I'm pure Litvak on all sides and it was apple sauce all the way. Sour cream means you only eat latkes with diary meals. Side note: I have spent several months in Lithuania over the years. "Kugelis" was considered a Jewish dish, and it was always on the menu at the Vilnius State University cafeteria. It was just like my mother's kugel! On one visit I stated with the yiddish writer Gregory Kanovich. His Lithuanian wife taught me how to make the real thing. I will share the secret with anyone who writes me for it.
Jules Levin
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On 8/17/2020 6:14 AM, Diane Jacobs wrote: My mother made the best potato latkes And we never put anything on them, just grabbed them out of the frying pan as they were done.
Diane Jacobs
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-------- Original message -------- From: Joan Parker <parker5850@...> Date: 8/16/20 5:41 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jewishgen <main@...> Subject: [JewishGen.org] Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer? #galicia #lithuania
Recent posts about Galicia brought to this senior's mind from the distant past... what you put on your latkes showed from whence the family came, or so the story vaguely goes for me. Apple sauce? Sour Cream? Something else? Having a sweet tooth my choice was applesauce, but others used sour cream as far as I can remember from way back when.. Applesauce = ??? Sourcream = ??? Something else = ??? My family is from Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Russia-Poland. My in-laws were from Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus. Stay safe and well, Joan Joan Parker Past President/Archivist JGS of Greater Miami, Inc. *1) GOLDBERG/ GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, BERGER, GERBER/CRAWFORD, JAGOD*A-Lipno, Plonsk, Plock, Poland-Russia; Warsaw, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA. *2) PARKER/PINKUS, WINOGRAD, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)., R0SEN*, -Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. *WEISS, NEIKRUG, DEL PINO*--Brooklyn, NY. *RABWIN*--Hollywood, CA, Salt Lake City, UT*. CLAYTON-*California*.* *3) GELFAND, KRITZOFF, KATZ, TROCK* --Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus, Bronx, NY, Miami and Miami Beach, FL.
-- Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
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