I had tears streaming down my face when you called me and told me that what I wrote was impossible. I too was laughing so hard because I have such vivid memories of questioning Mommy about the number of eggs and she would get frustrated with me for questioning her. It didn’t seem SO unreasonable because many recipes for sponge cake use 10-12 eggs and they had a large family. We will never know but I can’t imagine that she would have told me 12 dozen, that would not have been worth mentioning????????? We will never know but I am sticking to my story.

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You have some terrific qualities but math is not one of them. I don’t think I have laughed so much in my life since I read about the sponge cake made of 144 EGGS for a family of EIGHT for each day of Passover. There must be some mistake somewhere. I don’t think there were enough chickens in Mogielnica for every other family if our grandmother used all those eggs. But you are very funny and cute. My mother told me that they used to buy a SHOK of eggs every Passover for the eight days. Maybe a SHOK was about twelve dozen. It is very strange about the things each of us remembers. I don’t remember your stories and you don’t remember mine. But it does not matter because we both have good memories of growing up.

Thanks for the great blog!!

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Irene

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