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  • Memories: Think of boiled whitefish in yoyech (soup), which settles into a jelly, or one of my favorites, gefilteh miltz or stuffed spleen ... grandma always removed the veins before frying it in, you guessed it, schmaltz, with bread crumbs, eggs, onions, salt and pepper.

    Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food! 2010

  • Maybe our friends out here got being good wifes and good housekeepers on the brain more as high kicking in New York; but just the same Mrs. Nathan Bamberger, what can buy and sell you three times over, ain't ashamed to go in her Lindell Avenue kitchen, when her husband or her son likes red cabbage, what you can't hire cooked, or once in a while a miltz. "

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

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