Are those those crispy sweet very thin wafers. The Italians have something
like that too. I remember them from when I was little. My mother was
Polish.
E.
At 11:18 PM 12/21/2005, you wrote:
Hi:)
One we always did at Christmas was Christmas eve dinner. Before the meal everyone would get what was called A-poo-ah-tec. I don't know the spelling of that one. It was the thin wafers that would come in sheets with different Christmas scenes on them. We would each get a piece and then go around to everyone and take a small piece off theirs and they would take a piece of ours and eat it. At the same time we would make a wish for that person for the next year.
I think there was some real power in that because for about 18 months my husband and I at the time were trying to get me pregnant. Everyone that Christmas made the wish that we would give my Mom her first grandchild. Well, it must have happened that night or in the next couple of nights because Emily was born on October 4th and she was two weeks late.
Then we would have a dinner starting with creamed haring, followed by homemade polish sausage, homemade breads, rice with honey and lots of other little goodies. IT was always a very special day of the year.
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Lyssi,
My family isn't Eastern European, but that sounds like an interesting and yummy tradition. My aunt used to teach my siblings and her children German. She had spent a year and a half in what used to be West Germany serving a mission for our church. The same aunt also tried to teach us to sing and have an appreciation for classical music. Well, she taught us to sing three Christmas carols in German. We would go caroling to an older German woman we knew from church. She would gather all her friends together to hear us sing. Ruth Baker was one of the sweetest women I ever knew. My mother would always tell us not to expect to get anything from her, but Ruth never failed to give each of us a bag of cookies, a candy cane, and and an ornament. We performed for her ever year from 1984 to 1997. I missed our last performance because I was sick and breaking off and engagement at the same time. Kelly C knows what I am talking about. In 1998, Ruth was living in a nursing home and too sick to have all of us perform. I did go visit her that year. It was the last time I saw her. She passed away six months later, just before my wedding. That caroling is one of the most special memories I have of a Christmas tradition. Ruth would complement us that our German was so good, but I knew how much it sucked. We added other carols in English and Spanish, but we always sang the German ones. To this day, I cannot sing the first verse of Silent Night in English. I know it, but the German is so ingrained in me. It bugs everyone else. Thank you for letting me share.
Kasondra Payne
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