Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: smetina (or smetna) Message-ID: <4731@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 15:13:20 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4731 Posted: Wed Sep 19 15:13:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:05:47 EDT References: <2925@teklabs.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 18 This is a trade name for a type of sour cream. It might be sour-half&half or some such concoction that the FDA thinks shouldn't be labelled "sour cream", or it might just be a brand name. Anyway, if this sounds to be the right thing, go ahead and substitute generic sour cream in the recipes you have. (This stuff comes in a cardboard container, sort of cream-colored, with red lettering. I've seen it around here (St. Louis, MO) all my life, so it's been around a while. I sort of thought it was "Smetana", but I haven't paid attention to it for years. My mother used to buy it, but I buy ordinary sour cream. This stuff is still in the stores, in the dairy case right next to the sour cream, though.) Will Martin PS - If the recipes you have indicate that you are looking for crackers or leaves or some sort of spice, we are talking about two different things. If so, never mind...