“My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.” — X user @NickyFrank30
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Magda Goebbels’s Strudel Recipe
Use strong white flour for a superior product.
Mix lukewarm water, oil, salt, and vinegar. Nothing breaks down bonds within gluten like acid. In the final product, the sourness will be undetectable.
Crack in an egg. You can’t make a tasty strudel without breaking some eggs.
Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth.
Set the dough out of sight and out of mind.