South Broad Street Import Store, The Burg
Here is John Bajzeth of the South Broad Street Import
Store on 849 South Broad Street in the Burg. This
picture is from 1965. The store is still there today
I think:)
3 years ago
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I am pretty sure that is where I did the annual "run" for my Mom and Grandmother at Christmas and Easter.
There was a particular poppy seed blend the carried and some prune stuff for lekvar cookies.
The poppy roll they baked was odd and I remember it coming they wrapped and "cured" it in cheesecloth. That, is something you would be hard pressed to find today yet it was common in cooking in the 1950's good old "cheesecloth" which is much like gauze.
Skip
There would have been no holiday baked goodies without Import Store, those and the smelly dried mushrooms. It was like a mushroom gravy that adds old gym socks but you had to "eat a polite portion".
Mack: My grandmother and I visited that store many times, buying lekvar and other ethnic stuff. Skip I remember the cheese cloths, she made a special cheese at Easter and kept it in the basement till Easter Sunday. I wish I had a piece today.
I remember going to the Hungarian store at holiday time c my mom. There she would get walnuts, lekvar, poppy seed, apricot etc. to make long nut rolls, lekvar, apricot & poppy seed etc. Also, I remember my Mom making a ball of egg yokes in cheesecloth and hanging it in the basement with a bucket so it could drip. This was usually at Easter.
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