[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Plums = Lekvár!

[Otto]

Thank you Anna,
This is getting better!
Copper kettles!

My neighbor who distilled the polinka also cooked "LEKVAR", a real  
thick prune butter (like a paste) for baking pastries. (I cannot  
remember the Hungarian name for the pastries, eating 50 or so would  
satisfy)
(I bought his large copper kettle also)

Lekvár cooking is a Hungarian ritual just like drinking polinka.
(the two probably go well together)

See the Wikipedia article on Lekvár:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekvar

Now how did the custom get to the Wisla/Vistula/Weichsel valley?
Why a regional custom only?
Was it part of a past culture of someone?
How did it begin?
An Austrian/Hungarian settler?
Why is the cartographer calling attention to it?

The words of the American poet, Robert Frost,
“We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the  
middle and knows”

From: Anna Zglińska <zglinka at wp.pl>
Date: Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] More about plums
To: ger-poland-volhynia <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>


Hi ;)

More about plums:

In Niedrunger villages (lower Vistula) people makes plum jam- fried in
copper kettles, stired with very long wooden stirrer. This technic of
frying plum jam spread along Vistula River in the end of XIX and
begining of XX century.



. . .   Otto
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