These Adorable Hungarian Sisters Are Master Chefs of Strudel

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4 жыл бұрын

Ilona and Erzsébet are two elderly sisters who have baked traditional Hungarian strudel all their lives. They learned the art of this delicate pastry from their mother during the Communist era. Today, the sisters continue to bake strudel for more than 500 people at a time-bickering and singing all the while. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
"Strudel Sisters" was directed by Peter Hegedus and Jaina Kalifa (www.jainakalifa.com). It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online series of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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@TheAtlantic 4 жыл бұрын

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@Violchen 4 жыл бұрын

That Moment when you are hungarian and can understand everything they are saying 😊

@lukasprochazkaprod 4 жыл бұрын

I am slovakian and I can also understand everything...hmmm

@melgm002 4 жыл бұрын

@@lukasprochazkaprod that's great

@irosonur6851 4 жыл бұрын

Lukas Prochazka Because of subtitles?

@melalepou 3 жыл бұрын

@@irosonur6851 tudhat magyarul?

@annaathome2995 3 жыл бұрын

@@melalepou no answer, maybe Lukas really did not understand Hungarian

@jkllfdsa 4 жыл бұрын

I'm Hungarian-American. This is precious. My grandma was just like these women...and she made retes (strudel) like this often.

@GeorgeMeszaros 4 жыл бұрын

The world needs more people like these ladies.

@YouTubeHUNger01 Жыл бұрын

The way those ladies sang made me cry, even though I'm a grown man 33 old almost 2 meters tall... We enjoy the modern life but as these people go away an old world dies along with them.

@nunabanuna 4 жыл бұрын

This made me feel so cozy and warm. What a couple of sweet old ladies.. and what a beautiful language!

@AB-gn8oh 4 жыл бұрын

I think they’re speaking Evenki. It’s the language of the native northern Russians. It’s also spoken in parts of China. I may be mistaken, but they definitely weren’t speaking Russian.

@hargasgabor2877 4 жыл бұрын

@@AB-gn8oh this is Hungarian.

@lilystonem6605 4 жыл бұрын

Nuna I'm from there too

@jkllfdsa 4 жыл бұрын

@@AB-gn8oh It's Hungarian. My grandparents spoke it.

@AB-gn8oh 4 жыл бұрын

Hargas Gabor, thank you.

@floridaman2567 4 жыл бұрын

So glad we can get things and most importantly beautiful people like this on record so all this beauty isn't just lost

@SpiralBreeze 4 жыл бұрын

These two ladies are too cute! No fancy equipment; tiny little stove and I bet you that strudel tastes like heaven.

@jkllfdsa 4 жыл бұрын

Even better -- like heaven & good sex @ the same time! 8~D

@zgabarici 4 жыл бұрын

Feels like I am watching my grandmother and grandaunt from across the street where I grew up

@franzsmith1561 4 жыл бұрын

I am as a hungarian-living in Chicago-can't wait to be in Hungary and to eat an amazing Rétes (strudel). They have sweet cherry strudel, sour cherry strudel, cheese strudel(cottage/farm cheese with vanilla and raisin), apricot strudel, apple strudel, poppyseed strudel, cherry with poppyseed strudel, cherry with cheese strudle etc. It taste like haven. Once I was dreaming and waking up middle of the night since I was craving for the taste of studel. Still I can not find here, in Chicago, a real/good studel like in Hungary.

@EarlyRiser-- 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I never thought I would see pastry strudel being made from scratch again by two women who remind me of my grandmothers! I am 65 and I would help my mom when she made the strudel dough. The room had to be warm and moist so once she started she had to keep moving stretching the dough along to the sides of the table and then filling and wrapping it. Stretching that thin dough took patience and love and Ilona and Erzsébet show it is an art form. I wonder if there are any chefs alive today that make their own strudel dough? We were poor but this is a rich person's dessert when made from the heart.

@davidcampbell1306 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of going to my grandma's on holidays when she would bake.. My grandmother and her family moved from Hungary in 1945. She could cook and bake like nobody's buisness. And when her and her daughters or relatives where there you couldn't understand a single word being spoken lol. Great memories

@Sjalabais 4 жыл бұрын

This is so recognizable! For every grand dictator, there are millions of people who live hard lifes. And they have to find a way to be happy, too.

@hunnybunny5474 3 жыл бұрын

They remind me of my own grandma who passed away some years ago. She used to cook like they do. I can still taste all the strudel, cookies, Lángos and cjirke paprikás she made from scratch. RIP Grandma. Szeretlek ❤❤❤

@squadwint 3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother was the same. I wish I had learned all her recipes, especially her gombóc, but I was young and cared more about eating than learning lol! If only I had known how fast everything can change. Hungarian food is truly cooked with so much love. Hope you are doing well!

