[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Christmas customs of Volhynians?

[Marlo50]

Bill,  All your memories are very familiar and I want you to know I was 
raised in a Hungarian house and do not make the poppy seed Kalach either 
because they ARE too much trouble.  I'm with your wife.
Margaret


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Fife" <wmfife at telus.net>
To: <rlyster at telusplanet.net>
Cc: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Christmas customs of Volhynians?


>I guess many of our Christmases were similar.
>
> We would attend church on Christmas eve and then go home to a decorated
> tree.  Always wondered why my father did not attend church that evening.
>
> We also celebrated Christmas Eve, with one gift each.  Although we now 
> have
> turkey at Christmas, we still have a large dish of Holopchi (cabbage 
> rolls)
> on the table.  We make them with ground beef and pork mixed with the rice.
> No toothpicks, just roll them up and poke each end in with a finger.
>
> Although I love the old poppy seed Kuchen I have a hard time getting my 
> wife
> to make it.  Got a good recipe for it from Otto Schienke a couple of years
> ago.  My wife says it too much trouble.  Guess that is what I get for
> marrying an English girl rather then a German one :)
>
> Bill Fife
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <rlyster at telusplanet.net>
> To: <GVLESS at aol.com>
> Cc: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Christmas customs of Volhynians?
>
>
>> We celebrated Christmas Eve...all would hurray and finish chores so we
>> could
>> gather.  Traditonal supper was Holopchi (German cabbage rolls with ground
>> beef
>> and rice..very large and held together with toothpicks).  We gathered
>> around
>> the Christmas tree and my mother would read Luke 2.  We would sing
>> Christmas
>> carols especially "O Du Froliche" and "Stille Nacht" and then open our
>> presents....usually just one thing.  When we got older and bought each
>> other
>> gifts, then there were more.  As the years went by, we adopted the
>> Canadian
>> traditon of turkey and stuffing on Christmas day.
>>
>> One other yearly seasonal treat was poppy seed loaf....a yeast dough with
>> ground, cinnamon seasoned poppy seed rolled up and baked....yummmmm.
>>
>> Rita Lyster
>>
>>
>> Quoting GVLESS at aol.com:
>>
>>> It is the holiday season and thought it could be interesting if some on
>>> this
>>>
>>> listserv could share their family customs that could have originated in
>>> Volhynia.  I have often wondered if some who had their German origins of
>>> course,
>>> but did some customs come to our families from Poland as well as
>>> Volhynia
>>> itself?  I have seen many written up for our Volga GR's (which  helped 
>>> me
>>> put
>>>
>>> some substance to my Volga grandparents history) but have not any  clue
>>> if my
>>>
>>> husband's parents had some different customs because they were born  in
>>> Volhynia
>>> but whose grand parents had been in Poland before arriving in  Volhynia.
>>> Are
>>>
>>> any of you interested in sharing?  Would love to hear  it.
>>>
>>> Virginia Less
>>> Researcher for Bergstraesser/Vogel & Less/Fischer (husband's Volhynian
>>> ancestral lines)
>>> and for Glantz/Yost & Krahmer/Fradrich (my Volga and German ancestral
>>> lines)
>>>
>>>
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