Thank you for the welcome.
How nice to know that the saffron really was used in Czernowitz. And how interesting that it was home-grown! (and the coincidence in closeness of names between your neighbor and mine is fun, too, though there is no relation. My father's great-grandfather came from Bohemia to the US in the late 1860s)
I made these challahs round, for Rosh Hashanah. I have never tried a 5 or 7 braid. I will have to look for instructions :)
Laura
On 10/04/11, Miriam Taylor<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
Laura,
Welcome to the Czernowitz-List.
Even though I have not baked my own challah, also called Koylich
in Czernowitz, for a long time, I still remember my mother baking one
and also our neighbor Mrs. Munster growing the crocuses, for the
saffron,
made from the stamen of the flowers. A small challah had 5 braids
and a really festive one had 7.
Mimi
On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Laura Munzer wrote:
> I made this for Rosh Hashanah. I used the saffron variation, half
> with
> golden raisins, half plain. It was wonderful! And so nice to make a
> recipe that is part of my heritage.
>
> I guess this is as good a time as any to introduce myself. I am
> Laura
> Munzer. I am 54, an attorney, widowed, and live in NJ. My maternal
> grandparents, Siegfried Gruen (Grunberg) and Clara Lehr, were from
> Czernowitz. They emigrated to the US in 1930. Grandpa was a part
> time
> Cantor, and became the Cantor at Grossinger's Hotel in the Catskills.
>
> I am enjoying this list and learning more about where my family
> came from.
>
> Laura
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