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Gerard’s Speciality Foods in Lake Cowichan is a family operation that makes and sells one item— strudel. Just don’t confuse its frozen meat strudels with a sausage roll says Gerard’s wife Glenda Berg, that’s puff pastry with a beef, chicken or salmon filling. Sixty years ago while Gerard trained to become a European master pastry chef in the Netherlands he came up with the idea of a sausage roll with a strudel pastry. He started to make the strudel with special ingredients to make it less greasy than a normal puff pastry and then filled it with meat. In June of 2012 Gerard and his family started Gerard’s Speciality Foods in Lake Malcolm Chalmers Cowichan. He now exclusively makes Glenda Burg of the family run business and ships his meat strudels to grocery Gerard’s Speciality Foods displaying stores on Vancouver and Salt Spring their frozen meat strudels. Islands. Here in Lake Cowichan, Country Grocer sells Gerard’s strudel in the deli and meat departments. Later this month, Gerard’s is introducing the party pack of 120 frozen cocktail meat strudels for sale at their store located at 102-205 South Shore Road. All of the products are made in Lake Cowichan, in the building Gerard and his family manages. For more information, check them out on Facebook, facebook.com/ beefstrudel or their website, beefstrudel.com, or better yet, drop by the store.
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