11/21/2012:
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- Malgosia & Daniel
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- William
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- Kelly & William
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11/22/2012 (Thanksgiving):
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- Thanksgiving Dinner — in attendance, our hosts, Hania & Lee; Alina; Sarah & her friend Wil; Krysia & Pawel; Marek, Kelly & William; Rysio & Stephanie; Malgosia, John & Daniel; Tadziu & his friend Pat; Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann & Irma Levine
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- Thanksgiving Dinner — in attendance, our hosts, Hania & Lee; Alina; Sarah & her friend Wil; Krysia & Pawel; Marek, Kelly & William; Rysio & Stephanie; Malgosia, John & Daniel; Tadziu & his friend Pat; Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann & Irma Levine
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- Lee’s Mom, Irma Levine; Daniel & his Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann; and Daniel’s & William’s Babcia Krysia
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- Daniel & his Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann
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- Daniel & his Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann
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- Daniel & his Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann
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- Daniel & his Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann
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11/24/2012 (Pierniki Day):
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- Preparations for the annual baking of Pierniki; this year, at Hania’s & Lee’s house
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- Ingredients
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- Sprinkles & decorations
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- Pierniki recipe, from Babcia Krysia’s cookbook. This recipe was received from Pra-Babcia Irene Kostro, who invented the recipe in Argentina, based on her memory of what she and her sister baked years earlier in Poland.
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- The organizing committee, hard at work
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- Machinery
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- Choosing cookie cutters for this year’s Pierniki
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- Rollers, etc.
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- Pre-work breakfast
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- And so it begins — a grueling day, that starts at 8 am, and will not end ’till about 9 pm (actually, this first batch was mixed the previous evening, so that baking could start immediately, as additional batches were mixed in the morning)
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- Krysia, Alina, Pra-Babcia & Hania
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- Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann, Daniel, William & Marek
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- William & Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann
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- William baking Pierniki
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- Marek teaching William
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- Kelly, William & Marek
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- Kelly, Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann, William & Marek
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- Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann, Babcia Krysia & Daniel
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- Rysio in the foreground; Marek, William & Lee in the background
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- Marek & Babcia Krysia
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- Many, many got baked — OVER 3,000.
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- As far as the eye could see
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- Shapes for every taste
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- Casualties of the baking process
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- Shapes for every taste
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- Shapes for every taste
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- Shapes for every taste
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- Geography lesson — can you find YOUR town within New Jersey
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- These were NOT baked by, nor approved by the organizing committee; but, somehow, they got passed by quality control (see what happens when you let men bake Pierniki?!)
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- Reaping the benefits
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- Malgosia, Stephanie & Hania in the background
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- Some of the men, discussing how to make the process different NEXT year. This years “Pierniki Day” participants were: Pra-Babcia Irena Neumann; Babcia Krysia; Hania; Malgosia; Alina; Sarah; Marek; Rysio; Kelly; Stephanie; Lee; John; Sarah’s friend Will; William; Daniel; & part-time chauffeur Pawel.
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- William & Marek
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- Daniel — exhausted after such a hard day
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