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Tag Archives: Jewish
The Best of the Clippings for Kugel Recipes
I don’t think my mother ever made a noodle kugel for the Jewish holidays, but that didn’t stop her from clipping recipes from a variety of sources and stuffing them into a Jewish cookbook that she kept on her shelf. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewish, kugel, mother, noodles, Richmond, Rosh Hashanah, Virginia
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A is for Grandma’s Apple Cake
I’m not sure what variety of apples my grandmother, Hanna, used in the Fresh Apple Cake recipe she clipped from the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper in the 1930s, but I wanted to try it this week because apples – especially when … Continue reading
Posted in Food, History, memoir
Tagged apples, cake, cream, grandmother, honey, Jewish, Jewish New Year, Richmond, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rosh Hashanah, Roxbury Russet, top cream, vintage apples, Virginia
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Matzo in the Mountains in Charleston, West Virginia
My great-grandfather, A.P. Silverstein, an immigrant from Lithuania, traveled through the central United States as a peddler in the 1890s. As family legend goes, his horse dropped dead and he couldn’t afford another, so he stayed in West Virginia. He … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, Charleston, Jewish, matzo, Passover, peddler, West Virginia
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