Name: Rich Noodle Kugel Baked with Fresh Plums and Nectarines
Yield: Yield: About 10 servings
Ingredients: 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus additional butter or oil for greasing the pan; 1–1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon, according to taste; 1 cup (8 ounces) cottage cheese; 8 ounces cream cheese, softened and cut into bits; ½ cup pure maple syrup or granulated white sugar; 8 ounces medium flat egg noodles (not the twisted spiral kind, which won’t absorb as much of the liquids and flavoring); Salt; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; ¼ cup sour cream; 2 cups milk; 3 large eggs; 5–7 tablespoons light brown sugar, preferably the granulated variety; About 2 pounds plums and nectarines, unpeeled (unless the skins are very thick or damaged) and cut into quarters or, if large, into eighths

Preparation info

Yield: About
10
servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Gefilte Variations

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2000

About

Nabokov, in his brilliant literary study Nikolai Gogol, was describing the Russian notion of poshlust, but he could just as easily have been writing about the Yiddish ongepotchkeh. Often translated as “overdone,” “gaudy,” or “excessively fussy” (possibly from potchkeh, “to fuss with”), ongepotchkeh is what happens when those desperately seeking elegance collide with their own innate bad taste.

My all-time favorite Yiddish word—just pronouncing it f