Peach Buttermilk Kugel

Preparation info
  • Yield: about

    10

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Jewish Holiday Cooking

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2008

  • About

With their gilded blush and sweet perfume, showy peaches dazzled the Talmudists. For decorating a sukkah, they deemed the fruit was fit to hang beside treasures like “hand-made carpets and tapestries … nuts, almonds … pomegranates and bunches of grapes, vines, oils, and fine meal.” (Babylonian Talmud: Bezah 30b)

Peaches—juicy, fresh fruit in the topping and tangy dried ones dispersed throughout—bring unexpected luxury to this sleek buttermilk custard noodle pudding. A slightly more