Spinach Kugel

When my wife and I had our first anniversary we decided that we were going to go with the traditional anniversary gifts. As you may or may not know, the first anniversary gift is paper, which sounds fairly boring, but has been my favorite of the three that we have celebrated so far (paper, cotton, leather). My bubbie had passed away about 6 months prior and she compiled some of her recipes into two cookbooks with as much as she could translate. That is really when and where this project got started, so that is where I'm starting now.

Spinach kugel (coogle, koogle, etc.), or broccoli kugel, is something we had for shabbos dinner about monthly. Sam actually translated two of these recipes, and I'll be posting the other one later as well. This isn't the recipe the way she taught it to me, but it should give you an idea of what we are up against here

Here is the transliteration as far as I can tell:

Spinich Kugel
1/2 cztek mar?erin litel galek to test 1 1/2 kap bret kram pareve milk hal katen spinech ? pekeches 3 egz litel salt 1 aver tu bek	1/2 stick margerine a little garlic to taste 1 1/2 cup bread crumbs half or whole, not sure, carton of pareve milk two? packages of spinach (i.e. two frozen boxes) 3 eggs little salt Bake for 1 hour

Final Recipe

1/2 stick margerine
a little garlic to taste
1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
whole carton of non-dairy creamer (pareve milk)
two packages of spinach (i.e. two frozen boxes)
3 eggs
little salt
Bake for 1 hour

A little background

My grandmother (bubbe, bubbie, bubba) was born in a part of Eastern Europe that changed hands many times. From the time she was born its been in the hands of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and now the Ukraine. She grew up in a small farming town and was in Auswitz during the Holocaust. After the war my great Uncle married her off to one of his buisness partners, and they traveled to American and settled in Tennessee. Since my parents divorced at a young age and my mother worked full time, I spent most of my free time at my grandparents' house. I grew up cooking these recipes along side my bubbie and I'm looking forward to sharing and revisiting the flavors of my childhood.