Re: [Cz-L] TOCZERL

Potato pancakes, now mostly called "Latkes", in Czernowitz were generally
called Chremslach or Toczerl. We also made potato pancakes out of cooked
mashed potatoes, but I cannot remember what we called those.

Mimi

On 7/3/10 2:20 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> With fascination I follow the correspondence on the Toczerl issue.
> First I thought it deals wit a small Tocz which I know too well.
> A housewife being short on potatoes would make a Toczerl !
> How wrong I was !
> First , a Czernowitzer housewife was never short on potatoes.
> All she had to do was go down to the street and stop the first
> peasant and ask : "Mayesh Kartuflya ?"
> But a Toczerl seems something extra - except the size its ingredients
> are different and the flavor must have been out of heaven.
> All this , I must admit , I missed.
> Of course I can make Toczerl now , but it will not bring back any
> memory.
> Only give me heartburn.
> Hardy

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