Melba's Jammin' > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> Don Gray > wrote:
>> > D.Currie wrote:
>> > > When you make the batches of pierogi, what do you do to freeze
>> > > them? Do
> (snip)
>>
>> I suppose that it sounds strange but I'd never even heard of
>> P*******s until I came across them in this group. See I can't even
>> write the word, for I see here different spellings and don't know
>> which to use. I'm still not much the wiser except that I came across
>> them once up in just one of my hundreds of cookery books.
>
> Don, think Eastern European ravioli (Italian but better known,
> perhaps). A filled noodle dough (as opposed to a yeast dough or
> another type bread dough). Pierogi is the Polish word for them,
> pirohy is the Slovak word (we're neighbors on the Continent, doncha
> know; in some parts of Ukraine they are called varenyky. You will
> only hear me refer to them as pirohy because I am a nice Slovak girl,
> purebred. Dobru' chut'!

Filled pasta dumplings of whatever sort are thought ( I recently
learned ) to have originated in Anatolia ( Turkey ). There they are
called something like "mentu". In Korea they are called "Mandu".
This is not thought to be a coincidence.
Puts the Babylon 5 lizard guy's comment about Swedish Meatballs
in some sort of perspective.

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