Re: [Cz-L] Recipes

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Thank you Berti for your reminiscences. I am always happy when someone
sends in a line from a verse, ditty or song we once were familiar with.
Just like we collect recipes, may be we should also collect
these popular "one liners".
 
How very much like Czernowitz; men do not talk about cooking,
"dass sind Weiber Geschichten". (these are women's stories)

In the days before baby sitters, my parents took me with them when they
visited friends. If the conversation turned to cooking or household
problems, my father later would tell me that when I grew up, I should be
sure not to talk like "dumme Weiber" (silly women).

Mimi

> Hello Friends,
>
> Whenever (and it happens very often) recipes are discussed between friends
> when we meet here in Haifa or Europe, I automatically switch off. So I am
> not going to interfere now and get you off that high recipe horse spell...
> but
>
> Miriam mentions Olga and Adolf Hess and their book about Wiener Kueche. My
> mother left the 193x edition in a deplorable status and we had it rebound
> sometime in the 1960th. All recipes including hand written additions,
> sometimes in steno. I remember reading A and O's monthly received by mother
> Abo from Vienna - of course not the recipes but the part about Heferl der
> Kuechenzwerg (he was the cooks aide) to whom all sort of adventures were
> adjudicated. The stories about him came in 4 or 5 pictures. All that at the
> Court ( I presume to impress the readers with elitist gourmet taste) of some
> undefined kingdom. Once the cook fished a big one from the royal pond, was
> swept into the water by the fish, Heferl sprang into the water after the
> cook, got hold of his foot, the fish still leading them forcefully around in
> the water, the king came by and very democratically (consider it was in
> 1937), although he still had his crown on and scepter in his hand -
>
> Kurz entschlossen sprang er 'rein
> Um die Beiden zu befrein.
>
> At the end - 4th picture, they were all led by the fish.
>
> I still don't like fish, but to those of you who will be here next March I
> can strongly recommend the best Gratar (grill) both in Israel and Romania
> here at Joji's, the vinete coming only second best to my wife's, but still
> worth the trip to Israel.
>
> I loved to eat Schmettentorte although my preferred one was Rokokotorte. As
> to recipes, sorry - may be scrambled eggs or coffee?
>
> All the best, and welcome to the 2007 meeting.
>
> Berti Glaubach.
>
Received on 2006-10-22 15:40:47