[Sca-cooks] Yonah Shimmel's

[Martin G. Diehl]

"Mark S. Harris" wrote:
> 
> Adamantius mentioned:
> > Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
> > > I thought this venerable institution might have been 
> > > a thing of mere memory. But Google turned up:
> > >
> > > Since 1910
> > > Yonah Shimmel's Knishery
> > > 1-212-477-2858
> > > LOWER EAST SIDE
> > > 137 E. Houston, btwn 1st & 2nd Ave
> > > http://knishery.com/
> >
> > > Anahita
> > > not planning on ordering Yonah Shimmel's knishes on-line
> >
> > It looks like YS may have simply licensed the name, and 
> > maybe the recipes, which can be adapted to some extent 
> > for mass production. And that's fine for people who 
> > don't have other options, but this may not mean that 
> > the knishes at Schimmel's have changed much.  

> So, what *is* a "knish"? 

[snip]

> Are these stuffed biscuits? Or something more like a 
> stuffed potato pancake or dumpling? 
> This is a traditional Jewish food, right?
> 
> Stefan

Nu? ... "So, what's a knish", he says ... 

Here is a way to make them ... 

"Yonah Schimmel New York City Knish Recipe" 
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/534/Yonah_Schimmel_New_York_City_Knish35191.shtml

Size wise, they are between a dumpling and a biscuit 
(or large biscuit, as you wish).  

I recall reading a NYTimes article sometime in the 1960's 

There had been a march and demonstration against some ... 
in truth, I don't have a certainty about what.  As I can 
best recall, the march went through the Lower East Side.  

There, " ... knishes were thrown." 

The reporter added, "Fortunately no one was hurt as 
knishes are harmful only when taken internally."  

I include this not as a warning about knishes, but more 
as a warning of what passes for humor in NY -- in the 
Times, even yet.  

Oh, you want you should know about "nu" -- later ask.  

Vincenzo

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