Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 79 October 6, 1991 1) Recipes (Martin Minow) 2) Ptcha (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 13:35:22 PDT From: Greater East Coast Co-prosperity Sphere 04-Oct-1991 1629 Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.78 Recipes? You want recipes? Well, I have here a present from my mom: a 70 page bilingual recipe book put out by Procter and Gamble in 1933 (hmm, could it have been a wedding present). All recipes are in both English and Yiddish: "This is to enable two people (as for example, a Yiddish-reading mother and an English-reading daughter) to work together on any particular recipe." I'd be willing to make a few copies for those of you who sincerely believe, as the cookbook's author apparently does, that "Goose-fat, chicken-fat, and olive-oil were good enough when there was nothing to take their place, but when it became possible to obtain a strictly Kosher and Pareve fat in the form of Crisco, Jewish women quickly appreciated its merits." Martin. minow@ranger.enet.dec.com [Makhteyse! Let's hope that P&G's authors were better schooled than the expert who wrote the book we use. She writes of Pidyon-A-Ben and Shal Achmones. nm] 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 91 From: nmiller@trincc Subject: Food terms Ptsha, that food of the Gods, is apparently also called kholodyets, but I don't know where (White Russia?). This came at first as a surprise because I remember kholodyets as a _fish aspic_ (carp, highly peppered of course) and equally delicious. My Russian dictionary, however, defines the word as either jellied meat or jellied fish. Would Bob Rothstein and other Slavicists please comment? As for galarite (Mikhl Herzog) or galaraite (Golda Werman), the Galician-born mother of a colleague makes a 'gala' which I assume is the same thing. Since she had lived in Belgium for many years I assumed that the word was somehow related to the French galantine, which means exactly the same. Now I know I was wrong about how _she_ picked up the word, but I wonder if one of our gifted linguists would comment on the larger con- nection if any. Noyekh ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.79