Re: [Cz-L] Vishniak

It is amazing how very similar all of us lived. My memories of home are the
same. We did live in a country of great riches - all the fruit of the
seasons, all the preparations for winter to retain some of the
spring/summer/ autumn riches for the cold long winter ahead. Mother
preserved them all, just like Mrs. Fichman's, and our pantry was situated,
just as, hers nest to the maid's room. One more thing my mother preserved
was "vinete"(obergine) salad. One prepared oh, about 20 or 30 of them on th=
e
hearth, peeled them mixed them in a huge container with lots of garlic and
vinegar so they could be filled into bottles and used as salad on cold
winter days. Garlic was healthy and kept colds away. Nowadays you take them
in tabs??!!
Yes, life was so different then. My mother still made noodles for the soup
herself in the 60's and she thought me a bad hostess because I bought a
ready made cake for my guests, I never did it again for 20 odd years but I
do today again.
I'd like to add that nowadays something new is to be had. The other day I
saw a spray, next to clean air sprays, which said "baking" spray. I asked
the shopkeeper what's that and he answered: "I have a client, an elderly
woman who asked for it. Until now she used to bake at home but now she buys
it. Her friends think it's home made when they come into the apartment.
Life does change, doesn't it !!! The longer I live the more I learn.
Regards,
anny

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, <fichblue_at_aol.com> wrote:

> Here is some writing related to vishniak, from my late mother's
> memoirs, Before Memories Fade, by Pearl Spiegel Fichman:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Any time Mother went to market for food, she would also bring home
> flowers in season. Peasant women offered vegetables, fruit or poultry
> and they also brought flowers from their gardens. We always had some on
> the big dining room table; they gave the room a special fragrance.
>
> The fruits paraded through the season in a natural sequence. We first
> enjoyed cherries - white, pink, red and the last in the season, sour
> cherries. Mother made preserves from pink and white cherries; Father
> sometimes made "Vishniak" from sour cherries. It became a kind of
> "Cherry Heering", more substantial than wine but less concentrated that
> liqueur. In the summer, fruits and berries were a string of delights.
> Tiny wild strawberries, picked in the woods - a treat with sweet cream.
> Gooseberries and raspberries were made into syrup of brilliant scarlet
> color and stored in bottles, for use all through the year. A summer
> treat used to be: cold soda water with syrup.
>-snip-
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