Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information

Subject: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 03:38 PM

I posted a song that mentions a kugel in another thread. This one is a potato kugel, but my idea of kugels in general is that they are not-very-glorified macaroni and cheese. I'm wondering if there are other songs about kugele, and if anyone has interesting recipes.
-Joe-

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Here's the song:

Thread #10884   Message #1035138
Posted By: Joe Offer
14-Oct-03 - 02:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bread and Gravy
Subject: DTADD: Bulbes (Yiddish)


There's a well-known Yiddish song that follows the same pattern:

BULBES (POTATOES)

Zuntik - bulbes
Montik - bulbes
Dinstik un mitvokh - bulbes
Donershtik un fraytik - bulbes
Shabes in a novene - a bulbe-kugele
Zuntik - vayter bulbes!

Broyt mit bulbes
Fleysh mit bulbes
Varemes un vetshere - bulbes
Ober un vider - bulbes
Eyn mol in a novene - a bulbe-kugele
Zuntik - vayter bulbes!

Sunday-potatoes, Monday-potatoes, Tuesday and Wednesday-potatoes, Thursday and Friday-potatoes. But on Saturday for a change-a potato pudding! Sunday-potatoes again.
Bread with potatoes, meat with potatoes, morning and evening-potatoes, over and again-potatoes. One time for something new, a potato pudding. Sunday-potatoes again.

Source: Mir Trogn a Gezang, Eleanor Gordon Mlotek, 1972.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 04:16 PM

Hmmm. In Milwaukee where I grew up, kugel was made from noodles, mild cheese or sour cream and a little sugar. You cooked the noodles, mixed in the diary products and sugar, and baked it.

(I confess I never cared for it.)

Sorry, I never heard any songs that mention it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 04:33 PM

Kugel is 'ball' in German, and refers to balls of noodle dough encased around something or other.

This recipe sounds pretty good, I think I will try it.

Fruit noodle pareve

8 oz. (250g) wide egg noodles
3-4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cup Canned fruit pieces, well-drained.
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup or more cornflakes

Boil noodles al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water. Add beaten eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and fruit.
Place in mediun-sized casserole dish'
Crush cornflakes and sprinkle evenly over kugel
Bake, uncovered, for 1+ hours at 350 F.

I will use butter rather than margarine, and sprinkle with crushed shortbread (cornflakes-ugh!). We get a lot of fruit year-round now, so I will use it rather than the canned stuff.

This may make it non-kosher, but I am not Jewish.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 04:38 PM

Eine Kugel eis- a scoop of ice cream.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 09:01 PM

All the kugele I've had were pretty bland. I was raised on Kraft macaroni and cheese, and Kraft tasted a whole lot better than the kugele I've had as an adult. But the Wikipedia Article makes it sound like kugele are absolutely delicious.
Hmmmm. I wonder how many packages of Kraft macaroni and cheese my parents used to feed a family with five kids. Maybe they served Kraft only on the nights they went out to eat.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 10:30 PM

If there's a song about kugel, it might be on Shelley Posen's CD, Manna:

MANNA
A tsimmes of Shelley originals, funny and sad, about Jewish food, family and festivals. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll run to the fridge.

Are kugel at all like varnitshkes? There's a trad Yiddish song about those.

Subject: ADD: Varnitschkes (dumplings)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 01:43 AM

Well, here are the lyrics to "Varnitschkes," posted at Zemerl. One Website gave "bowties" as a translation for Varnitschkes, but this video recording says they're like German Knödeln (dumplings).
There are two audio recordings here (click).

-Joe-

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VARNITSCHKES

Gevald! Vu nemt men?
A lokshnbret tsu katshen di varnitshkes?
On heyvn un on shmalts,
On fefer un on zalts,
Oy, a lokshnret tsu katshen di varnitchkes!

Gevald! Vu nemt men?
Mel oyf tsu makhn di varnitshkes?
On heyvn un on shmlats,
On fefer un on zalts,
Oy, mel oyf tsu makhn di varnitchkes!

Gevald! Vu nemt men?
A katshelke tsu katshen di varnitchkes?
On heyvn un on shmlats,
On fefer un on zalts,
Oy, a katshelke tsu katshen di varnitchkes!

Gevald! Vu nemt men?
A tepl oyf tsu kokhn di varnitches?
On heyvn un on shmalts,
On fefer un on zalts,
A tepl oyf tsu kokh di varnitshkes!

