Bubbie's Recipes

Recipe Diary - First Recipe

2010-12-28T06:23:00.000-08:00

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It's been a while since I've posted here and I think it is about time that I started back up. Last time I visited my Mom she gave me this old diary that Bubba used to write a lot of her recipes in. Here is the first recipe in that book.

Title: "mezes torte"= honey cake

Recipe So Far

1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 lb ??????
1 1/2 c coffee, cooked
Dry ???, 2 tablespoons
1/2 glass oil
4 ?????
4 c flour
2 spoons (Hungarian:kanal) Cocoa

Starting Point

1 c. sugar

2 ?????

1 lb ??????

1 1/2 c ????? cooked

?????

1/2 ?????

4 ?????

4 c flour

1 ?????

Some Kinda Dairy Kugel

2008-02-28T13:46:00.000-08:00

This is clear some kind of milchik kugel, but what I have no idea. Maybe the sideways text on the left could help enlighten us since the second word is recipe (recipi), but it might just be someone's name.

Cheese Kugel

Recipe So Far
1 c sour cream
1 c cottage cheese
1 c milk
6 eggs
1 c pineapple
little raisins
1 c apples
1 c ????? (probably butter again)
1 sugar (I assume a cup)
honey 1/2 (assume a cup)

Starting Point
1 c sour cream?
1 c ?????
1 c milk
6 eggs
1 c ?????
little ?????
1 c apples
1 c ????? (probably butter again)
1 suger (I assume a cup)
?????

Wedding Cake Icing (Ajzink Vedink Kek)

2008-02-26T07:02:00.000-08:00

Ok, we've got another dessert related recipe here. Frankly, I think most of them are going to be dessert related. Bubba (that's what I called my bubbie since I'm from the south) was a master baker, and those baked goods centered around desserts. I guess the big question is if the info on the left hand side of this sheet is related to the recipe. I'm guessing probably not since the upper right is sectioned off, but since I have no idea what the bottom left says it could be. Remember to click on the recipe to get a bigger view if you are having any problems reading it.

Wedding Cake Icing

3 1/2 cups margarine
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 ?????
1 tsp ????? (vanilla maybe?)

Sugar Cookie Recipe (Suger Kuki)

2008-02-21T11:30:00.000-08:00

I've gone longer than I meant to between postings, but with all the life changes it's not that surprising. Parts of this recipe we have seen before, but some of it has me completely befuddled, like the text on the right hand side. I just love the way she spelled cookie!

Sugar Cookie

1 1/2 ?????
2 c Flour
1/2 c(?) sugar
soft ?????
eggs, 4 yellow egg yolks

My best guess for the text on the right hand side is "freeze dough to put", but I could be totally off base with that.

Completed Recipe

1 1/2 Butter
2 c Flour
1/2 c sugar
a pinch of salt
4 eggs
egg yolks for glazing

Freeze the dough

Piles O' Kitsch

2008-02-13T13:46:00.000-08:00

I know this blog is supposed to be dedicated solely to Bubbie's recipes, but some of the stuff she collected is so old school I just have to share. She seemed to keep anything that had a recipe she might want to try on it, so there is a lot of great stuff like this. I'm just going to have to post more of it! :-)

Linka's Cake Recipe (Linkoz Kek)

2008-02-11T07:09:00.000-08:00

This is the back of the recipe I posted on Friday. Initially I thought maybe there was more to the recipe on the first side, but I think its just a fairly simple sugar cookie type recipe. My best guess for this recipe is linkoz cake, the second word is DEFINITELY cake, but I'm not sure about the first.

Linkoz Cake

1 tbsp coffee
?????
10 eggs separated
Beat the whites
11 spoons ?????
10 spoons sugar
4 tsp MATZAH MEAL! (I'm impressed with myself for this one :-) )

Glaze for Egg yolk?

?????
4 ????? powder sugar
4 tablespoons what?
3 sticks margarine (What could be bad with 3 sticks of margarine?)

Completed Recipe

Linka's Cake

1 tbsp instant coffee
10 eggs, separated - whites beaten
11 spoons of nuts
10 spoons of sugar
4 tsp matzah meal

Glaze

4 squares of chocolate
4 egg yolks
4 tbsp powdered sugar
3 sticks margarine

Ayer Kichel Recipe

2008-02-08T07:33:00.000-08:00

I know my bubbie used to make Ayer Kichel all the time, but I can't remember which of her cookie shapes they were. I think that ayer is eggs and kichel is cookie, so a direct translation is simply just Egg Cookie. Most of this is relatively easy to translate, but I'm not sure what the end says; any ideas? Click on the image for a larger version if you have problems reading the one here. Also there is either more of this recipe written on the back side, or its a completely different recipe. I'll post that next.

Ayer Kichel

3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
4 eggs (seperated) - Egg Whites Beaten
1/2 cup Wesson oil

Instructions: The instructions on this are still a bit unclear, but I think the process is that you mix the flour, sugar, oil and baking powder together. Fold in the whipped egg whites. Roll out and cut into triangles, then glaze with egg yolk and sprinkle with sugar. I have my doubts about this dough since I don't think there is enough liquid listed for the amount of flower, but I'll just need to try it, she probably added in water.

Original Guess
3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
4 eggs (seperated)
????
1/2 ????
Sugar ?????

Spinach Kugel

2008-02-04T11:14:00.000-08:00

When my wife and I had our first anniversary we decided that we were going to go with the traditional anniversary gifts. As you may or may not know, the first anniversary gift is paper, which sounds fairly boring, but has been my favorite of the three that we have celebrated so far (paper, cotton, leather). My bubbie had passed away about 6 months prior and she compiled some of her recipes into two cookbooks with as much as she could translate. That is really when and where this project got started, so that is where I'm starting now.

Spinach kugel (coogle, koogle, etc.), or broccoli kugel, is something we had for shabbos dinner about monthly. Sam actually translated two of these recipes, and I'll be posting the other one later as well. This isn't the recipe the way she taught it to me, but it should give you an idea of what we are up against here

Here is the transliteration as far as I can tell:

Spinich Kugel
1/2 cztek mar?erin litel galek to test 1 1/2 kap bret kram pareve milk hal katen spinech ? pekeches 3 egz litel salt 1 aver tu bek	1/2 stick margerine a little garlic to taste 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs half or whole, not sure, carton of pareve milk two? packages of spinach (i.e. two frozen boxes) 3 eggs little salt Bake for 1 hour

Final Recipe

1/2 stick margerine
a little garlic to taste
1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
whole carton of non-dairy creamer (pareve milk)
two packages of spinach (i.e. two frozen boxes)
3 eggs
little salt
Bake for 1 hour

A little background

2008-01-23T11:26:00.001-08:00

My grandmother (bubbe, bubbie, bubba) was born in a part of Eastern Europe that changed hands many times. From the time she was born its been in the hands of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and now the Ukraine. She grew up in a small farming town and was in Auswitz during the Holocaust. After the war my great Uncle married her off to one of his buisness partners, and they traveled to American and settled in Tennessee. Since my parents divorced at a young age and my mother worked full time, I spent most of my free time at my grandparents' house. I grew up cooking these recipes along side my bubbie and I'm looking forward to sharing and revisiting the flavors of my childhood.