Re: [Cz-L] Powidla & Romanians

Well, you started it and I guess it's because in Israel the "Sagiv" (the
Israeli version of plums) season started . We lived in a house in
Novoselitsa with a big backyard where quite a lot of fruit trees grew. Among
them also plum trees that yielded (as far as I can judge after 72 years)
something like 500-700 kilograms of fruit. This small plantation was tended
through the year by 3-4 farmer women (one of them my wet nurse) whom we
hired on the base that they get
all the surplus harvest that we didn't use. When the picking of the plums
was finished a few huge vessels were brought and acordingly big fires were
lit in a free space of the backyard. The vessels filled with plums were hung
over the fires and the process of making povidla (including the stirring)
lasted over the night by "our" women aided by friends with my mother serving
refreshments. Always on the Sunday after the distribution of povidla (but
sometimes on other Sundays too) I was taken by the coachman Mishu to a
square to watch the farmers dance "Horah" at the "Joc" (a dance festivity).
When I was put by the British in detention camps in Cyprus I was very much
surprised that they called the Israeli dances "Horah" too.
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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "Sylvia de Swaan" <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>; "fred love"
<fredhotman_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "frieda tabak"
<frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>; "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
"CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla

> The big Povidl deluge.
> It rained plums on Czernowitz for two weeks now.
> The plums were standing two feet high in the streets and rising.
> At the start of week three the mass started sliding down to the Prut.
> The flow was an avalanche of pure Povidl !
> It took with it all in its way , people ,horses , fiakers.
> The Prut was purple.
> On day 14 the rain stopped.
> A yellow Katchke came flying in from the North.
> If had a Lopate in its beak.
>
> Hardy
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