Victor Sack wrote:
> Margaret Suran > wrote:
>
>
>> Victor Sack wrote:
>>
>>> Ha! Tascheln/Tascherln/Taschkerln are usually made with a
>>> sweet filling (jam, especially Powidl, being typical) and are
>>> nearly always fried or baked, ergo being off-topic for this
>>> thread!
>>
>> Yes, there were Powidltaschkerln, but we had Krauttaschkerln,
>> Erdaepfeltaschkerln, Topfentaschkerln, too. Probably the
>> favorite ones in our family were Heidelbeertaschkerln. None were
>> ever fried, just boiled and served with Rahm, which is what we
>> called sour cream. Fried onions with the potato and cabbage ones.
>>
>
>
> Real Austrian Tascherln are fried or baked almost by default, even
> when they are savoury. You are describing Polish pierogi types,
> something cooked by your Teta, no doubt! Read Joseph Wechsberg
> instead. Here, behold his recipe from _The Cooking of Vienna's
> Empire_.

I never encountered a fried Taschkerl, until I came here and had some
in one of the many Dairy Restaurants in The Bronx. It took a while to
get used to that and I rarely ordered them that way.

These restaurants, abounding in Manhattan, as well, are all gone now,
with the Cafeterias and Automats and Pork Stores and Daitch Dairies
and so many other neighborhood businesses, like Notions Stores.

Up to that time, I had only eaten the ones made by my Teta, as you
easily guessed and she was Polish, so you are right about her cooking
style.
>
> Tascherln Viennese jam pockets

*Nice Recipe Snipped*

> Also behold this 100-year-old recipe at
> <http://www.naturverstand.at/rezepte/rezept_tip.php?auswahl=43>.
>
Teta made something like this, too, but not as a main dish. It was
meant as dessert and we called Baeckerei mit Marmelade. Pastry with
Jam. I thought it was made with Puff Pastry, but it may have been
Muerber Teig.

>> It's true, you know nothing about Taschkerln.
>
> You are nasty, Resi!

And you have become cruel ever since you changed into Bubba Vic.
Don't you know that Resi is my Evil Twin? She is laughing, while poor
Margaret cries. ( Where, oh where is gentle, kind Victor?
>
> Bubba