Listers, All this talk about carp and I was off list for the day. Jimi's description of Kosher is correct and KR's recipe is pretty close to my Grandmother's.
She would always make her own Gefilte fish and her combo of Pike, Carp, and whitefish was from heaven. Unfortunately it went to the grave with her. Have never had gefilte fish that comes to hers in flavor. My father-in-law not only made his own gefilte but his own horseradish as well. He always made one very fresh, especially stung batch for the newcomer. It was sort of the family initiation to watch the latest arrival to family melt in front of everyone. Diane is an incredible cook and does make many of the traditional Jewish (eastern European) dishes Tzimmis (beef and potatoes stew or beef and carrots stew) kasha and varniskeh's (groats onions and mushrooms with bow ties ), praches (guttural ch) (stuffed cabbage) and many, many more, but we buy our gefilte fish. It is very traditional to serve at the Passover Seder and as such is a key component in CRITICAL MATZOH MASS !!! (LOL) Coming very soon. There are a couple on the market that are very good. My favorite is by a company called ROKEACH and is a pike and whitefish combo. In high school I worked in a Deli and we had whole carp, herring, chubs, whitefish, etc either in the deli case or in the barrels in the back. The real killers were "SCHMALTZ " herring. These fish had an order that was > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Desert Eagle > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [VFB] Carp Again > > > Enjoyed it Tony, nice thoughts. > Jimi > > > > We got our first spinning rods and we used to go the the > upper Passaic River on our bicycles and catch Carp. Yes, we > road bicycles when I was in High School .............. > handle bars and head for the Jewish chicken markets. We had > no problem selling the carp. The carp would be put in large > holding tanks and we had to wait for our money till the carp > showed no signs of dying. We did this a couple of times a > week. > Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
