This European "BLOOD HATRED" is something Americans of other heritage don't understand, but you and I do. :-)
You and I obviously have the same "family recipes". Perhaps it depends on WHERE the family originally came from. But that sour cream made me want to scream!
Some Hungarians DO top cucumber salad with a dolop of sour cream, but my family never did. I've only seen that in recipe books.
Did your family make "dirty noodles"? Boiled, flat egg noodles, covered in lekvar, walnut pieces, and sprinkled with cinnamon? My grandfather loved that for brunch.
> Did your family make “dirty noodles”? <
It’s a bit surprising, but even my grandparents (who were all born in Hungary) rarely cooked traditional Hungarian food. I got to see a variety only by going to local Hungarian-American festivals. And one of them is still held near me every summer.
Some exceptions to my family’s Americanized food: Very often they’d serve the traditional stuffed cabbage, palacsinta (a sweet pancake), and as a treat kürtőskalács(chimney cake).
And now a confession. I know how to spell palacsinta. But I had to look up kürtőskalács. I mess up the accent marks every time.