Shlishkes

Shlishkes (the plural form is standard) is a dish of potato-based small dumplings (called krumplinudli or nokedli in Hungarian) popular in Hungarian cooking and often found in the Jewish cooking of Jews in the Ashkenazi community. It is formed from a soft dough of cooked mashed potatoes, egg, flour and water; the dumplings are boiled and rolled in sugar and hot buttered caramelized breadcrumbs (streusel). [cite news|first=Joan|last=Nathan|title=From Hungary, for Hanukkah, From Long Ago|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/dining/13hanu.html|date=2006-12-13 ]

When cooking Plum Dumplings called [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Silvash_Gombotz Gombotzen] then the leftover batter is formed into small (finger-sized) breaded rolls, called krumplinudli.

ee also

*Gnocchi

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