Apple “Vertuta” Pastry

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large vertutas
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

By Maria Kalenska

Published 2026

  • About

Larisa is a ceramics artist who became well-known in the city during the Covid pandemic when she started creating personalized mugs with witty, wise, and inspiring inscriptions. We spent a beautiful day with Larisa in her studio, known as her “laboratory of beauty,” recreating a recipe from her grandmother, which was lost when Larisa was four. When you bake this pastry, a pool of sugar and butter will inevitably escape from underneath the p