>(Greykits) writes:
>>
>>>(PENMART01) wrote:
>>>
>>>>(Greykits) writes:
>>>>
>>>>Grandmas always made the best food, better than mommy. I don't recall any desserts Grandma made,
>>>>but she made a good beet soup and a meatloaf.
>>>
>>>Oh, two of my very favorites... you wouldn't happen to have the recipes, or at least
>>>extrapolations thereof.
>>>
>>Grandma was born in Lithuania in 1893. She came from frugal peasant stock, so she didn't waste
>>anything. She never had me help her cook. It was just
>when
>>I visited, she'd say, have some of this. Her meatloaf had grated vegetables
>in
>>it, so it was moist and flavorful. I've come close using grated carrots and potatoes.
>>
>>As for what she called beet soup, it was always pink in color. From what I can tell, Lithuanians
>>don't tend to use meat stock to cook beet soup. Here is a very good site on the culture with
>>recipes:
>>
>>
http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/EWG/ewgtitulinis.htm
>>
>>Nothing is better than left-over kugeli sliced and fried in butter!
>
>My grand parents were born in Latvia... as was my father, in Riga, my mother in Baltimore, MD...
>food and traditions are the same. Wonderful breads... my grandmother would knead the dough right
>after the dinner dishes were put away, wrap it in floured linen and tuck the great balls of dough
>into their bed... before sun-up she'd be in the kitchen baking the bread and preparing a huge
>breakfast; soft boiled eggs, homemade jams and fruit compote, farmer/pot cheese, butter, a variety
>of herrings, thick slabs of heavenly bread, coffee, babka, and healthy glasses schnapps of
>course... medicinal, for digestion. There was never any meat for breakfast, only the herrings. My
>grandmother had no Kitchen Aid, only her hands, as it should be to make real bread. My grandmother
>always smelled of yeast... yoose can keep those freedom parfumes on those anorexic haricot verts...
>give me heaving womanly cleavage scented with a dusting of Fleishman's. Thanks for the URL.
You are welcome!
I have so many fond memories of my little Lithuanian grandma, the only grandparent I ever got to
meet. She was a tough woman, having raised 4 kids through the Depression by herself - the other kids
died. She told me that she stopped crying forever when she had to sew the shroud for one of her
children. She retired from her job as a charwoman at the Penobscot Building in Detroit when she was
75. What more can I say about her? As her youngest grandchild I was blessed.
As for her kugeli, she would grate potatoes and let them drain - and then match that amount with
milk. I'm not sure whether she fried her bacon before, but about half a pound of bacon went into
this dish. A whole onion was grated and put in. An egg or two were put in and this would bake for
some time. This is a very good dish!
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