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Food Network Kitchen | 2014-12-16
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When Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery opened on New York City's Lower East Side, you could get a fat, potato-filled knish for three cents. That was in 1910. Today, you'll have to fork over $3.50, but not much else has changed. The Shimmel family (now spelled Schimmel) still runs the place, six generations after Romanian immigrant Yonah Shimmel started peddling his wife's knishes from a cart in Coney Island. Lots of copycats have followed, but co-owner Ellen Anistratov insists Shimmel's is the true knish: mashed potato in a thin dough; baked, not fried; round, not square. To this day, the family keeps the recipe a secret, but in honor of the shop's 100th birthday, Food Network Kitchens created this version.
