Chremslach? | Imamother

Seraph

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 4:18 am

What on earth are chremslach? I've been hearing this word a TON lately and I dont know what it is. Is it latkes? If so, why do we need two yiddish words for the same thing?

shvigs

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 5:17 am

In my lexicon they're mashed potato latkes- cooked and mashed potatos, mixed with eggs and spices and fried.
That said, I've seen recipes for chremslach that look like matzoh meal latkes- matzo meal mixed with eggs, spices or sugar etc. and fried.

RachelEve14

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 5:33 am

My MIL makes them. YUM. Matza meal, an egg, not sure what else. It's a fried pancake. YUM.

Seraph

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 5:46 am

so whats the difference between that and latkes?

RachelEve14

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 6:46 am

The ones my MIL makes don't have potato in them at all. It's just matza mean, an egg, some sugar, and maybe oil. I really can't remember exactly. I think of latkas as potato, but maybe that's just me.

ss321

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 6:51 am

its like fried mashed potatoes with spices. latkes are like fried potato kugel. that is how I look at it. personally I like latkes 100x more. but to each their own

mommalah

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 7:58 am

pot kugel uses raw potatoes and chremslach uses cooked potatoes!

realeez

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 8:34 am

Latkes are for Chanukah and Chremslach are for Pesach Very Happy

. We make chremslach with matzo meal.

Fabulous

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 10:01 am

it's funny because even though growing up my family ate gebrokts, we never put matza meal in chremslach. Only mashed potatoes, eggs, salt and pepper. Maybe a tiny bit of potato starch too.

Mishie

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 10:35 am

So, are the potato chremslach sweet or salty?

Fabulous

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 10:36 am

salty like latkes.

We sometimes used real mashed potatoes with sauteed onions and a bit of oil in it already for the mixture. YUM!

Seraph

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 12:39 pm

Funny. We apparently had chremslach on chanuka in my family. Sometimes grated raw potatoes, but mainly our latkes were fried mashed potatoes with onion, flour, egg, and salt.

Tapuzi

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 1:06 pm

We call them bibalabulkalach. Anyone else?

Fabulous

Tue, Apr 07 2009, 1:10 pm

Tapuzi wrote:

We call them bibalabulkalach. Anyone else?

No, but a friend of the family calls them bubalach. (dunno why)