Savtas Savories
Recipes and implements for serving.
Soup Ladle
USA
Jennifer S
My great-grandmother, Pearl Barbash Pollack held Passover seders at her apartment. Her famous dish was her matzoh ball soup and she served it with this ladle.
She was a big part of our family, so we use this ladle to serve my mom’s matzoh ball soup when we have a seder at our house.
Cookbook
Long Island, NY
Rebecca T
This Cookbook was passed down from my great-grandmother to my mother Rebecca T.
We use a lot of recipes from it.
Soup Ladle
The Netherlands
Judith Barendse
Right before the war my great-grandparents were married. For their wedding they bought some silver items. This hallmarked silver ladle was one of them.
They knew the war was coming, so they gave the items to a silver shop, and asked them to hide them. After the war they retrieved the items.
We use the ladle to spoon soup into bowls continuing a tradition in our family from generation to generation.
Sugar Cube Container and Photograph
Vienna, Austria
Deborah A
This artifact belonged to my great-great-grandparents who lived in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 they fled Europe with my great-grandmother, great-grandfather and my grandma. They moved to Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe. Twenty years later the family moved to South Africa. In the 1980’s my mother Deborah A moved to New York and her grandmother gave her the sugar container.
It is significant because like the family it has moved 3 continents, Europe, Africa and America and has survived. It is personally significant to me, because when I was born my grandmother asked my mother to give me the Hebrew name Miriam, after the original owner.