From my childhood

[sunshine05]

I wanted to share this with you guys. When I was a kid, every Christmas Eve it was a tradition that we would all wash our hands with a silver dollar before dinner for "luck" and the youngest person got to keep it. I'm not sure how it started or who started this tradition but we had a Slovak traditional dinner with foods prepared by my grandmother. Pretty cool, huh?

[zap]

Thanks Sunshine, , yes what a great tradition to carry on, silver dollars for all !!!! :)


Oh and forgive my ignorance, but what is served at a Slovak dinner?

[ximmy]

My mom told me that when her dad (my grandfather) threw parties, (big ones with a hundred or more people) every guest had to bring a silver dollar wrapped in foil and there was a large bucket of these coins at the head of the table of grandpa. I never heard of anything like this before.

[zap]

What did grandpa do with the silver dollars Ximmy?

[Golden]

Yea, was it fundraising? And why the foil? /scratches head

[ximmy]

What did grandpa do with the silver dollars Ximmy?

I don't know, I never saw any, and mom didn't get an inheritance... family in-fighting big time on her side when grandpa died :( Mom was really hurt...

[ximmy]

Yea, was it fundraising? And why the foil? /scratches head

I don't know, I thought someone here might know of some historical significance, grandpa was a well-to-do Spaniard.

[MNeagle]

Mafiaoso!!?

[sunshine05]

Thanks Sunshine, , yes what a great tradition to carry on, silver dollars for all !!!! :)


Oh and forgive my ignorance, but what is served at a Slovak dinner?

We had sauerkraut soup with mushrooms and small bread balls with some type of poppy seed glaze (yuck). The soup was pretty good though:).

[zap]

Maybe instead of bringing a bottle of wine or gift for the host of the dinner, they brought the coins, and as not to be rude they wrapped them in tin foil?

[zap]

We had sauerkraut soup with mushrooms and small bread balls with some type of poppy seed glaze (yuck). The soup was pretty good though:).

Thanks Sunshine

I was just trying to look up a traditional Slovak dinner

[ximmy]

Maybe instead of bringing a bottle of wine or gift for the host of the dinner, they brought the coins, and as not to be rude they wrapped them in tin foil?

no-no.. Mom told me grandpa insisted every body bring a foil wrapped silver dollar, even if a family came a coin had to be given for each child or infant... I wasn't born yet so I didn't have to pay.

[MNeagle]

germaphobic maybe?

or maybe that's why you developed a tin-foil hat brain!!?

[zap]

LOL, Then your grandpa was a smart man ! Hell feeding all those people dinner, he ought to get something for his troubles !

[sunshine05]

http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/slovaksoups/r/machanka.htm

[Spectrism]

Poppy seed roll is one of my favorites!

http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/desserts/r/PoppyseedRoll.htm

[zap]

Very Cool to learn about different cultures, A Slovakian and a Spaniard, My grandpa was a Irish, Scott, German, we never had any cool food.

Edit ; or silver dollars !