Posted on 02/15/2010 2:19:07 PM PST by Salvation
We still at the dairy products and eggs, however.
Any other childhood or family stories out there?
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The only real changes have come in the varieties of wheat and the quality of the milling.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
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Pancakes? Bah
Paczki or nothing.
1800 calories of yummy goodness.
Can you share your recipe?
Just looked it up — Polish donuts of a kind, correct?
I have my Mardi Gras striped shirt from 1996’s parade in jefferson, tx.
I’m shaking my head driving past a Catholic church - “Ash Wednesday Fish Fry” they so don’t get it - a fish fry on a day of fast & abstinence?
I wonder if this grew out of the Jewish tradition of stripping the house and the cupboards of any type of leavening and flour in preparation for Passover? I had a Jewish friend who used to get rid of everything, cleane the cupboards, stove, refrigerator, and then start over.
Fasting is one full meal and two small meals.
Abstinence means eating no meat.
Nothing wrong with a Fish Fry if you only have two other light meals on Ash Wednesday.
Seems like a waste of food unless it was given to the poor.
Smacznego!
Ash Wednesday has always been a solemn day to me - Fish Fry doesn’t sound solemn to me. Just the way my family observed it - nothing else.
Friday AFTER Ash Wednesday was always the first one - big gathering of the congregation after Stations of the Cross.
It’s in memory of when the Jews were hounded out of their homes and they had to flee and didn’t have time to let the bread rise (hence unleavened bread). We use unleavened bread in our ceremonies too (hosts). And many references to “the lamb”. They marked their door posts with the blood of the lamb and the marked houses were “passed over” and lived for another day. Our Easter is called Pasch, or Paschal, which is a derivitive of the Hebrew word for Passover. They get rid of the flour, cake mixes, etc. because they use only potato flour during Passover — not wheat.
I am a Catholic trying to describe the meaning of the Jewish traditions, so please forgive any inaccuracies. This is what I was told and how I remember it from my co-worker’s explanation.
I did not know about stripping the kitchen of all leavening and flour and starting over until I knew Fern. I haven’t seen her for years, but I’ve been thinking about her a lot because I’m currently doing the same to my pantry so that I can paint. Not as extreme a strip, but when I look at the age of some of the packages in the back of the cupboards, I’m thinking that it is not such a bad idea. :)
I drive to the Polish Bakery and wait in line at 4am.
They are way too much work!
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