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Post by Jaga on Nov 21, 2006 16:06:44 GMT -7
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Post by bescheid on Nov 21, 2006 16:39:32 GMT -7
When you said compote, this drew a blank, one look at the url you have kindly provided, it hit on! Kompot! They {Russian families} made this in summer using apple and peach. It was really very good and refreshing at that...
Another drink that was with the Russians and Ukrainians {the few I knew} was black hot tea. The Russians would make it as a thick brew, then dilute it down to tast after that. This was good for the frosty winter weather. {sorry, off topic}.
Charles
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Post by Jaga on Nov 21, 2006 18:42:52 GMT -7
Charles,
did you ever try the compote? I never liked the sweet version (made of apples or pears or prunes), but I liked one from gooseberries which was a bit sour.
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Post by bescheid on Nov 21, 2006 19:44:06 GMT -7
Charles, did you ever try the compote? I never liked the sweet version (made of apples or pears or prunes), but I liked one from gooseberries which was a bit sour. It was the apple/peach what I tried. The apples were a mackintosh which are on the tart side any way. Then with the peach, it was very good. I had tried a sprinkle of cinnamon on one, but it just was not right. I never tried one with gooseberries though. There were huckleberry's, large and small raspberries and a type of dark red wild berry named {choke cherries} as this was a mountainous area {Castlegar British Columbia}. Then it was very populated with many Russian/Ukrainian Doukobours. This was in a high apple producing area and apples were just extremely common and if necessary, very inexpensive. A person was able to pick up windfalls under the trees once the picking people had passed through with out cost. Charles |
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Post by jimpres on Nov 22, 2006 6:16:32 GMT -7
We have compote here often usually of blueberries and strawberries.
Jim
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Post by suzanne on Nov 22, 2006 7:49:19 GMT -7
Jaga,
I've never heard of a compote that was a drink; to me, it's a stewed-fruit dessert, usually served warm, maybe with a little ice cream or whipped cream. My grandmother used to make a winter fruit compote with apples, raisins, pears, plums, prunes, and of course spices like cinnamon, and it was very good.
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scatts
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Post by scatts on Nov 22, 2006 13:32:07 GMT -7
I love kompot!
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 22, 2006 15:56:47 GMT -7
I like compote but as Suzanne always had it as a stewed fruit concoction. Usually it was with plums, apples, pears,peaches, raisins, sometimes rhubarb. We ate it in a dish but it was like a soup and to watery to put over icecream ....not like a rumtopf (?) which is thicker and aged and a spot of (choose your spirit) liqueor.
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Post by bescheid on Nov 22, 2006 17:08:43 GMT -7
I think perhaps it is the location of where a person may be. Suzanne had what we called: Rumtopf {just as Chris described} for a topping. We had the drink of what ever fruit {my favourite was apple and peach} that was made by boiling the fruit in water, placed in the cooler and drank cold.
The kompott was the pedistal dish for eating the desert covered with {hopefully rumtopf}.
In Germany, must be careful for the type of ears that are listioning. For slang for home cooked dope, is Kompot.
Charles
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 22, 2006 19:09:30 GMT -7
No Charles, My mom made the compote by boiling the fruit in water also but we eat with a spoon rather than drink it. Maybe because it was loaded with fruit that we ate it that way and the others maybe have less fruit and more juice. Rumtopf is made by letting it age in a glass jar and adding sugar and fermenting.
Chris
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Post by bescheid on Nov 22, 2006 20:28:08 GMT -7
Chris
With the rumtopf, we made it in a very large sourkraut crock. We packed up into it as much fruit of just about every type we had access to, packed it in layers with pour rum inbetween the layers and close it up. About once weekly, we pour about two or three cups of rum over the amount that had settled and kept it closed up untill done.
Did your family make it simular, or did they use a differrent method? I think the rum may have kept the topf from spoiling not sure actually. But, there were just a jillion varities of fruit packed into those things.
Charles
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zooba
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Post by zooba on Nov 23, 2006 1:04:18 GMT -7
Charles, in Poland "kompot" also means home made heroin for injections, usually made from illegally grown poppy.
The classic compote as Jaga describes it actually is, or in my family - used to be, typical drink at dinner.
I love hot black tea, I wouldn't touch cold black tea or ice tea either (too sweet). When i've caught a cold, I drink hot black tea with lemon and honey.
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Post by constantine on Nov 23, 2006 7:30:11 GMT -7
When you said compote, this drew a blank, one look at the url you have kindly provided, it hit on! Kompot! They {Russian families} made this in summer using apple and peach. It was really very good and refreshing at that... Kompot is used in Russian tradition as drinking at funeral banquet Another drink that was with the Russians and Ukrainians {the few I knew} was black hot tea. The Russians would make it as a thick brew, then dilute it down to tast after that. This was good for the frosty winter weather. {sorry, off topic}. Did you ever taste "KVAS" ? It's a real national soft-drink |
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Post by bescheid on Nov 23, 2006 8:19:20 GMT -7
When you said compote, this drew a blank, one look at the url you have kindly provided, it hit on! Kompot! They {Russian families} made this in summer using apple and peach. It was really very good and refreshing at that... Kompot is used in Russian tradition as drinking at funeral banquet Another drink that was with the Russians and Ukrainians {the few I knew} was black hot tea. The Russians would make it as a thick brew, then dilute it down to tast after that. This was good for the frosty winter weather. {sorry, off topic}. Did you ever taste "KVAS" ? It's a real national soft-drink Kvas, I am not sure if I have drank it. How is it made? Is this by chance, light brown in colour and made from rye? Because I am not sure. That is funny {well perhaps not that funny} kompot as a funeral drink. I did not know that. It is interesting how so wide spread this drink is {compote/kompott} and it is good. Charles |
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