serve this strudel hot.  This strudel may be made for a milk meal by substituting butter for fat.

QUARK STRUDEL (DUTCH CHEESE)

Make a strudel or roley-poley dough and let it rest until you have prepared the cheese.  Take half a pound of cheese, rub it through a coarse sieve or colander, add salt, the yolks of two eggs and one whole egg, sweeten to taste.  Add the grated peel of one lemon, two ounces of sweet almonds, and about four bitter ones, blanched and pounded, four ounces of sultana raisins and a little citron chopped fine.  Now roll out as thin as possible, spread in the cheese, roll and bake, basting with sweet cream.