Sunday, February 7, 2010

Making the Moos


Our school has an annual event in which we sell German food.
(It's actually Russian food prepared by Germans, but that's a long story)
We serve verenika, schnetka, liverwurst, sauerkraut,sausage,zwiebach, and, for dessert of course, moos. (That's the real spelling, although, since it's lacking some diacritical markings of importance, it looks strange so most people prefer the French spelling of Mousse.)


We served over a thousand people.
That calls for a lot of moos. There were eleven of us on the mousse-making crew, so we had it finished in a few hours.
Thirty four gallons of the stuff!
It was of two kinds: pluma (plum/raisin) and cherry.


By seven o'clock in the evening there were only a couple of gallons left.
They expected that the patrons remaining at the tables would probably buy that before they went home, although the 'moos servers' and I were secretly hoping everybody would be too full to consider buying it by quarts and pints, because any leftover moos usually gets served in our cafeteria. And we like it.

It was a long day, but not tedious. Working with people you love and respect to further a good cause makes you feel strength through all your tiredness.



4 comments:

aftergrace said...

The food sounds wonderful! What a great bonding experience for all. :)

Rodney said...

"It was a long day, but not tedious. Working with people you love and respect to further a good cause makes you feel strength through all your tiredness."

I love this. Just this morning Rodney stood up in worship and conveyed the same idea to our church family for all the support yesterday for the feast and an event that took place last night at our church for the children. I have known for some time that there are times when I get emotionally tired from negative stresses and occurances, but I am also learning that when I am physically tired as well, I easily get emotionally tired from being overwhelmed by the positive in my life, too. That's where I am today. We truly love CBA and yesterday was truly something good that we are so pleased to be a part of. (yes, here I am an English major ending a sentence with a preposition. :)
Roshelle Wherritt

Lilibeth said...

Well..."of which I am so pleased to be a part sounds contrived", so you ended it up well. lol.

Carina said...

Now you have to tell people that it's pronounced with an oh sound not an oo sound.