WATCH: The REAL Gefilte Fish
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Rukhl Schaechter July 18, 2018
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts.
The gefilte fish you’ve been eating is nothing but a glorified fish patty. When making real gefilte fish, minced-fish stuffing is spooned into slices of carp, between the skin and the bone. Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter and Polish-born gefilte fish maven Sabina Barszap show how it’s done.
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