[Cz-L] 21 steps for the proper preparation of gefilte fish

Here another great recipe! Enjoy!
Gabriele

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Betreff: Fw: 21 steps for the proper preparation of gefilte fish

> >A Jewish Grandmother's 21 Steps To the Proper Preparation of Gefilte
> >Fish
> >
> >
> >1 Two weeks before a major Jewish holiday, call your daughter and
> >ask her what she plans to serve at the festive meal. Express your
> >outrage when she suggests serving doctored up canned gefilte fish.
> >Offer to make the fish yourself.
> >
> >
> >2 Suggest that your daughter take a day off from work so that she
> >can watch you make the fish, so she'll know how to do it for her
> >kids after she has put you in The Home. Two days before the holiday,
> >call your daughter and tell her that you hate to disappoint her but
> >you simply don't
>have the strength to make gefilte fish.
> >
> >
> >3 While your daughter is racing all over looking for a substitute
> >appetizer, get all dressed up and take a bus...and a subway...and
> >another bus...
> >
> >
> >4 ...to an obscure fish store in a slum where they still sell LIVE
> >CARP.
> >
> >
> >5 Examine the carp swimming in the fish tank. Ask the owner if any
> >fresher carp will be arriving soon.
> >
> >
> >6 On principle, reject the first two fish that he offers you.
> >
> >
> >7 Accept the third or fourth. Allow him to fillet and skin the carp
> >but NEVER let him put your fish near his electric grinder. Far be it
> >from you to accuse someone unjustly, but you know he has ground dead
> >carp in it.
> >
> >
> >8 Lugging three heavy shopping
>bags filled with fish, take three
> >buses home, unless someone has told you about a way of taking four.
> >
> >
> >9 Call your daughter and tell her that you felt a little bit better
> >and decided to go to your special fish store to pick up the carp.
> >You know how busy she is right before the holidays so you didn't
> >want to ask her to drive all the way out there.
> >
> >
> >10 Tell her how exhausted you are and describe in detail the
> >assassin who tried to steal your pocketbook as you were boarding the
> >second bus. Inquire whether your daughter would mind picking you up.
> >You normally wouldn't ask but it's much easier to make the gefilte
> >fish in her kitchen because she has all the latest electric gadgets.
> >
> >
> >11 Remove several washed mixing bowls from your
>daughter's
> >dishwasher and then rinse them to make sure they are clean.
> >
> >
> >12 There should be a separate bowl for each ingredient so that dirt
> >from the carrots will not get on the celery. Put the diced carrots
> >in one bowl, the sliced celery in the second, the chopped onions in
> >the third and then combine them all in a fourth bowl. Ask your
> >daughter to stop whatever she is doing and come and watch you.
> >
> >
> >13 Eye your daughter's food processor with suspicion. Ask her to
> >help you operate it. Chop the carp in it for 15 seconds, then move
> >all the ingredients into your ancient wooden chopping bowl.
> >
> >
> >14 Rev up those arms and attack the ingredients with a dull bladed
> >knife for 90 minutes. Demand that your daughter acknowledge the
> >superiority of
>your withered arm over a horsepower motor.
> >
> >
> >15 Place your hand on your chest and moan. Accept your daughter's
> >offer to help. Give her the bowl and the chopper
> >
> >
> >16 Twelve seconds later, snatch the bowl and chopper out of your
> >daughter's hands. Tell her to watch carefully so she'll be more of a
> >help next year. Pulverize the fish with your chopper for another 52
> >minutes.
> >
> >
> >17 On the bottom of a cast-iron pot with a non-matching lid (rescued
> >by your mother during a pogrom and brought in steerage to America),
> >arrange slices of carrots, onions, celery, fish heads, skin and
> >bones.
> >
> >
> >18 Form the chopped fish mush into oval patties and lay them gently
> >on top of the ingredients in the pot.
> >
> >
> >19 Add liquid
>and seasonings, bring the pot to a boil, lower to
> >simmer, cover the pot and let the fish cook until they're ready and
> >taste good...but not as good as last year's.
> >
> >
> >20 After the patties cool, arrange them on a beautiful serving
> >platter for your daughter and her guests. Dump the heads, skin and
> >bones in a chipped bowl for yourself. Practice saying that the heads
> >and the bones are the tastiest portions until you sound convincing.
> >

Gabriele Weissmann
Kaiserdamm 18
D- 14057 Berlin

Tel./Fax: +49.30.321 15 38
E-Mail: G.Weissmann_at_gmx.de

[Moderator's note: We generally do not allow "forwards" on the list; we try to keep the discussion limited to Czernowitz and Sadagora History and Genealogy. But an exception is being made here for one amazing recipe. Bruce]
Received on 2006-10-23 12:45:51