 One hint at an Austrian or German origin is the fact that a conservative Transylvanian nobleman, Péter Apor, in his work "Metamorphosis Transylvaniae" does not mention Kürtőskalács in the list of traditional Hungarian foods, for all the evidence we have about the cake already existing in his wife's cuisine.In a letter from a mother superior in Moldavia addressed to Mrs Péter Apor, née Borbála Kálnoki, the writer asks Mrs. Apor to have a butler of hers taught the art of baking kürtőslalács