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A. Varesano interviewing Anne Timko -19- 7/19/72
Tape 22-2

of foods is supposed to be eat.
AV: Well, I heard something similar to that, too. But why do they call it Holy Supper?
AT: I can't tell you why, what was the reason it was Holy Supper. It was Christmas Eve supper.
AV: When did you eat it?
AT: The day before Christmas.
AV: What time?
AT: Well, it depended. Any time at all. But it had to be in evening, you know.
AV: It was after you fasted the entire day?
AT: The entire day, yes. It was strict fast all day. And then, in the evening...Some of them even in the evening now, that you see sometimes in the paper, what St. Michael's from Hazleton, the Ukrainians, they have a little different custom, but its a Catholic, also. And they wouldn't even eat, for Holy Supper, they wouldn't eat buttered things. You know, if was without butter. I clipped out of the paper one time, and I had it for the longest time - I think I threw it away - because I liked the idea, you know, the way the put it in the paper, there, from, see, around Christmastime they would get it, almost every year they have it in the paper. Around Eastertime and for Christmas, the custom from St. Michael's Church, the Ukrainian church. But I haven't got it now. The different, well, they used to call some kind of wheat they uesd to have, with honey, and, now, what the world did the call the others? They were from red beets. Borscht, I think they used to call it. It was like soup or something. I never ate that, I don't know what it was. But this borscht, they used to call it, they'd make it from red beets, or from red beets' leaves, or something. You cook it, and how you make that, I don't know, because we didn't do that.