In article >,
Don Gray > wrote:
> In message Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
> > Don Gray > wrote:
> > > > D.Currie wrote:
> > >
> > > 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'!
>
> Ah, now I gotya. It sounds just up my street. It's a bit of a devil sometimes
> sitting back and hearing about "local delicacies", then realising that they
> are actually traditional foods from our side of the pond.
>
> I've never had the opportunity to travel around some parts of Europe,
> particularly those which were under the influence of Russia but will be doing
> in the future, now that we're based in Belgium.
>
> Thanks for the help on the linguistic front. It's surprising how ignorant we
> can be about other people's customs and foods. I would guess that there are
> quite a few similarities between English and Slovak foods, seeing as we live
> in similar cold climates.
>
> I'm going to try pirohies
Not pirohies. Pirohy IS plural. Please get it right.
Not many similarities between English and Slovak food that I've seen.
The Slovak food is flavorful. "-)
Many cultures have similar foods -- most, I think, have a flat bread;
several have filled noodle-dough dumpling things; I know there are more,
but they're not coming to mind right now,
I've posted my recipes for pirohy dough and fillings more than once
here. If you google on that spelling, you're likely to turn up my
recipes. They're pretty good. The key is that you make them in the
only true and proper shape: triangular.
Where "my people" are (still) located was once ruled by the Hungarians.
My family lives in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains a bit north
of Humenne, Slovakia. VERY near the Polish border. The Poles there eat
similar foods - spelled different. Cabbage rolls (golabki/holubky),
pierogi/pirohy; others, too. Borders are political boundaries. :-)
Potatoes taste like potatoes. Cousin Maria has a hand with yeast dough
that I can only dream of. And she's cute, besides! Made her first
flight on an airplane at age 68 in 2000 to visit her American cousins.
Told her husband, who thought she was too old for it, "If I can climb
the ladder to get snow off the roof, I can get on a plane to go to
America." Go, Maria!
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