Gevald! Vu nemt men?
Vu nemt men, vu nemt men -
A bokher oyf tsu esn di varnitshkes?
On heyvn un on shmalts,
On fefer un on zalts,
Oy, a bokher oyf tsu esn di varnitchkes!
Vu nemt men?

TRANSLATION:
(from Songs of Generations: New Pearls of Yiddish Song, bu Eleanor & Joseph Mlotek, page 122 (Workmen's Circle)

Oh, help, where can I get one?
Where can I get one?
Where can I get one?
A (wooden) noodle board to roll out the dumplings?
Without any hears, without any fat;
Without any pepper and without any salt.
Oh, a noodle board to roll out the dumplings!

1. A (wooden) noodle board to roll out the dumplings?
   
2. A knife to cut the dumplings?
   
3. A pot to cook the dumplings?
   
4. A young man to eat the dumplings?

MIDI available upon request - but I'm tired tonight.

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And one more version, from hebrewsongs.com:

Gevalt, vu nemt men a, vu nemt men... Vu nemt men mel af makhn di varnitshkes Vu nemt men mel af makhn di varnitshkes. On heyvn un on zalts, on fefer un on shmalts, Vu nemt men mel af makhn di varnitshkes. Gevalt, vu nemt men a, vu nemt men... A lokshnbret af katshn di varnitshkes, A lokshnbret af katshn di varnitshkes. On heyvn un on salts, on fefer un on shmalts, A lokshnbret af katshn di varnitshkes. Gevalt, vu nemt men a, vu nemt men... An oyvn af tsu bakn di varnitshkes, An oyvn af tsu bakn di varnitshkes. On heyvn un on salts, on fefer un on shmalts, An oyvn af tsu bakn di varnitshkes. Gevalt, vu nemt men a, vu nemt men... Gevalt, vu nemt men a, vu nemt men... Vu nemt men, vu nemt men a bokher, A bokher af tsu esn di varnitshkes. Az ikh bin aleyn on salts, on fefer un on shmalts, A bokher af tsu esn di varnitshkes.

Help, where does one get (2) Flour to make the Varnitshkes? Flour to make the Varnitshkes? Without yeast and without salt, without pepper and without fat, Where does one get the flour to make the Varnitshkes? Help, where does one get (2) A board to roll out the Varnitshkes? A board to roll out the Varnitshkes? Without yeast and without salt, Without pepper or fat, A board to roll out the Varnitshkes. Help, where does one get (2) An oven in which to bake the Varnitshkes? An oven in which to bake the Varnitshkes? Without yeast and without salt, Without pepper or fat, An oven in which to bake the Varnitshkes. Help, where does one get (2) Help, where does one get (2) A young man, To eat the Varnitshkes? If I myself have no salt, pepper or fat, A young man to eat the Varnitshkes!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 05:40 PM

There's also a recording of Di Varnitshkes by the Australian band Klezmania on their album, Oystralia, but they don't have lyrics or recordings online.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 06:32 AM

There are three songs on the Posen CD that mention kugel. Es Gezunt! has a stanza that starts,

If Jews had been meant to be athletes and jocks
We'd have never been tempted by kugel

Sheyne Ponim begins,

Sheyne Ponim is mayn meydl
Makes my head spin like a dreydl
She's my kugl, I'm her kneydl
Such a sheyne ponim

So How Come You Don't Have Tongue? has a line,

You've got kneydelakh and kugel for the spendthrift and the frugal

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: GUEST,Guest, LL
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 09:27 PM

I don't know about songs mentioning kugel. I grew up eating kugel, but it it not macaroni and cheese, my german (jewish) grandmother made it. It was a large round hard 'dumpling' that went in the soup and she sliced it up and everyone got a slice in the bowl of soup. By the was it was good! I wish I had the recipe!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: bobad
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 10:28 PM

Guest LL - That sounds like a Matzoh ball to me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kugel songs, recipes, and information
From: open mike
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 02:10 AM

recipe sites here:

http://allrecipes.com//Recipes/holidays-and-events/hanukkah/kugel/Main.aspx

http://recipes.kaboose.com/classic-potato-kugel.html

http://www.familyoven.com/recipes/search?terms=Vegetable%20Kugel