[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Breakfasts of our Ancestors

[margaret]

Thank you Virginia,  However this family was kind of on the poor side so 
they probably ate a little different.  Pilla
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Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Breakfasts of our Ancestors


>I will add something that is my files on my husband's great uncle, Dr. Paul
> Friedemann, about food in Volhynia.
>
> "Meals in Volhynia were much the same as they would later be for the
> Friedmann family when they came to Oklahoma.  Breakfast usually consisted 
> of sliced
> and salted hard-boiled eggs, bread and butter, and coffee.  Due to the 
> high cost
> of pure coffee, it was often stretched with chicory.  The coffee was 
> always
> boiled with
> the grounds in it.  Sugar was a real luxury because it was not generally
> available in Annette.  The Russian sweetener had been honey for more than 
> a
> thousand years.
> After breakfast there were four more meals each day.  There would be lunch
> and supper plus small repasts at ten o'clock in the morning and about 
> two-thirty
> in the afternoon.  These repasts consisted of tea and bread with honey or
> sugar.  This time was generally a time of conviviality and conversation. 
> It was
> considered good manners to drink hot tea from the saucer and everyone ate 
> with
> the left hand in the European manner."
>
> I could say much more about the other meals from this family history but 
> for
> now will just use the details on breakfast etc. as requested in the e-mail
> written above.
>
> The Friedemann family were somewhat well off when living in Annette,
> Volhynia.  Dr. Paul had received his medical education while in the 
> Russian army.
> When completing his service in 1889 he returned to Annette to open up a 
> practice
> there.  But by 1893 he decided to leave with his family and his parents to
> immigrate to Oklahoma where an older brother already had settled.
>
> I hope some of you have something to add to this query from Pilla of what 
> was
> a breakfast meal like, and I add whether in Volhynia and/or in Poland.
>
> Virginia Less
>
>
> Subj:   [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Breakfast meal
> Date:   1/28/2005 8:01:45 AM Central Standard Time
> From:   pillango at nwonline.net
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
>
> If this is not a proper subject for this list I understand, but we were
> discussing breakfast and very curious.
> My husband's parents were both born in Pommern, came to US at young age. 
> My
> father-in-law was born in 1878 and never touched milk that we saw, he put
> black coffee on his cereal.  We were wondering what was the usual 
> breakfast
> for the people at that time and place?
> Pilla
>
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