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Strudel in a dish

Strudel

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A strudel is usually a sweet baked dessert of fruit wrapped in thin pastry in a swirl shape. The dish is generally served warm, and may be made with many types of  filling such cherries, plums or raisins and even vegetables, with apple strudel being best-known and most popular.  The word strudel means whirlpool or eddy in the German language, and so describes the shape of  the vortex of pastry that draws in the appreciative eater. The dish originated in Austria but was widely served throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the large central and eastern European multi-ethnic and multinational state which was dissolved at the end of the First World War in 1918 leaving Austria and other countries as small independent nations.