@tomfaz4193 3 жыл бұрын

American Hungarian who appreciates this video and gives me insight into Hungarian people.

@silviodalessandro1708 4 жыл бұрын

Genuine people. Love the hand work no machine can make 🤗

@carrie9657 4 жыл бұрын

They are adorable!

@egoscsajszy 4 жыл бұрын

I love this so much. It was a breath of fresh air, even as a Hungarian, to listen to these adorable ladies. :)

@ytc257 4 ай бұрын

Do you know Jesus is a messenger of God

@lizd.8655 4 жыл бұрын

Who here wants these ladies as grandmas?!

@CikisHelyzet 4 жыл бұрын

Many of us did ☹️

@feederdiaries4862 3 жыл бұрын

My gma was like them, just the best. I hate that she’s gone.

@user-qb5pi4qf2m 4 ай бұрын

@@feederdiaries4862 Me too! I miss my beloved grandma every day.

@karenkirst-millspaugh4566 3 жыл бұрын

I watched my O’Mommy & her older sister bake this throughout my childhood & early adult life. What a treasure this was to watch. They make it look easy but that dough is stretched paper-thin & you cannot get a tear or hole in it or all the juices will leak out of the roll. Strudel for 500! AMAZING! My grandmother grew up in this same era. Most of these recipes we dough & fruit-poor man’s meals but what flavor! Thanks for capturing this! Made me smile & cry at the same time.

@0104jojo 4 жыл бұрын

The lives of these ladies under communist rule was cruel and hard. I choked up listening to them as I recalled the stories told to me by my Hungarian Grandma many years ago. I admire their spirit as I did my Grandma whom I loved dearly.

@ManuelBTC21 4 жыл бұрын

God bless, and blessed are all who are fortunate enough to taste their Strudel.

@niku_nst617 4 жыл бұрын

this makes me so proud❤🇭🇺💚

@biancahotca3244 3 жыл бұрын

Love my Hungarian neighbors. Although Romanian, my grandmother spoke Hungarian, as maybe many Romanians from Western Romania know Hungarian. I learned a few words and phrases from her in Hungarian, a proud people. We have many great recipes from them : )) I think this is the story of many Eastern Europeans. Life was hard under communism. Anything that we had of value, land, house was confiscated from people and given over to the government. That's why socialism/communism ruins nations, societies. Nanele astea imi aduc aminte de bunicele de la tara. Sunt la fel si in tara noastra-fara echivoc. : ))

@magyarmainer4692 2 жыл бұрын

I wanted to rewatch this because I discovered it in April 2020 while living in Brasov! I like your comments. Yep , socialism and communism ruins everything. I wish people could see …

@electricslider1091 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Hungarian American my grandfather came across on a boat to the U.S

@alienonion4636 4 жыл бұрын

And the secret ingredient is love.

@madhatter6963 Жыл бұрын

Two sweet, gentle souls.

@juanr681 4 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to text my sister & say how much I love her 😭😂

@shashikantpuri5565 4 жыл бұрын

Do it.

@faatimaevans1717 4 жыл бұрын

Do it!

@faatimaevans1717 4 жыл бұрын

Never allow a day to pass without telling the people you love, (I love you)

@afshanjabeen1 4 жыл бұрын

Just act on your thought immediately !!

@CikisHelyzet 4 жыл бұрын

Hurry Up!!

@jornalistarenatarosa4205 4 жыл бұрын

ahhhhhhhhh they are so cute! What a lovely report! We got to turn to the beauty in people more times. Reality is very harsh when we only see desgrace on the news. Thanks, Atlantic! Congrats from Brazil.

@masuganut2082 Жыл бұрын

My great grandparents emigrated from Hungary before the year 1900. So I love seeing anything to do with the people and culture. These ladies are lovely and I would snatch up a cookbook if they had it. ❤

@lindaruzics1693 Жыл бұрын

What beautiful sisters ❤. Köszönöm 🇭🇺 ❤

@fa8220 Жыл бұрын

These two ladies remind me my "nagymama". The simplicity of they are touching, so simple and so brave people. Today's people are very egoistic and foolish, our present world is full of futilities. I was able to understand the Hungarian speech of they, i got tear in my eyes.

