On May 11, 1:20*pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 10:18:23 -0700, "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds"
>
> > wrote:
> >when just a tad my mother would make a jewish recipe for what she said was cow
> >neck. was pronounced something like chalikal or khalikal or near that. was
> >boneless and a roast.
>
> >any hints on what it might be?
>
> This is a new one on me and I thought my mom used it all, including
> heart and lungs.
>
> The neck is bony and tough, and, rare as it is to find these days, *is
> generally braised or stewed. Neck bones were also used in soups.
>
> I do not recognize the Yiddish words, either, assuming that is what
> you thought your mother was using when she referred to the meat. If
> she was Sephardic or Middle-Eastern, she may have been using a
> language/term that I am not really familiar with, coming from
> Ashkenazim.
>
> I am hoping someone else comes up with the answer.
>
> Boron

In these days of spooky isolated occurrences of mad cow disease, I
wouldn't touch it if it included any spinal bits. Just sayin' .... I
wonder how careful the butchers are ....

N.