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Aunt Weissman used to prepare each Thursday food for the poor people – she was from a well-off family.
A cook helped her, and the poor people who knew her, came there to take a food portion. My aunt used to prepare a lot of griddles with maize flour – I can remember these particularly. In Moldova we prepare this meal even today. You steep the flour, you put cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs. It is a delicious cake. And my aunt had some large griddles for 30 portions.
She used to put the griddles in the oven. Barely had she finished a griddle, she had to put the next one, for people kept coming for food. Each person got one portion for each member of the family.
I know that many people were coming, because she was saying: “I prepared another griddle, another one…” All that day long, all Thursday, she used just to prepare food. There were a lot of poor people in this region.
A cook helped her, and the poor people who knew her, came there to take a food portion. My aunt used to prepare a lot of griddles with maize flour – I can remember these particularly. In Moldova we prepare this meal even today. You steep the flour, you put cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs. It is a delicious cake. And my aunt had some large griddles for 30 portions.
She used to put the griddles in the oven. Barely had she finished a griddle, she had to put the next one, for people kept coming for food. Each person got one portion for each member of the family.
I know that many people were coming, because she was saying: “I prepared another griddle, another one…” All that day long, all Thursday, she used just to prepare food. There were a lot of poor people in this region.
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Location
Iasi
Romania
Interview
Rosa Kaiserman