[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Breakfasts of our Ancestors

[GVLESS at aol.com]

I will add something that is my files on my husband's great uncle, Dr. Paul 
Friedemann, about food in Volhynia.

"Meals in Volhynia were much the same as they would later be for the 
Friedmann family when they came to Oklahoma.  Breakfast usually consisted of sliced 
and salted hard-boiled eggs, bread and butter, and coffee.  Due to the high cost 
of pure coffee, it was often stretched with chicory.  The coffee was always 
boiled with 
the grounds in it.  Sugar was a real luxury because it was not generally 
available in Annette.  The Russian sweetener had been honey for more than a 
thousand years.  
After breakfast there were four more meals each day.  There would be lunch 
and supper plus small repasts at ten o'clock in the morning and about two-thirty 
in the afternoon.  These repasts consisted of tea and bread with honey or 
sugar.  This time was generally a time of conviviality and conversation.  It was 
considered good manners to drink hot tea from the saucer and everyone ate with 
the left hand in the European manner."

I could say much more about the other meals from this family history but for 
now will just use the details on breakfast etc. as requested in the e-mail 
written above.

The Friedemann family were somewhat well off when living in Annette, 
Volhynia.  Dr. Paul had received his medical education while in the Russian army.  
When completing his service in 1889 he returned to Annette to open up a practice 
there.  But by 1893 he decided to leave with his family and his parents to 
immigrate to Oklahoma where an older brother already had settled.

I hope some of you have something to add to this query from Pilla of what was 
a breakfast meal like, and I add whether in Volhynia and/or in Poland.  

Virginia Less


Subj:   [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Breakfast meal    
Date:   1/28/2005 8:01:45 AM Central Standard Time  
From:   pillango at nwonline.net   
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org   

If this is not a proper subject for this list I understand, but we were
discussing breakfast and very curious.
My husband's parents were both born in Pommern, came to US at young age.  My
father-in-law was born in 1878 and never touched milk that we saw, he put
black coffee on his cereal.  We were wondering what was the usual breakfast
for the people at that time and place?
Pilla