Corrected version of [Cz-L] Stories

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From: "Andermann, Lisa Dr." <LAndermann_at_mtsinai.on.ca>
To: "Merle Kastner" <merlek_at_videotron.ca>; <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Stories

> Dear Merle
> I am sending in this food memoir on behalf of my father, Frederick
> Andermann.
> I'll send you the photos in a separate email.
> Many thanks,
> Lisa
>
>
> "Souvenirs of Pesach"
> Frederick Andermann
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>
> Pesach was and remains indelibly imprinted on my memory. The
> preparations, in particular, were memorable. Borscht was an essential
> ingredient to the Pesach meals. It was prepared in enormous glass jars of
> a size no longer produced. The ‘flour’ floating on the borscht probably
> rendered it unkosher, but we enjoyed it just the same.
>
> We would go to buy kosher wine, usually Riesling, in a dank basement with
> enormous barrels and return with unlabeled bottles which I was allowed to
> taste.
>
> My aunt, Julia Hubner, would make ‘pastete’ consisting of unleavened
> pancakes interleaved with a filling based on chopped meat and liver.
>
> The highlight of Pesach was the gefrischte matze, still a feature in our
> homes, soaked matzes dipped in egg. Or chremslach, with similar
> ingredients but shaped into patties and then fried. Boiled potato patties
> were also features of the Pesach meal.
>
> In Czernowitz, geese were sometimes available to be slaughtered for the
> holidays and the fat was rendered, leaving behind grammeln, otherwise
> known in Yiddish as grieven, the most delicious, though not necessarily
> healthiest, product of the goose. The fatty hypertrophied liver of the
> bird provided yet another delicious, but again unhealthy delicacy.
>
> I am reminded of a poor woman who eventually managed to put together
> enough money to buy a goose. She went to see the shojchet and said to him
> “Shojchet, kojletz mir di gens” (slaughter my geese) with the emphasis on
> the plural, an indication of her affluent status.
>
> A kosher restaurant was located near our home on Karolinengasse 5, in a
> basement. Kishke mit farfel was one of their specialties. There was a
> great to-do when a "fiesenseckel" (otherwise known as a sock) emerged from
> the middle of the dish.
>
> Uptown Czernowitz was not terribly observant of religious food
> commandments. Podsudek was a famed pork butcher. Their roast pork with
> cumin seeds, kochwurst and wieners, were their most prized products. The
> aroma and the remembrance of the sawdust on the floor are vivid to me
> still.
>
> In no particular order, I would like to mention the marinated apples (or
> kwassnetzes) or sour apples which were sold from big water-filled jars and
> which were delicious. Another Czernowitz specialty were the green walnuts,
> which were peeled and sold from fluid-filled jars. The dark brown stained
> hands of the urchins selling these were a source of wonder, but only much
> later the staining ability of the unripe nuts to colour skin or hair
> became apparent to me.
>
> Remembering these snatches of childhood experience is like eating: “l’appetit
> vient en mangeant”. Thus, further gustatory souvenirs will most likely
> emerge.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________
> From: bounce-6078406-3499255_at_list.cornell.edu
> [bounce-6078406-3499255_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Merle Kastner
> [merlek_at_videotron.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:05 PM
> To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Stories
>
> Dear Bukoviner friends,
>
> I have begun collecting nostalgic stories about food and just plain life
> experiences
> from some of you. I would love to have many more of these - the
> collection of them will make
> a beautiful tribute to life as it was in Czernowitz and in Bukovina in
> general in the old days.
> I am compiling a Bukovina, More Recipes and Stories, Vol. III for eventual
> posting online.
>
> So, please send me what you have and I will add it to the collection.
>
> In addition, I need to know in which city you live and have a photo of
> yourself and, if possible,
> the house or street in which you lived.
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Merle
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