DH's paternal Grandmother lived in town so the making of potica was a family event. There was so much work involved, the women would make enough for everyone to have several rolls. DH's mom (my DMIL) ran her own little country store out in the woods in the middle of "nowhere" so she never had time for baking. Her sisters were the ones who lived in town and would make potica and always saved out a few rolls for Ma. My DSisIL and one of the cousins were the women in our generation who were the bakers. They both lived in town and baking potica was always a group event. My directions never included hand pulling the dough and the Aunties never mentioned it. Could be that they used a sheet because back in the old country the families lived so far apart that the job had to be alone and it's much easier using a sheet. Who knows. I do know that DH treats potica as if it were regular bread and makes ham sandwiches out of it!!!!! All that wonderful brown sugar and walnuts, etc. and he butters a slice and put HAM on top -- LOLOL! For MOI, it's dessert but then I didn't grow up with it :-). Oh -- I do remember DH's paternal grandma saying that only "GERMANS" (saying it as if it were a curse word) would call it strudel -- it is REALLY potica -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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