An apricot hamentash ($1.50) was sweet, even before I bit into the filling; it's on the flat side, and just a little smaller than I'd like. Mom notes that Beldotti's loaves of corn bread (shown above; $3.30) — actually a rye, better with caraway seeds than without — also seem a little smaller lately, too. Good sourness, though.
On later occasions: A moist "Hungarian roll" ($7.50), topped with slivered almonds, was filled with almond paste and some crushed walnuts; a poppyseed version was on offer, too. A Slovak "kolach," Mom tells me, might more properly be filled with crushed nuts alone.
A buttery but extremely light russenzopf (shown below; $7.50), a German pastry prepared only during the winter holidays, I gather, was veined with delicate traceries of hazelnut.
Beldotti Bakery
605 Newfield Ave., Stamford, Connecticut
(in the Newfield Green Shopping Center)
203-348-9029
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