Peach-Butter Milk Kugel

Preparation info
  • Yield: About

    10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Gefilte Variations

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2000

  • About

With their gilded blush and sweet perfume, showy peaches dazzled the Talmudists. For decorating a sukkah, they deemed the sumptuous 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....” (Bez. :157)

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 indu