Luke and Sandy, Opl~atek is pronounced oh pwa tek opl~atki is pronounced oh pwat kee Debbie Luke McGarry wrote: > Sandy, > I took the survey, but did not save it. It asked many questions about how > we celebrate Christmas--foods, customs, etc. > As a matter of fact, I need to purchase today my Oplatki (as it is printed > on the package I buy, but not how it is pronounced), usually from the local > Christian religious store. Many churches will make it available, too. In > the package are usually three white wafers and one pink wafer. These are > roughly 3x5 inches or 4x6 inches, I forget. The pink one is usually used to > share with animals, but I've shared it with family for years before I knew > that. :-) Sometimes I get two packages depending upon how many are > attending. I try to break each wafer into 4-5 smaller pieces. > > How I use this is follows. My daughter usually determines how many attend > our Christmas Eve dinner and then she breaks the wafers into that many > pieces onto a decorative serving tray. When all the guests have arrived, we > go thru our customary cocktail hour and when dinner is finally ready, we > gather everyone and distribute the wafers. Then I or my 84 year old mother > will lead the group in a prayer of thanksgiving or grace. Then the fun > begins. Each person finds another person, breaks off a small piece of wafer > from the other's, eats the small piece, then wishes the other a Merry > Christmas--usually with a kiss or handshake. From there, you continue doing > this until each person has been greeted by each other person. This is a > moment when no previous ill feelings should be allowed. It only takes about > 10 minutes at our house with 22-32 guests. Then dinner is served. > > I remember this custom being done only by my mother and I continue it. I > believe my children will continue it, too. > > Merry Christmas! > > Luke S. McGarry

Thanks, that's what I thought, but it was better that I left the phonetics to someone better. Luke S. McGarry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Debbie Greenlee Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [POLAND] Oplatek was Poland Cemetery Transcriptions Luke and Sandy, Opl~atek is pronounced oh pwa tek opl~atki is pronounced oh pwat kee Debbie Luke McGarry wrote: > Sandy, > I took the survey, but did not save it. It asked many questions about how > we celebrate Christmas--foods, customs, etc. > As a matter of fact, I need to purchase today my Oplatki (as it is printed > on the package I buy, but not how it is pronounced), usually from the local > Christian religious store. Many churches will make it available, too. In > the package are usually three white wafers and one pink wafer. These are > roughly 3x5 inches or 4x6 inches, I forget. The pink one is usually used to > share with animals, but I've shared it with family for years before I knew > that. :-) Sometimes I get two packages depending upon how many are > attending. I try to break each wafer into 4-5 smaller pieces. > > How I use this is follows. My daughter usually determines how many attend > our Christmas Eve dinner and then she breaks the wafers into that many > pieces onto a decorative serving tray. When all the guests have arrived, we > go thru our customary cocktail hour and when dinner is finally ready, we > gather everyone and distribute the wafers. Then I or my 84 year old mother > will lead the group in a prayer of thanksgiving or grace. Then the fun > begins. Each person finds another person, breaks off a small piece of wafer > from the other's, eats the small piece, then wishes the other a Merry > Christmas--usually with a kiss or handshake. From there, you continue doing > this until each person has been greeted by each other person. This is a > moment when no previous ill feelings should be allowed. It only takes about > 10 minutes at our house with 22-32 guests. Then dinner is served. > > I remember this custom being done only by my mother and I continue it. I > believe my children will continue it, too. > > Merry Christmas! > > Luke S. McGarry ********************************* Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at [email protected] ---------------------------------- Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. ---------------------------------- Browse the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots Search the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message