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06/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Pauline Barofsky Gimpel"

PAULINE BAROFSKY GIMPEL

Pauline was in town for a couple days and we managed to get together for a short visit. When she comes to visit her hometown, from her home in Great Neck, New York, she never stays long enough to suit her old friends. There is always so much to talk about. And her visits always bring back good memories of her parents, Hat and Helen Barofsky. Helen was famous for her kolaches as they were made out of very light sweet roll dough, with made-from-scratch fruit fillings...then tied into little basket-shaped tasties with a little light butter icing drizzled on top. There were none better, in my humble opinion.

Years ago, on a trip to Salina, Pauline and I spotted a hawk we couldn't identify hovering near the Vanier ranch. We immediately named it the Britofsky hawk. I'd like to think the area is filled these days with Britofsky hawks.

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Different kolachkes for different folks. I remember mine with a second "k", using the canned filling (poppy seed, apricot and maybe prune - city folk heh heh) with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. When you could get one still warm after a few minutes out of the oven, mmm mmm mmmmmm.

Posted by MarcV @ 06/12/2003 08:41 AM CST