Gefilte Fish CARTE
5 SENSES A LA CARTE IDENTITIES Gefilte Fish For many people gelte sh is the epitome of traditional Jewish cooking. It was served on Shabbat and other high holidays in the For about 26 patties: shtetl, the small towns in Eastern Europe shaped by Jewish 7–7 ½ pounds whole carp, whitesh, and culture. Housewives procured a living sh, usually a carp, which pike, lleted and ground* was then killed at home. They cut open the sh’s belly in such a 4 quarts (liter) cold water or to just cover way that they could remove the bones and meat without tearing 3 teaspoons salt or to taste the skin. After mixing the meat of the sh with matzo meal or 3 onions, peeled white bread, they lled the sh skin with the farce. This way, one 4 medium carrots, peeled sh was enough to satisfy the whole hungry family. Since 2 tablespoons sugar cooking is not permitted on Shabbat, the dish was prepared 1 small parsnip, chopped before it began and eaten cold. 3–4 large eggs Even though gelte sh can be found in all varieties of Ashkenazi freshly ground pepper to taste cuisine, there were two distinct ways to prepare it in Eastern ½ cold water Europe, separated by a clear geographical line. In southwest ⅓ cup matza meal Poland, Galicia, and German-speaking regions, people preferred * Have your shmonger grind the sh and ask him to eat their gelte sh sweet. By contrast, the so-called Litvaks, to save and give you the tails, ns, heads, and Jews from Lithuania and other regions under Russian inuence, bones.
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