The rich sauce was the very best part of these wonderful strudels.
Grandma's Secret Trick
These pastries freeze nicely once they are baked, making them a handy snack or appetizer, or a quick lunch. Grandma would prepare a batch, let them cool on the baking sheets, then place the sheets in the freezer to quick-freeze the pastries. Once they were frozen, she packed them into resealable plastic bags. For the best texture, she used them within three months.
I remember these sandwiches best from the week each summer that all the cousins went to Grandma’s.
The tangy Catalina salad dressing was Grandma’s secret ingredient in this beef skillet dinner.
We asked Grandma if she had to cook all day to make her beef-and-vegetable pie. She just smiled.