I JUST HAD A THOUGHT.

I'm probably the last one to think this up, but . . . does anyone else wonder ( Spoilery for SPN 4.16, 4.17, 4.18 )

I'm just saying . . . it kind of makes sense.

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When I was a kid, my Hungarian great-grandmother used to make something we called "Window Cake". The layer of sweet dough on the bottom of the sheet pan included sour cream, and then she slathered a layer of raspberry or apricot jam over the whole thing. Then she'd cut strips of the dough and weave them into a latticework over the top before popping it in the oven. The result did look very much like a stained-glass window.

Anybody ever heard of this?

Mom lost the recipe ( lucifrix, I bet you can guess why! ) and I can't find an equivalent online. There's a bunch of recipes for window cakes of all sorts, but none of them use sour cream in the dough. Most of them seem like regular cakes with jam on top.

Who knows . . . maybe Gran altered a recipe to suit. She once made us pancakes and grated those weird, round white squash into them -- which actually tasted a lot better than you might otherwise think.

Any ideas? Anyone have Hungarian relatives who might know what I'm talking about?