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The Nosher via JTA Youve heard of the wandering Jew, but have you heard of the wandering Jewish cookie?
As Jews move from country to country, they pick up recipes, spices and dishes along the way. Sometimes, even after a Jewish community is no more, their food remains, an echo of a world that once was. Such is the case of the Jewish cookie from Iceland.
Recently I learned of a cookbook, The Culinary Saga of New Iceland, Recipes From the Shores of Lake Winnipeg, compiled by Kristin Olafson Jenkyns, a writer with forbears from Iceland. Her book documents the history and culinary traditions of immigrants from Iceland who settled in North America at the end of the 19th century. Many of them moved to Manitoba, Canada, on Lake Winnipeg, where they formed a community that came to be known as New Iceland. In the section of the book titled Cakes and Cookies, following classic Icelandic foods such as skyr, smoked fish, and brown bread, are recipes for cookies traditionally eaten on Christmas. Their name in Icelandic is gyðingakökur, which translates to Jewish cookie.
How did Jewish cookies end up in a cookbook filled with the food of Icelandic immigrants to the New World? You can be sure that there werent many, if any, Jews among those settlers 150 years ago. Yet there are three recipes for Jewish cookies nestled between other traditional sweets like Vinarterta and ginger cookies.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/icelandic-jewish-cookies-a-dessert-with-a-fascinating-story-to-tell/amp/
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)FirstLight
(13,359 posts)When it cools down some, I will have to try these!
Behind the Aegis
(53,944 posts)At least some new people saw it. I think I may try them, despite not being a coffee person.
Mosby
(16,297 posts)Sorry though.