In article >,
Ian MacLure > wrote:

> 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.

The Tibetans have momo. I visited a castle in Eastern Slovakia where
the Turks had been long time ago. And the Vikings were in what's now
the Czech Republic -- all those blonde Czechs came from somewhere,
doncha know. :-)
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