Hat tip to Devory Litvin who sent this Cooking Blog Story to me over Facebook, Jacob and Mina Toper have a recipe for Jacobs famous yeast cake inscribed on their tombstone in Kibbutz Na’an in Israel. Jacob wanted to be remembered for his yeast cake (guaranteed 100 hateful comments if this were posted on Vos Iz Neias or Yeshiva World News) I think its kind of cool and people can always relate through food, such as some Rochester folks may remember Barashi’s cheesecake- because it was damned good!
Kind of got me thinking about what I would put on my tombstone.
I am curious what would you folks want to be inscribed on your tombstone if anything at all?
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He’s trying to keep the Mesorah any way he can
Nu? Can someone translate the recipe for us?
Click the link to the blog Sarah it has the whole article and the recipe- you also may like the blog- for its cooking.
Have you ever been to the Kinneret Cemetary in Israel?
A lot of artists and poets are buried there and they have the most amazing tombstones.
There’s one in particular that has some pretty cool graffiti all over.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_HCxCIdZgg9Y/R8HG0GSRiwI/AAAAAAAAAOg/yGCtp6Xp4CA/CIMG1765.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HCxCIdZgg9Y/R8HGt2SRivI/AAAAAAAAAOY/cAKDM9z9oF0/CIMG1764.JPG
It sounds like something from those frozen pizza commercials. “What do you want on your tombstone?”
Yankele’s yeast cake:
3 kilos of flour
50 grams of yeast
Sprinkle of salt
3 eggs
7 spoons of sugar
200 grams of margarine
1 1/2 cups of milk
Cinnamon to taste
(Don’t ask me how that works in American measurements)
Nemo you just cracked me up- I can’t believe I didn’t get that first
Thanks for the translation
Dude must realy have been proud of his cake or completely off the wall. Who posts an actual recipe on a tombstone?
If I had it my way, I wouldn’t be buried at all. I’d rather be professionally mounted by a taxidermist kind of the way you would see a fox or moose head in a hunting lodge, then put on display in my living room.
Fortunately for my kids, halacha says I need to have a proper burial when the time comes.
does halacha say anything about how the tombstone has to look?
I don’t think the guy is off the wall at all. I think he has a great sense of humor.
Phil that would be quite funny- do you have any fish that are mounted
Mounting fish is expensive at about $10-$12 per inch. They also don’t last forever and require maintenance. Eventually they look really bad over time, no matter how well they were done. That is why I prefer snapshots, I have some enlarged and laminated ones.
Mammals tend to do a lot better, probably due the the hide and fur.
As for humans, I haven’t heard of any taxidermist that would try something that grotesque, but I’m sure one can be found if the price is right. By the time you count burial plots and funeral costs it might be a wash.
I’d want “I Told You I Was Sick” on my tombstone.
Good one homeschool
Jon ate good food
Drank scotch and wine
And lived just right
till ninety-nine.