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Mary Washko

This recipe was made up by Mary using her own judgement as to
the amount of ingredients.

Dumplings:

Beat four eggs with a little salt. Add enough flour to
form a stiff batter, not a dough. Have water boiling in a
pot. Take some stiff butter in a spoon and spread it on a
chopping board, spreading with a spoon. Hold board over a pot
and break off with a tablespoon pieces of batter into the
boiling water. Cook for five minutes. Raise heat while they
are boiling. Drain in colander. Serve with sweet cabbage or
caraway seed soup.

Sweet cabbage:

Chop cabbage, salt, and squeeze the water out. Fry it in
melted butter that has been browned with chopped onion. Fry
until it gets soft and brown.

Caraway seed soup:

Put two quarts of water in a pan. Add caraway seeds,
about two tablespoons. Boil till water gets brown from seeds.
Drain water into another pan, leaving one tablespoon in the
soup. Salt that and pepper to taste adding parsley and a bit
of celery. Make zaprashka. Add to water and cool five minutes.

Banana fritters:

Sift together one cup of flour and two teaspoons of baking
powder. Add one tablespoon of sugar, a half teaspoon of salt,
one egg well-beaten, a half cup of sweet milk. Mix and add
three ripe bananas, mashed fine and a teaspoon of lemon. Mix
all together, and it will be a thick batter.

Drop tablespoons into deep, hot fat. Fry golden brown on
both sides. Drain and serve with syrup or sauce or just plain.
This can also be made with creamed corn, using a pint can.
She used to make them when the children were small; she made
up the recipe.

Sausage with tomato sauce:

Fry your sausage till done and brown on both sides. Take
a pint of tomatoes and beat well. Drain the grease from the
sausage and put the tomatoes in with the sausage adding about
a half glass of water. Let boil till tomatoes are boiled apart
and then season with salt and pepper.

When done, thicken the tomatoes with one tablespoon of
cornstarch dissolved in a little cold water. Stir while it
boils for about five minutes. This gravy is good with bread
or poured over mashed potatoes. Fresh ("mangoes") (peppers) can
also be added. This she made up herself. It stretched the
food since the gravy was eaten with bread and mashed potatoes.