WELCOME TO THIS REMEMBERING PLACE! Memories of recipes are much the same as genealogy or the fish stock of politics.
Genealogy research is interesting, but the stories of harvesting and preserving of such had much more to offer. I pray that these thawed out recipes remain more sublime and extraordinary than the packaged and throw-away hedonism of today. Breakfasts and dinners were foods made in praise of our ancestral past, mostly in farming and remain strong, if subdued echoes in our present and short attention future.
In a Monsanto world, this is hard to do. Whale killing and factory based animal abuses are all foreign to me. We need to make changes, especially in the poisoning or leg trapping of wild animals. I grew up on a farm and learned to kill, skin and prepare an animal. (Much less to shuck corn, snap beans or make winter sauerkraut.) A friend was aghast that I could eat my livestock. I will explain: Perhaps this video link will help. Stick with it to the end and ask yourself, ‘What are you eating today?’ – and how can you object to a small farmer harvesting livestock raised on open range? Stop the spin on animal factory farming and contribute to the makers of that video.
In my sixties, I made a huge turnaround regarding meat. So Vegans are roundly invited to contribute their own recipes to this site. If you are channeling Rachael Ray or Martha Stewart this is not the site for you. If you need a laugh however go here.
My answer is to wipe out 75 percent of your meat intake and start learning LENTIL. Soy milk, soy protein. Vegetable smoothies, soybeans and brown rice might go far in preserving a planet population that will be three times the size of mine when I was born.
I have always respected history and the hardships that my parents and grandparents went through. I hope “The cellar” brings back a memory to at least one of my daughters.
We now have an increasing percentage of the nation on food stamps. ** Most of the unemployed then gathered at Hobo Camps, now the homeless simply hide. Please read my ending to ‘Smile.’ I also invite you to visit my rock and gardening sites. Please contribute your own recipes and stories. All credits will be given. The past has room in it for everyone. The present less so and as for the future, that becomes ever more questionable as one gets soylently older.
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I do remember my mother stressing the Schinnagl connections and that I had a priest in the family. Either in Hub/ B ad Tolz or Munich. I believe it was in Munich. Handsome guy!!!
I tried one time to connect with the (Prosperous apperantly) Schinnagl farm, winery/hotel … think there were two that popped up in my searches. Neither were willing to talk with me. Bluebloods vs. the emigrant part of the family tree.
(Schinagl) I The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 94 percent of Schinagl reside; 92 percent reside in Western Europe and 92 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently held in Austria, where it is held by 1,130 people, or 1 in 7,536. In Austria it is mostly concentrated in: Upper Austria, where 54 percent live… or in the USA where 3 percent live.
(Schoenberger) allowing for spellings!!! This surname is predominantly found in The Americas, where 87 percent of Schoenberger live; 80 percent live in North America and 80 percent live in Anglo-North America.
This surname is most numerous in The United States,… most numerous in: Pennsylvania, where 11 percent are found, California, where 8 percent are found and Ohio, where 7 percent are found.
(senft)This last name is most widespread in Germany, most numerous in: Bavaria, where 37 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 15 percent are found and Baden-Württemberg, where 9 percent are found. It is also found in The United States, where 30 percent are found and Canada, where 6 percent are found.
Actually, when I checked the phone books, there were more SENFTS in Vancouver B.C. than in Frankfurt Germany. The vagabonds of the bunch, whereas the Schinnagls were the stick at home, get rich part of the ancestry.
Kurt Astel is a relative on my grandmothers side, a Morgenstern that my grandfather married.
She lived in BRNO Czech and they moved to Komotov, Chomotau Czech on the Sudetenland border where they had Ernest Senft, my father and two other boys.
Joacham Astel, must have been a brother to her.
It also explains much about the WW11 German interest in my parents religion as she had to prove that they were Catholic
in so many ways. Questionable in some ways, as neither showed any respect or interest in the Church. Mind you, there were other reasons as well.
Most interesting being that the Church refused permission for my mother to marry someone from a higher social standing. This was before the war and the reason she left home and moved to America, only to return to take care of her parents just before WW11 broke out. The Gestapo, never trusted her and she had to provide weekly reports of her activity and whereabouts as she could have been a spy.
My mother lost all her money (not exportable) and her American citizenship in that asinine move. It was her duty to take care of her parents, as her other sisters claimed.
Both grandparents died, shortly after the mass expulsion of Sudeten Germans back to Germany. I cannot remember either, aside from my MOTHERS description that she had been the village herbalist. A plant lover, woodland herb gatherer.
Something that may have passed on to the generations later. As Kurt wrote:
Josefa knew her plants? Very interesting. Her daughter Anna, my grandmother, was planting trees in the woods. (As did I.)
Kurt Astel is a relative on my grandmothers side, a Morgenstern that my grandfather married.
She lived in BRNO Czech and they moved to Komotov, Chomotau Czech on the Sudetenland border where they had Ernest Senft, my father and two other boys.
Joacham Astel, must have been a brother to her.
It also explains much about the WW11 German interest in my parents religion as she had to prove that they were Catholic in so many ways. Questionable as neither showed any respect for the church. Both grandparents died shortly after the mass expulsion of Sudeten Germans back to Germany. I cannot remember either, aside from my MOTHERS description that she had been the village herbalist. A plant lover and woodland herb gatherer.
Something that may have passed on to the generations later. As Kurt wrote:
Josefa knew her plants? Very interesting. (Kurt) “Her daughter Anna, my grandmother, was planting trees in the woods…”
As did I
NOTE: Her daughter, Josefa Morgenstern was born on 22 May 1879, in Kremsier, Moravia, Austria. She married Ernst Senft. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 October 1957, in Leinburg, Nürnberger Land, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 78, and was buried in Leinburg, Nürnberger Land, Bavaria, Germany.