Re: The [Cz-L] Bukowina Jewish Cook-Book

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:28:52 -0500
To: <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
Reply-To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Mordecai,

I do not know whether you meant ANY Matza Shmura, or only one
which had been left out in the snow.
The only time I remember eating Matza Shmura (we called it "Shmireh")
was in 1944 or 1945, when it was again available in Czernowitz.
It did NOT nock out my baby teeth.

Mimi
On Jan 11, 2014, at 2:34 PM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:

> Dear Merle,
>
> I am glad not to be the first one with this suggestion. I had met
> this many years ago, but having read it again, I could not help
> enjoying the puns in it, and thought that there might be still
> someone who had not had the opportunity to have a good laugh.
> However, just a couple of days ago I saw on some newscast from the
> USA a guy who was handling a pizza piece that had been left outside
> in the last cold snowstorm, claiming that it could be used as a
> wooden board or even as a saw, which reminded immediately the
> description in one of the items (the Matzo - incidentally have you
> ever tried to bite into a Matza Shmura and retained your teeth in
> good shape?)... I suppose you in Canada had similar experiences
> these last two weeks.
>
> Shavu'a Tov
>
> Mordecai
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca>
> Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014 20:10
> Subject: Re: The [Cz-L] Bukowina Jewish Cook-Book
> To: lapidotm_at_inter.net.il
> Cc: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-
> L_at_cornell.edu>
>
>> Dear Mordecai,
>>
>> OH! I thought you meant that seriously. hahaha!
>>
>> As you know, that joke has been circulating for a few
>> years and is far from new. Actually, someone else proposed
>> including that same joke in the cookbook a couple of years
>> ago, too. So you've got company. ;-)
>>
>> Sure - if you or anyone else has (real) recipes, do send them.
>> It is really too bad that your mother didn't leave hers -
>> that would have been a 'find'.
>>
>> Merle
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