Czarnina (char-NEE-nah), czernina, and czarna polewka) is a classic Polish Duck Blood Soup. Many Coal Region folks will recognize it from childhood, either having had it, turned away from […]
Soups
Snapper Soup
My Dad adored snapper soup (yes, as in “snapping turtle”). He had many a bowl through the years during trips to the Philly area while […]
Liver Noodles or Leberknoedel
We Pennsylvania Dutch and Coal Region folk are a frugal lot. Not only do we use just about every inch of a butchered animal for […]
Old-fashioned Oyster Stew
My Dad LOVED soup. I think he could have eaten soup every day of the week. He insisted it be served steaming hot and was notorious […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Pretzel Soup (Shdreis’l Suppee)
This is a real Pennsylvania Dutch comfort food that goes way back, is inexpensive and easy to make, warms you up and is often eaten […]
Meatless Borscht (Red Beet Soup)
A twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper is traditionally prepared in many Central European and Northern European cultures, especially those that were formerly part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. Many modern age descendants of immigrants from […]