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The blitz of the blintzes yields mixed results.

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Make Your Next Stop "One Stop"

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

M

y first experience with a
For one, a message on the
blintz occurred about Golden brand's packaging brags
eight years ago shortly to customers that its blintzes
after I began dating Joel, have fully 40 percent more fill-
the man I am lucky enough to call ing than other brands. Mean-
my husband.
while, both taste-tested brands
Wanting to impress me, he took weighed the same.
me to a local deli and ordered
Another point of contention
blintzes for us to share. As we was the "raisin" part of the ap-
waited for the food to be delivered ple-raisin filling. Tasters were
to the table, he described in detail lucky to find even one raisin in
the soft, sweet cheese and his each blintz.
childhood memories associated
with the Jewish delicacy.
He built up such anticipation
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of a wild adventure in dining that
I could hardly contain myself. My
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excitement, along with a Pavlov-
ian salivary reaction, began to
grow with each passing moment.
Golden Apple Blintzes:
`They're crepes," I hooted as the
"Apple filling inside is just like
plate of cheese-filled blankets cov- being at the cider mill. The crust
ered in applesauce arrived for our is a little doughy."
consumption. "Cheese crepes!"
— Gayle Baldi
To this day, I am surprised he
"Good, like apples in a warm
stayed with me. How naive could apple pie. I liked it!"
I have been? Saying blintzes are
— Susie Sherman
crepes is like saying apples are
pommes, as the French say.
Since that time, I have become
positively spoiled. My mother-in-
law, the subject of her children's
cruel criticism for a handful of
cooking fiascos in their youth,
makes the world's best blintzes. I
Golden Cherry Blintzes:
can no longer eat the stiffrestau-
"Not very good. Cherry filling
rant versions with which my hus- tastes metallic."
band first plied my taste buds.
— Jill Davidson Sklar
In fact, following an arduous
"Gluey, clammy, pretty diffi-
Yom Kippur fast or after a par- cult to swallow."
ticularly unpleasant bris, nothing
— Julie Edgar
tastes better or is more comfort-
ing than a plateful of her warm
blintzes, smothered in blueberry
filling and topped with a dollop of
sour cream.
So one can image how difficult
it was for me to prepare and serve
Wilton Foods Cherry
the manufactured variety found Blintzes:
in grocers' freezer cases. How
"Filling is very thick, and
could these compare to Harriet crepe is a bit cardboardy."
Sklar's creations?
— Lynne Konstantin
We put Golden's brand up
"Loved the filling, very tasty.
against Wilton Foods' offerings in Liked the crispiness on the out-
the apple raisin and cherry fla- side."
vors.
— Nancy Cameron
All of the blintzes had between
80 and 90 calories, 2 or 3 grams of
fat, 16 to 18 grams of carbohy-
drates and 120 to 145 milligrams
RAT
of sodium. All are under the su-
pervision of the Union of Ortho-
dox Jewish Congregations of
Wilton Foods Apple Raisin
America's kashrus division (OU) Blintzes:
and are pareve.
"Crispy shell surrounding
They were found in the freezer good filling. Light. Forks up."
section of One Stop Kosher. Gold-
— Julie Edgar
en's brand cost $2.79 per box while
Wilton Foods' were $2.39.
"Good light apple flavor but
filling is lacking somewhat in
The Rating:
raisins. Tasty crepe shell. Forks
The one major finding of all of up."
the tasters was that packaging
— Cathy Ciccone [I_1
can be deceptive.

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