Homemade is Best
Posted by Margarete on 07 May 2010
My husband’s grandpa gave him a bottle of homemade palenka. I wasn’t sure exactly how to describe palenka so I looked it up in Wikipedia:
Pálenka denotes any kind of distillate, but especially fruit distillate, in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is also often used as a generic word for all kinds of liquors, including vodka, gin, borovička, etc. The word derives from the Slavonic stem “páliť”, to burn.
This palenka is of mixed fruit. From what I have learned, aged palenka is better. This stuff comes from 1964, which I suppose must mean it’s pretty good.
Now I have to figure out what to do with it. Should we try and bring it home to California or leave it behind? Hmmm.
6 Comments on “Homemade is Best”
leave it behind? what could possibly be more *important* to pack?? (well, besides V)
May 7th, 2010 at 09:49 PM
That's interesting. I drank plenty of hruškovica and slivovica, but never heard palenka.
May 10th, 2010 at 04:28 PM
Yep. Palenka is pretty much the only hard stuff that my in-laws make themselves.
May 10th, 2010 at 09:53 PM
MARGARETE I NOTICED THE 1964 LABEL IN YOUR BLOG...IT REMINDED ME OF SOME VAGUE ARTICLE SOMEWHERE THAT THE PRINTING AND WRITING OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES WAS STYLIZED AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME... I HAVE NOTICED DIFFERENT STYLES OF WRITING AND PRIRNTING WITH MY COMPANION AND FAMILY... BUT THEY HAVE NO ANSWERS......AS TO WHY ...MAYBE JUST DIFFERENT GENERATIONS ... BUT I DO REMEMBER SEEING A BOOK SOMEWHERE OF WRITING STYLES???? IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME WELL.... GROWING UP IN A PAROCHIAL SCHOOL WE WERE " TRAINED" AT OUR SCHOOL IN " STYLIZED WRITING" METHODS QUESTION IN YOUR TRAVELS HAVE YOU FOUND THIS TO BE TRUE? AS IN DIFFEREENT STYLIZED PERIODS...RELATIVE TO THE DIFFERENT GOVERNING PARTIES AT THE TIME.. ??? I.E. AUSTRO/HUNGARIAN......SOCIALIST...ETC THANKS JOE
May 19th, 2010 at 04:43 PM
It's an interesting question about stylized periods of writing, Joe. I have no idea. I do know that I've gotten into trouble with the way I write numbers 1 and 7 and how Slovaks write them. A letter to my grandpa-in-law arrived 3 weeks late because I copied the street address incorrectly.
May 20th, 2010 at 09:03 PM
ONE LAST THOUGHT ON NUMBERS ESPECIALLY 1 AND 7 I WAS TAUGHT TO PUT A SLASH THROUGH MY 7 ..SO AS NOT TO CONFUSE IT WITH THE NUMBER ONE MY COMRADES HERE IN THE USA THINK THIS IS " WEIRD" BUT IT WORKS FOR ME MANY TIMES .. I DO A LOT OF THINGS WITH NUMBERS .....AND IT CLEARS THE CONFUSION ...PERIOD. ANOTHER SIDE NOTE ADDRESSES IN THE USA HAVE THE NUMBER FIRST AND MOST EUROPEAN THE NUMBER LAST CALLENDER DAYS ARE THE SAME USA MONTH DAY YR...EUROPE DAY MONTH YEAR...WHO WAS FIRST... "ME THINKS " THE EUROPEANS AND ...IT DOES MAKE MORE SENSE... ????? HAVE A NICE TIME THANKS FOR THE INPUT JOE
May 21st, 2010 at 09:16 PM