Racine Kringle is a flat oval Danish pastry with a hole in the middle, about one and one-half feet in diameter and one inch thick. The dough is flaky and often filled with fruit, chocolate, pecan, or almond. Vanilla or chocolate iceing usually covers the top like the drippy coating on a doughnut.
Kringle is only found in Racine, Wisconsin, so I reverently refer to it as The Racine Kringle. The people of Racine have great pride in their Kringle and each gets them from their own favorite Danish bakery, much like their own favorite linebacker with the Greenbay Packers. It takes three days to make The Racine Kringle, and it is always purchased on thin white waxy paperboard wrapped in wax paper.
Last holiday season I was leaving Wisconsin with 3 kringles carefully wrapped in a carbboard box specifially designed for shipping The Racine Kringle without damage. The box was marked with my favorite bakerys logo on all sides and top. The kringle box didnt go in my luggage or even my carry-on. Rather, i carried it through the airport. At the security line, the lady checing ID{s and tickets made a wise crack comment on "The Danish" she called it. Wrong name lady. As I placed the box on teh conveyer for X-raying, the land of serious security and no joking around, even though everyone resists the urge to make bomb jokes. The head security officer for the x-ray area slooshes his overweight frame slowy toward me like a homicide detective with questions. Hands on his hips, he looks at me over his glasses from eyes that are a little too close together and says in a slow, serious tone, oozing with Wisconin accent, "Yah know, Kringles been known to dissapear in them x-ray machines."
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