Five Decades Together . . . and Ukrainian Garlic Bread

Wes Leschasin married Marion Bantrock on October 29, 1939.    They had two sons and farmed in the Pleasant Valley district in Manitoba for 40 years.

Thank you, Marilyn, for sharing these pictures of  

Uncle Wes and Aunt Marion's                

50th Wedding Anniversary!

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Marta Pisetska Farley’s very interesting essay in FESTIVE UKRAINIAN COOKING includes this comment:

“Much of the symbolism in feasting was centered on ritual breads.”

In RUSSIAN COOKING, I found the comment that “a girl should be able to sift flour before she can walk and knead bread before she can talk”. 

In the same book:

“The Frenchman Honoré de Balzac, who visited the Ukraine in the 1840s, noted, with proper French respect: ‘I counted 77 ways of making bread.”

Here’s one of those fantastic breads!

Ukrainian Garlic Bread (Pampushky)

Recipe on p. 42 of MAMUSHKA, a Cookbook by Olia Hercules

Ask for the book at your library.  

It's also available online for a very reasonable price.

Bryan says the buns weren't hard to make.

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 Here's Marilyn who knows the importance of sharing special moments.