My Russian/Slovak family calls those ROZHkee,
though I don't know how it's spelled.
Posted on 12/21/2004 3:08:45 PM PST by Little Bill
When I was a kid, newly exiled from Idaho, I ran across Kilbasa(sp) from Chet and Dots on Cottage street in Lynn, Mass, behind St Mikes.
Now, I am not a Pole, my mother was an Irish war bride form Lynn, but this stuff was great, my family is of English descent, we like our meat on a spit and near raw. My Ex, of 27 years, was a Pole but generally burned water.
I discovered that a person that I work with is the grandson of Chet and Dot, and made 85 pounds of the home made stuff in the control room af a major electric utility in Mass, it was great.
Lekvar are my favorites. How come nobody has mentioned Hrutka?
You bet your dupa.
My middle name and my dad's first name for Witold. I just finished making some home made pirogi with my new Kitcheaid mizer bought just for the purpose
Did anyone catch the Thank Our Polish Allies (in Iraq) thread earlier?
I think Polish trade and tourism should be up this year from freepers alone! I hear it is beautiful there
I've usually seen that stuff in the grocery aisle with all the other baking supplies (pie fillings and stuff like that). If I remember, poppy seed comes like a paste that's in a jar, not a can.
That's not the stuff she's looking for. She wants a dry poppy seed that is freshly ground. We can get it upstate in the coal region (Freeland) but we only go up there a couple times a year. We never miss Easter.
But maybe the poppyseed paste that I'm thinking of is used for poppyseed roll and not poppyseed bread. I better just keep my mouth shut and let xsmommy answer the question. I love eating the stuff and have watched it being cooked many times, but it would be dangerous to assume that my cooking advice is any good.
Yep, that's what I was afraid of.
Please ignore me.
I like helping in the kitchen, but I usually make a mess of things.
Sorry!
;^)
My grandmother was born in Krakow Poland and came to America when she was a year old. She spoke Polish fluently as did my mother. This thread is killing me as I was recently diagnosed with diabetes and high cholesterol and can't eat any of the fine fare in the many Polish cookbooks left to me. What a waste. Guess I should post some of the recipes. I would kill for a nice plate of pierogi about now.
It ain't right. It just ain't right.
But my holiday wishes for you are good health with the proper medical care.
My Russian/Slovak family calls those ROZHkee,
though I don't know how it's spelled.
He also says this is the "bible" of sausage making and smoking meats:
http://www.sausagemaker.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=413
Had elk summer sausage this afternoon, warm out of the smoker. Yummm.
Each year, while everyone else is reaching for the ham, I'm hording the kielbasa. I'm such a stereotype.
You're right,for once,Willie,dear. I've been reading this thread (my mother-in-law was born in Poland,was a lovely lady,but a TERRIBLE cook) and Hungarians (which you aren't,so stop calling yourself a "hunky"!)make those cookies too.Hungarians also make/eat Kielbasa and I love it in lentil soup.
Bohemian=BoHunk=Hunky
Hunky=Hungarian
Neither are PC,nor "good"/nice terms,anyway...but pejoratives.
Well there's no telling for certain whether I'm part Hungarian or not.
Franz Josef of Austria was also king of both Bohemia and Hungary when my great-grandparents fled to America on the boat. So maybe somewhere in my ancestry there's some kind of Hungarian or Austrian interbreeding. OTOH, my grandfather was always insistant on calling himself Bohemian rather than Czech, so maybe it has something to do with his family wishing that Bohemia was free from opression by Austrians and immigration by Hungarians and Germans.
;^)
If you know where your great grandparents were from,I might be able to look at my great grandmother's Baedeker and tell you for sure and certain whether it is now part of some other nation now. But so many name changes have happened,so many pieces of this and that are now part of something other,it's sometimes impossible to find old place names now.
Hungary wished DESPERATELY to be FREE of the "empire".Empress Elizabeth(Erzabet) was very sympathetic to that,as were here son and heir,Rudolph.Franz Ferdinand was assassinated,never took the throne,and WW I "freed" up some of the nations that made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire,but that didn't help them any;sadly.
That looks like a good recipe...
I've heard of almond paste but never poppy paste- aside from heroin, that is...<P.
Though I have come across poppyseed filling in cans- it's nowhere near 100% poppyseed.
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