Look up passover Kugel. It would be close.

Not everyone adds that much butter and bacon, or any at all. Always varies from family to family..

How do you know the dough wasn't misbehaving??? :)

How did it go?

It was every Friday for us and I have some cooking in the oven right now.

Butter not enough...needed bacon.

Labas...your spelling of Kugelu is not the correct spelling....Kugelis is the correct spelling and pronunciation for potato pudding...your ousookies are Ausuki for the pastry/cookies [rabbit ears]...and your Kulduno is not the correct spelling...correct is Koldūnai which are meat dumplings...Many Americans talk slang Lithuanian which is not correct in the authentic Lithuanian language....

Hey, I know I'm answering 2 years later, but I hope it still helps. :) I'm sure you mean "koldūnai" (dumplings), "kugelis" and "ausukės" (west highland dialect) or "ausytės" (in standart lithuanian; I'm pretty sure your gran was from west highlands of Lithuania if she called them like that :D Love it!) You can easy google the first two recipes online. Ausytės, on the other hand, are not so popular nowdays but my gran was also making these when I was a kid. For the dough you need: 0,5 l of whey or buttermilk, 2 eggs, 0,5 glass of sugar, 50 g butter or margarine, 0,5 teaspoon baking powder or soda, flour as much as it needs to make dough that could be rolled our evenly. Knead the dough well, roll it out, cut into diamond (5-7 cm long) shape and then make 1-2 cm cut in the middle of the diamond. Use this cut to put one corner of the diamond through it and to the other side (to make some kind of knot (I hope you can remember how ausytės should look like, cause it's hard to explain :D) Then fry both sides of your ausytės in oil. Decorate with some powdered sugar or cinamon (or both). Skanaus!

Tiesa

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@@braddock962 Jeigu jus manot, kad jos kugelis geras, tada Skanaus. Tikras kugelio megejas tokios kugelio parodijos nevalgys

Of course she is. She's gorgeous and can cook. ;)

Bianca Hotca I not imagine how she managed spoil so good dish.., I'm Lithuania and I never seen such horror It very far from original dish

@@Maskedman46 There are no butter in the original kugelis only grease from the pork. Butter is for bandos (potatoes pancakes baked on cabbage leaves). You strain your potatoes for cepelinai and do not want to strain them for kugelis because then it will be hard and dry. Onions should be sauted with the bacon not grated with the potatoes. No eggs or milk in the kugelis! Eggs are for žemaičių blynai (samogitian pancakes) and milk... well it would be terrible combination with meat. My mom's family is from Highland and father's family from Samogitia soooo I would say I do know how kugelis is made all around the Lithuania. :)

@@kristinyt Hot milk is used not for taste but for the dough to stay white, otherwise it gets dark. And it IS used all around LT.

@@patricijasakalauskiene2514 At least it's not used anywhere I know. :) As I mentioned before I've never heard of that in Highland or in Samogitia. Maybe it's very regional and only popular in few tiny towns or smth. (?) And potatoes don't get dark if you cook them asap. If you leave potatoes for 30 min or longer then they get dark. Also they don't get dark if you put some lemon juice or citric acid in it. Milk does not contain acid as far as I know.

@@kristinyt It's a very old recipe used both in Highland (Kupiškis, Zarasai, Anykščiai, Molėtai districts) and Dzūkija (e.g. Alytus, Švenčionys) sorry, forgot how it is in EN). This is were I am family members come from. Not sure about other parts of Lithuania, but I guess milk is used there as well. Actually, our grandmothers used neither lemon juice, nor citric acid tablets, this is the "invention" of nowadays :) However, milk should be boiling indeed in order to make its job done. Earlier they used to grate potatoes by hand so it used to take long time before the potatoes were put into the furnace for some hours. Anyway, I adore this dish, unlike my foreign husband who does not understand how we can eat such greasy food :)

Hedy Noble Just please don't follow her instructions 😬

I have the conically shaped one I picked up at a flea market. One of the best items I ever bought. I grate 5 obs of potatoes in 10 minutes. The potatoes just came out of the garden and had an incredible texture to them.

Thank you!!