Re: [Cz-L] TYPICAL FOOD IN CZERNOWITZ

Dear Czernowitzers,

I make Malai often - and especially when I have people come for brunch.
It's always a great favorite and people always ask for the recipe. It's
easy
as pie (even easier than pie) freezes well, too.

Merle Kastner (Radautzer)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Cornel Fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "Paul Heger"
<pheger_at_gmail.com>; "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] TYPICAL FOOD IN CZERNOWITZ

> Cornel!
>
> And you claim to be a Czernowitzer! Ich bin ganz entsetzt!
>
> Malai is a corn meal cake and there are many different recipes as to how
> to
> make it. It can be the equivalent of a poor peasant's cake, or it can be a
> rich bread or cake. It can be made with yeast, or with baking powder. In
> my
> opinion, the yeast being much preferable and authentic. (Does anyone know
> when baking powder was invented?) The rich Malai also contains butter,
> eggs,
> sugar (a lot or a little) and some white wheat flour. It may contain sour
> cream (Schmetten or Shmetana), or it may be served with sour cream or
> "Kaletuch" (a variety of Yoghurt). It should have a nice medium brown
> crust
> and a moist crumbly interior. It is a "Mechayenish" to eat. Romania could
> solve its budget deficit by exporting it on a large scale.
>
> I did not find it on any restaurant menu in Chernivtsi.
> BUT, in one of the restaurants on the Herrengasse, they had "Mayine" on
> the
> menu. Unfortunately, they only serve it in the winter. Anyone willing to
> go
> to Chernivtsi to ski, have a snow fight or toboggan down the
> Veteranengasse
> ( a steep street connecting the Brauhasgasse with the Neuweldtgasse), then
> eat Ukrainian Borsht and Mayine?
>
> To those who have not experienced a Czernowitz winter, it gets quite cold.
> In the winter of 1940 - 41, the temperature went down to -40 Celsius,
> which
> happens to also be -40 Fahrenheit. That was unusually cold, the Russians
> had
> brought the cold with them from Siberia, but despite global warming, even
> this winter, the temperature is likely to go down to -30C = -22F.
>
> Have a nice weekend and happy dreams of Czernowitz,
>
> Mimi

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