By Gloria O’Brien-Kivytaitė. KUNIGAS ATEINA KALĖDOT’ Recollections about an on old Lithuanian parish and the Christmas-time custom that Lithuanian immigrants had brought with them from the Old Country. DURING the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s Brooklyn’s Apreiškimo Parapija (Annunciation Parish) was wellknown as a Lithuanian stronghold. As a “national parish,” without …

CRESCENT CAKE WITH FRUIT Riestainis su vaisiais 4 cups flour ½ cup milk 1 oz. yeast 5 Tbsps. melted butter 4 eggs ½ cup sugar 1 cup dried currants 1 cup cut-up dried fruit 2 oz. butter for filling Mix ½ of the flour with warm milk and add yeast …

POTATO DUMPLINGS – ”ZEPPELINS” Cepelinai – Didžkukuliai 3 lbs. raw potatoes, peeled and grated 4 cooked potatoes 2 eggs, beaten Salt to taste Put raw potato gratings in a double cheese cloth and squeeze dry. Save the potato liquid, let potato starch settle at the bottom, decant potato liquid and …

by Tom Gregg (Grigonis) Three Lithuanian American brothers each played football well enough to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. That’s a unique accomplishment, and maybe the heart of our story. But even taking a wider view, the saga of the eight member Wistert family is extraordinary. …

RECIPE NUMBER 1 4 cups ice-cold water 2 cups buttermilk 2 cups canned, diced or 3-4 fresh beets, boiled and peeled 2 small cucumbers, peeled and diced 2 hard-boiled eggs, diced ½ cup sour cream Salt and pepper to taste 3 Tbsps. fresh dill, shopped Pinch sugar In a large …

By Edward Baranauskas Remembering Darius-Girėnas Memorial 1933-2003 SEVENTY YEARS AGO, ON July 15, 1933, two Lithuanian American flyers, Stephen (Steponas) Darius and Stanley (Stasys) Girėnas, took off from Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn, New York at 6:24 A.M. EDT, on their attempted nonstop trans-Atlantic flight to Kaunas, at that time the provisional …

BY JOHN MILLAR ASOFT “CLUNK” FROM SOMEWHERE BELOW my feet and a slight, insistent pressure pushing me back into the seat indicated that the undercarriage had retracted and the aircraft was reaching for altitude. I leaned my head against the headrest as my thoughts went swirling, tumbling crazily through my …

TASTY SLAW Skani kopūstų mišrainė 1 medium-sized head of cabbage, about 2 pounds (tough outer leaves removed), cored and thinly shredded 2 medium-sized carrots, peeled and grated 1 green bell pepper (stems and seeds removed), halved and grated 1 Tbsp. coarsely grated yellow onion 2 cups mayonnaise ½ cup sugar …

By Edward Baranauskas I BELIEVE MANY AMERICANS OF LITHUANIAN descent may be wondering how they can learn more about their ancestors and roots. The wonderful adventure of searching for the past may not be as difficult as one may think, but it does require patience. The place to start is …

DEEP-FRIED PASTRY STRIPS Žagarėliai “Žagarėliai” are delicate pastry dough cookies, deep-fried in oil. The main ingredients are flour, eggs and sour cream. All ingredients should be kneaded together, then the dough should be beaten with the rolling pin, folding the dough toward the center, until blisters start to form on …