@katiwolf2235 3 жыл бұрын

The sisters brought back wonderful, heart warming memories to me. I thank both of you so very much. Koszonom szepen, Hegyeshalmi lany voltam - soha nemfelejtem el a nemzetemet. :):):)

@hoboqueen4453 7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of my Grandma. She and my mom and aunts were also world class bakers. Their apple strudel was beyond compare.

@danielbakergill 4 жыл бұрын

She sacrificed her life for family. She has a knot in her chest she must swallow-- It's easy to imagine the aged as zen, and above it all. But you never really outgrow tragedy.

@CikisHelyzet 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this was very moving 😥

@biancahotca3244 3 жыл бұрын

Poftim?

@muffinmule5997 4 жыл бұрын

this video took me back to my guilds chef training.We had an Austrian chef who taught us this..he told us the other crap as he put it was a jalousie a french version.We had a ball making it and I still do it this way

@NYSESTRA Жыл бұрын

OMG. I admire and adore these two lovely ladies.

@gyongya 2 жыл бұрын

This reminds me so much of my grandmother. She's very old now, but she still bakes and cooks on her small table in her kitchen. Her kitchen even looks similar. She also always sings. I love this so much

@rosemaryraplar8 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to get out my Hungarian mother's recipe book and make this too! 😋

@pauloamw Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful story and that technique is above any michelin restaurant.

@silverlve70 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! These two ladies are amazing.

@vanessaward6025 Жыл бұрын

I know she did too. Yes, Ma'am. My grandmother would sing every once in a while when she cooked too. My mother as well. Thank you so much for sharing your reciepe. My mother and grandmother made a smaller version of this. Ohhh, and the roll cake. I remember my grandmother was called zsazsu is in the kitchen or zsuzsa. My grandmother would giggle and smile.

@naamisnaam 2 жыл бұрын

This is so wholesome! I hope they are well and healthy today!

@sweetbaby471 3 жыл бұрын

How wonderful ladies with a hard life and they make many people happy with there cooking. Blessings.

@sant_vauls 4 жыл бұрын

so no one's gonna say how much they wanna taste their strudels?

@franzsmith1561 4 жыл бұрын

I am as a hungarian-living in Chicago-can't wait to be in Hungary and to eat an amazing strudel. They have cherry, cheese(cottage/farmcheese with vanilla and raisin), apple, poppyseed, cherry and poppyseed, cherry and cheese etc

@GodlyEddy 4 жыл бұрын

Wholesome and beautiful, I love it.

@justhereforthemusic8504 3 жыл бұрын

So beautiful Thank you for sharing.

@proudlakerfan 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful sisters! You can tell the reverence they have for their mother. I just wish that they also have the subtitles for the song(s) they're singing.

@jkllfdsa 4 жыл бұрын

Ya. Same here.

@CikisHelyzet 4 жыл бұрын

For Hungarians... only the mother figure matters. Most ere selfless in the most difficult of times.

@jkllfdsa 4 жыл бұрын

@@CikisHelyzet True! My grandmother was! She was from Alsóőr [aka Unterwart], now in Burgenland, Austria. Unterwart is one of only two majority ethnic Hungarian towns in Austria.

@brigitalarsen7335 4 жыл бұрын

Dhumma Vati What is the other Hungarian town in Austria, please?

@funch357 4 жыл бұрын

@@brigitalarsen7335 Not sure. I will email a cousin over there & ask.

@vanessaward6025 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing back woundrrful memories.

@chrismulholland7530 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this and the memories of my own Hungarian grandparents and many other relatives. I still bake fro.m her recipes and taught my own daughters and granddaughters. Much love from USA

@lj3353 4 жыл бұрын

They reminds me of my grandma ♥️

@Robloxeli 2 жыл бұрын

I loved your story and watching you two cook. God bless you both

@naomidalton4158 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. These two Sisters are so loveable. Iam longing foe my own late Sisters at this moment.

@agadirallo7919 Жыл бұрын

ابتسامتهم عفوية ومشرقة، الله يعطيكم الصحة والعافية.

@vanessaward6025 Жыл бұрын

Sang beautiful indeed. Yes, Ma'am. Beautiful.

@deda118 2 жыл бұрын

Takes you back in time to a different world. Sad and beautiful at once.

@jessicaprintke4973 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful people

@faatimaevans1717 4 жыл бұрын

Such a Lovely Story.

@zita7445 3 жыл бұрын

Csodalatos! Ilyenkor vagyok buszke hogy Magyar vagyok!

@mercurious6699 4 жыл бұрын

wonderful, thank you!

@lindastone6868 Жыл бұрын

I was told it should be thin enough to read a love letter through!

@Navygrl58 2 жыл бұрын

That was just wonderful! God bless them!

