Re: [Cz-L] Bukovina food stories - Pesach in 1930s Cz

Dear David,

This is terrific!
I hope other people will follow suit and send more Bukovina food
stories - photos, too if possible.

Thank you so much.

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Glynn" <glynn_at_spontini.co.uk>
To: "Merle Kastner" <merlek_at_videotron.ca>
Cc: "czernowitz list" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "michael glynn"
<michael_at_glynnflatley.com>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 7:17 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Bukovina food stories - Pesach in 1930s Cz

> Merle,
>
> You might like my mother Erica's account of Pesach in Czernowitz in her
> childhood in the 1930s for your collection. (I will send you a photo
> separately.)
>
> "For us the highlight of the year was Pesach, which we celebrated in a
> grand manner. The whole family, including my mother's sisters and their
> husbands and children spent all eight days at our small apartment.
> Cousins of different generations and friends would visit at Pesach, so
> there was a never-ending stream of people, lemon tea, hot egg Kaislechs
> soaked in wine. I would go with Zazia to get the Matzos from the Kosher
> baker, make sure they were all perfectly baked, then trundle them home in
> a giant wicker basket, crammed to the brim with enough for all eight days.
> At home, the Matzos were stored away next to neatly stacked baskets of
> eggs, three hundred eggs or more. In another corner, Mama's specially
> fermented Passover borsht glowed bright pink, alongside deeper-tinted home
> brewed Morello cherry brandy. On a high shelf were almonds, walnuts,
> sugar, preserves for baking and piles of finished biscuits. Throughout
> Pesach family and friends were crammed together, chatting, cooking,
> eating, or - adults only - having an after-lunch siesta, herring-bone
> fashion across the beds.
>
> On Seder nights, one of my uncles always took out glasses of red wine to
> the maids. This was to demonstrate that it was wine, not the blood of
> Christian children. In the Bucovina, the Blood Libel myth which had led
> to so much suffering for Jews through the centuries, was still not dead -
> at any rate among some of the peasants."
>
> David
>

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