Margaret, noodles with sugar and crushed walnuts was always my favorite dessert. Tatjana In a message dated 4/27/2005 12:05:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: [CROATIA-L] family discussion Date: 4/27/2005 12:05:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] (Jerome Buza) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Bill, if we ever get to the Efes to meet and have dinner with our spouses, I would love to buy one of those books from you. I am sure that my brother and I would enjoy it. My mom's dad was a DonauSchwaben and a fisherman on the Danube and made fishing nets. It was not easy work and he didn't want to do that all his life. He fished once in America, but for fun. I didn't hear his tales as he died when I was 2 1/2 years old and I only remember things my mom would say over the years. Once in America, I don't know what he did in Philadelphia, while Grandma ran the rooming house and tended to the children, but in Detroit he worked in the auto industry, for Hupmobile Corp. They both never saw their families again. Grandma was ready to go for a visit when they got word that someone had died and she stayed here. My mother and dad were the only ones to get over to Dalj and Semic to visit and went to Graz and saw a grave of one of the ancestors. I know from my grandmothers recipes that they didn't eat a lot of meat in Europe, but did enjoy chickens and made lots of noodles. We even ate left over noodles with warm milk and sugar and thought we had died and went to heaven. Thank you for your stories. Margaret ----- Original Message -----