OK everyone.....settle down

First the deffinition:

[geh-FIHL-teh]
This popular Jewish dish consists of ground fish (usually CARP, PIKE or WHITEFISH) mixed with eggs, MATZO MEAL and seasonings. The mixture is formed into balls or patties that are then simmered in vegetable or fish stock. After chilling, the gefilte fish is served in its own jellied stock and often garnished with grated horseradish, vegetable relishes or dill pickles. The name comes from the Yiddish term for "stuffed (gefüllte) fish;" in the past the mixture was stuffed back into the fish skin before cooking.

Second..............

ASPIC
AS-pihk]
A savory jelly, usually clear, made of CLARIFIED meat, fish or vegetable stock and GELATIN. Tomato aspic, made with tomato juice and gelatin, is opaque. Clear aspics may be used as a base for molded dishes, or as glazes for cold dishes of fish, poultry, meat and eggs. They may also be cubed and served as a relish with cold meat, fish or fowl.



SO
Yes, it is gelatin.....no it's not the fruity stuff we all think of as jello.

Be Adventurous
............eat somthing different today!

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Trixkala, sounds fine until you get to the gelled part. I do like a lot of Jewish foods, Matzo balls are yummy! Also I think it is Jewish??? It was a pudding made out of noodles (kind of like rice pudding)

Noodle Kugel

there is a Polish/Lituianian dish called kugelis which is a "pudding" made of grated potato and bacon or fat back.............it is my idea of comfort food.

When you get to Jewish/Polish/Latvian/Lituianian/Russian/Slavic foods they all seem to overlap and blur the lines. Thru history as borders where moved and changed, the people stayed put (like the border North in Grecce, where people found themselves Albanian all of a sudden).

Cooking is like a history lesson.......and a lot easier to digest (lol)

Thank you for all the information. My sister-in-law wasn't Jewish. She was from Scandinavia and was preparing a Scandinavian meal. I must have been wrong about the gefilte fish.

Could have been lutefisk or FISKEPUDDING ELLER FISKEFARSE which is a fish pudding.

Gosh those people make fish salad, fish balls, fish pudding, fish cakes.....you name it. I'm sure you must have a few tried and true favorites in your recipe box cattywampus.........

Please share with us.