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Contents of Vol. 19.004 June 26, 2009 1) eyer-kikhl (Rukhl Pudlowski Eissenstat) 2) eyer-kikhl (Shija Myer (Mike) Hirsch) 3) eyer-kikhl (Myra Leysorek) 4) eyer-kikhl (Norma Brewer) 5) eyer-kikhl (Paul Micheikin Pascal) 6) eyer-kikhl/kazyoner/oybst/makher (Leonard Fox) 7) eyer-kikhl/makher (Stephen Berr) 8) eyer-kikhl (Zulema Seligsohn) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 22, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl Are eyer-kikhl recipes similar to sweet vs. savory kugel and gefilte fish recipes with respect to Jewish geography? There are many variations in these simple cookies - some are sweet &/or glazed with sugar; some are unsweetened or barely sweet. There are some recipes with many more eggs proportionate to flour than others. Could these many differences reflect geographical and cultural variations rather than individual family traditions? Rukhl Pudlowski Eissenstat 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 17, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl Re: Josh Price's inquiry in Mendele 19.003: eyer-kikhl is a light, airy pastry consisting, I believe, mostly of egg white with a little sugar. The consistency is something like styrofoam, but crisper (and better tasting!). They are bowl-shaped, ranging in size from a child's tea cup to a large chopping bowl. They are often sold commercially at Peysakh. Zayt gezunt, Shija Myer (Mike) Hirsch 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 16, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl Aren't bowties eyer-kikhlekh? Myra Leysorek 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 17, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl Eyer-kikhl is a little, sweet home baked biscuit, made with eggs, as its name suggests. Norma Brewer 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 16, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl My grandmother o"h and her four daughters, including my mother o"h, were famous (in our family, anyway) for their "eyer-kikhl," which they called "Nothings" in English (at least, my mother and aunts called them that; I never heard my Bobe utter a word of English, even after 35 years in this country). These were pastries about the diameter of an orange, very light (mostly air, it seemed to me), barely sweet, cup-shaped with walls about half an inch thick, and the color of khale crust but nothing like it in consistency. "Eyer-kikhl" means "egg cake" and "egg pastry," so either egg is the key ingredient, or possibly they were called that because they were vaguely shaped like half an egg shell. Paul Micheikin Pascal 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 16, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl/kazyoner/oybst/makher Josh Price asked about "eyer-kikhl." Here are two internet sources with recipes for two different types of these cookies: http://books.google.com/books?id=3D8uRv9dKLSGUC&pg=3DPA253&lpg=3 DPA253&dq==3Djewish+egg+cookies&source=3Dbl&ots=3DETAoOL WS2J&sig=3DLXsnN5bNxsqRNgBnzz=xfemU3reo&hl=3Den&ei=3DA1 44Sp-2MJmqtgf7zqjcDA&sa=3DX&oi=3Dbook_result&ct=3D= result&resnum=3D10 http://is-that-my-bureka.blogspot.com/2007/12/jewish-bakery-favourites-no-3=.html There is another kind, for which I do not have a recipe. I remember it from my childhood when I would be invited after shabbes dinner by an Orthodox Jewish couple in my apartment building. I was asked to say kiddush over a small glass of wine and would then have some of these cookies for dessert. They were round and flat, not very sweet, with a distinctive egg taste. Frida Cielak requested translations for several words: 1. "oybst" is, I believe, the Yiddish version of the German word "Obst," meaning "fruit" as a generic term. 5. "kazyoner" refers to government-appointed rabbis in 19th century Russia, so-called "kazyoner rabiner," "Crown" rabbis, who were really secular functionaries rather than religious leaders. They were responsible for providing the state bureaucrats with statistics regarding the Jewish communities to which they were attached. 3. "makher" is, I think, too well known a word to require extensive comment. Leonard Fox 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 17, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl/makher Makher is a big shot, and eyer-kikhl are egg cookies. Thanks for making a little pisher like me feel like a makher. Stephen Berr 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: June 17, 2009 Subject: eyer-kikhl Josh Price asks about eyer-kikhl. It is what I would call a sugar cookie, with an egg base. There are many recipes for "egg kichel" (sic) on the Internet. "Eyer" are, of course, eggs. 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