When my grandmother made noodle kugel, she always used cottage cheese...so no schmaltz. And as strange as this may be, I never remember her making potato kugel.
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Knishes always had meat in them... she made the kind with the potato outside and meat inside. She fried them...probably in schmaltz:):)
My fathers mother ( who did not keep Kosher) made the kind that were dough based and coiled, then baked. They looked like an "S" with some coils of filled dough at the top and bottom of the S.
The blintzes were always dairy because of the eggs in the blintz batter...and kasha or kasha varnishkas were always with a meat meal or chicken soup.
You're right..a lot of it was personal preference and some of it was based on where they were from. Different "regions" had their own ways of cooking.
My mother's mother was from the Kiev area and she raised me...my father's mother was from somewhere nearer to the Polish border..or what was the Polish border at that time.
Both Grandmothers had their own way of cooking...and made a lot of different things...but it was all good!
Debra
