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Birmoilis (Turkish)

A historical recipe from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919).

A historical recipe

The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc., by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #12350.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12350 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Turkey. Associated with Turkey by its title says: Turkish (confidence 0.7). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Method

  1. Take some mashed potatoes, grated cheese, well-beaten eggs;
  2. make a good paste, take tablespoonfuls of this mixture and drop in boiling oil;
  3. fry until brown.
  4. Serve with a syrup made of sugar and water.