Re: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: October 11, 2010

To order Oblaten (my mouth waters at the memory of my aunt's cakes made with Oblaten): <https://www.oblaten.com/ItemListOblaten.html>

Frieda Tabak

--- On Tue, 10/12/10, veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com> wrote:

From: veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com>
Subject: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: October 11, 2010
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 1:47 PM

Oyyoyoyoyoy....not only am I relearning Yiddish and German but these messag=
es make me hungry.=A0 It seems that not only are the languages related and =
linked but so are many foods.=A0 The mention of raisins in the Halusken, ho=
lischkes, whatever, got my gastric juices running with the thought of Sauer=
braten in which after marinating it you use raisins and sour cream and wine=
 vinegar and the result makes me tremble just thinking about it.=A0=20

I got the recipe out of a little recipe book that came with an old pressure=
 cooker.=A0 I don't know if Sauerbraten was popular in Cz.=A0 Toronto had a=
 couple of German restaurants, long gone now, where you could get it.=A0 No=
w the town is filled with Chinese restaurants, Thai, Indian, Latin American=
, a few Greek, some Italian, some Japanese but no German or French, or East=
ern European.

Back in Cz, Mother used to make what she called a Pischinger Torte with "Ob=
laten."=A0 When I lived in Los Angeles I once decided I wanted to make one =
and in that huge city of ten million people I could find none.=A0 I even ca=
lled the Austrian Trade Commission in the hope of getting some direction. T=
hey got excited. They mistook me for an importer and wanted to accommodate =
me with a railway carload of Oblaten.=A0 I explained I just wanted to make =
one cake for a friend's birthday.=20

There was another brand -=A0 Karlsbader -=A0 one came from Austria and one =
from Czechoslovakia.=A0 I finally found a deli in West Hollywood run by a G=
erman American. He had a box of Oblaten possibly brought along by a Hessian=
 mercenary who was brought in by the British to fight the American revoluti=
onaries in 1776. Some of the oblaten had a few holes in them left by hungry=
 California grubs and I cheated with the filling. Mother used to use seven =
hundred pounds of butter with chocolate to make the filling but I used Nute=
lla Hazelnut Spread - and it was still a great success.

What sort of foods can you find in Chernivtsi today?=20

Bon apetit,
Andy

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