ISO Your (Polish or Hungarian) Bubby’s Recipes

↑ Chayalle

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 10:27 am

crust wrote:

Thats not my recipe. I posted the way my mother's mother used to make it.
She was Hungarian all the way.

My father's father used to take 6 tablespoons sugar to his coffee and if the bag of sugar wasn't emptied in the pot of compote he would say its not sweet enough.
Also, completely Hungarian.

My mother was very health conscious so her cooking was completely different than that of her mother and mother in law hence the complain of my grandfather about her compote not being candied.

I still remember the barrels of sugar and nut-ola that were used in those two households. Barrels!

Interesting. I guess there are different styles of Hungarian cooking!

My father used to say that as a yeshiva Bachur, he would go to his great-uncle for Shabbos. After the war, this uncle married a Polish woman, and she would make very sweet fish. My father is the type that could eat anything anyway, but he did comment that that fish was "sweet" and it was Polish.

When I got married, I couldn't eat my MIL's overly sweet Holupchas (and my MIL's parents were Polish). My grandmother's stuffed cabbage (which she called gefilte kraut BTW) was savory/spicy rather than sweet.

She baked her cakes and cookies sweet, but other foods like meat, chicken, and fish were spicy and savory rather than sweet. And her compote was stewed apples with no added sugar. She chose large sweet apples but it was pure and natural.