GEFILTE FISH

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Gefilte Fish in America | My Jewish Learning: A history of the Jewish fish product.

Gefilte Fish, Fried to Perfection: Americans are notorious for consuming fried foods, including the recent trend of deep-frying the Thanksgiving turkey. Yet our affair with hot oil has never spilled over into the realm of gefilte fish, much to the chagrin of Jews across the Atlantic.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: gefilte fish is a dish made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish . traditionally served as an appetizer by Ashkenazi Jewish households . popular on Shabbat and Jewish Holidays such fish fillets are ground with eggs and sometimes onion, bread or matza crumbs, and spices or salt, carrot and potato . gefilte fish is traditionally cooked in large logs and then sliced for serving carrot is not served with spicy gefilte fish made with ground black pepper instead of carrot and potato . due to the previous general poverty of the Jewish population, an economical recipe may have included matza meal or bread crumbs gefilte fish (Polish: karp po ydowsku) is a traditional dish to be eaten on Christmas Eve and Holy Saturday . this follows a pattern in which a number of Jewish dishes gefilte fish is also sold frozen in “logs” a dish prepared from several fish varieties brings good luck . in: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale University Press, 2008, p MyJewishLearning Claudia Roden: “Gefilte Fish and the Jews”. Jewish Heritage Online Magazine Haym Soloveitchik: “Rupture and Reconstruction. The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy”. Tradition, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 1994).