On Sat 31 Dec 2005 03:30:47p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Don Gray?

> In message Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
>> On Sat 31 Dec 2005 01:29:40a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Don
>> Gray?
>>
>> > In message Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
>> >
>> >> Up here there are comercial perogies availible in grocery stores or
>> >> also made and sold by church groups to raise money....They are
>> >> frozen prior to being sold. Sold in pkges of 1 dozen. 12 frozen
>> >> perogies frozen into 1 big lump in their plastic bag. So either the
>> >> boiled with butter or prefrozen on waxed paper has it's merits.
>> >>
>> >> I eat mine just boiled with butter, sauted onions, bacon bits and
>> >> sour cream. When my kids were living at home I'd have to boil a mess
>> >> of them 3 dozen or so. Then pan fry some (my Daughter) and deep fry
>> >> some (my Son). They all settled for the condiments I previously
>> >> mentioned ( except no butter)
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>> Growing up in Cleveland, OH where there were many immigrant families
>> from eastern Europe, it was easy to find restaurants that were either
>> in whole or in part ethnic in their cuisine. Typical were Polish,
>> Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, German, etc. There are many
>> crossover dishes that have either slightly or completely different
>> names, but are very similar.
>>
> Whoops, apologies all round. Just got the book out and realised that the
> name was 'Pirozhki', little stuffed packages, deep fried. Or maybe they
> are a variation of the same thing? I don't know, but they sure look
> tasty ;-)
>
> We intend travelling around Eastern Europe as soon as we've had our fill
> of The Netherlands and Germany. There's just not enough time to take it
> all in.

IIRC, Don, Pirozhki is the Russian version of similar dishes of many
nationalities. I believe Pirozhki are almost always filled with meat
and/or mushrooms. Victor Sack could tell you about that.

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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