@cococho2767 2 жыл бұрын

my goodnes they are adoooorable

@arleneportsmouth1263 Жыл бұрын

The sisters are so sweet! I wish I had my sister around to bake with. 🥰

@andyhorvath6630 3 жыл бұрын

I used to help my grandmother (in Hungary) to make rétes when I was a kid, all the varieties. Nagymama was a great cook, I think my mother would die for a piece of her Császár rétes ... I try to make it myself now and again and though it’s good and tasty, it gets nowhere near ...

@leschierkerekes3012 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful ladies

@Nono-hk3is 4 жыл бұрын

Sweet and beautiful and makes my heart ache.

@enemyofmyenemy6713 Жыл бұрын

Couple of Angels

@hundo9314 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great story. How loving the sister's are.

@docpramod 3 жыл бұрын

How sweet

@ruthrosa2485 4 жыл бұрын

They are lovely!

@teddyboy252 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful Hungarian

@let-it-flow Ай бұрын

İ came here to wathc the recepie. However wathcing these old ladies İ ended up thinking that aging is very natural and actually beautiful thing. There is a different aura around them: gentle, calm, present, full with life experience. İt reminded me my own gradmother and all the love i received from her. She would cook for us delicious cakes which no one can recreate.

@gocmenkz8863 4 жыл бұрын

Bayıldım kardeşlere,umarım hayattadırlar.Ellerine sağlık.

@AnnaMay 4 жыл бұрын

this was endearing to watch

@boblydecker5951 7 ай бұрын

Túrós Rétes is the food of the Gods!!! Let’s not forget Mákos Rétes either. Absolutely Delicious!!!

@lovelightblessings6245 3 жыл бұрын

God Blessings to these amazing Teacher

@coshgirlify 3 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely beautiful I Love this traditional style

@jfg1104 3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother was born in Hungary (Budapest), you can see how simple life was over there and how women didn't care about their appearances because they were too busy taking care of their families!

@emman5008 2 жыл бұрын

Life is not like this in Budapest now. Neither was it like this ever, really. These traditions mostly stayed in villages or smaller towns sadly..But of course you can see the old times in Budapest too🤗

@christopherdoolan925 4 жыл бұрын

And they can sing.

@christinetaschner3400 3 ай бұрын

einfach nur gut, danke euch beiden, langes leben und gesundheit liebe grüße aus wien❤❤👍👍😘😘

@eddieramirez5161 2 жыл бұрын

sweet sisters.

@dianelindemann-msa690 Жыл бұрын

Love them ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@subliminals5825 3 жыл бұрын

♡^^ so cute

@judykoller147 8 ай бұрын

My parents were from Budapest they came to the USA in 1957

@diamonddetails9445 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍👍👍👍😎

@suzystone244 4 жыл бұрын

A Happy Kitchen's Ingredients: Two Stuedel Sisters❤❤🤗🤗

@toxichammertoe8696 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!👍

@veronikahellsnova7510 Жыл бұрын

Wow so beautiful this two sister together making dessert .my mother is hungarian and they speak like my mom .from where are they coming from in hungary?

@nbfoodsecretsm8 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video I like your all video

@yongleong9596 3 жыл бұрын

When l first made the pastry skin they broke easily when l stretched them over the table. Until an experience baker told me my dough need to be soak in oil for about 30 minutes before you stretch it. That solved the problem , it stretches beautifully thereafter. Apple strudel with ice cream is heavenly.

@bluesage1528 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful women. Reminded me our Ukrainian babushkas, with warm loving hearts, simple cozy homes and delicious food ❣❣❣

@chachasvlog2621 4 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@evatoroknefodor3468 Жыл бұрын

Nagyon édes két néni ok meg tudják mit jelent ha valaki szegény ! A nagymamám volt ilyen kedves úgy tudott sütni , főzni hogy csodálattal néztem gyermekként ! Sokat tanultam tőle ! A kedvencem a Meggyes mákos rétes ! Isten áldja a hölgyeket !

@huanitotakito6944 2 жыл бұрын

De dragak!!!!!

@reginabillotti 2 ай бұрын

Wish the captions translated the songs they are singing, as well

@BartesCooking 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful !!! Bravo!!! Yummy!!!

@annaathome2995 3 жыл бұрын

I wish that they would slow down or actually demonstrated closer step by step instructions IE from the Crumbs of dough to the filled already ,perfect to be rolled & bakes Who ever produced that film,Skipped through many steps for the viewers. Their very interesting childhood & family history could have been earlier or separate as Preface to the strudel making steps