![]() Making gefilte fish: A connection to Grandma Molly and generations past Then she would drop them in a huge pot and boil them for hours in a briny fish stock teaming with more onions, carrots and other good things - along with bones, tails and fins cleaned from the fish - to make gefilte fish, just about the least understood item at most Passover seder tables. She would continue until the consistency was just right, then she would begin to lovingly shape the earthy Ashkenazi fish mixture into fist-sized, hand-formed ovals. Her arms were muscular from a life at work in the fish store she owned with my late Grandpa Beryl - but with old grandma triceps that jiggled a little as she worked. Chris Volpe / New Haven Register file photo Show More Show Less Nineteen years later - and six years after Millen’s passing - the tradition continues at the North Haven home of her daughter-in-law, Susan Millen. ![]() Millen, who died in 2013, was the mother figure for a group of women who get together each year on the night before the start of Passover to make the traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish together. The late Virginia Millen, right, joined here by Karen Orzack-Moore, taste tests the gefilte fish broth in a New Haven Register file photo from 2000. Contributed / Zaretsky family photo Show More Show Less 4 of15 New Haven Register / Hearst Connecticut Media reporter Mark Zaretsky's late Grandma Molly Zaretsky, left - who, to the best of his recollection, made The Best Gefilte Fish On Earth - with his maternal Grandma Mildred Field, who to the best of his knowledge did not make gefilte fish. Contributed / Zaretsky family photo Show More Show Less 3 of15 New Haven Register / Hearst Connecticut Media reporter Mark Zaretsky's late Grandma Molly Zaretsky, far right - who, to the best of his recollection, made The Best Gefilte Fish On Earth - at a family gathering with her late husband, Grandpa Beryl Zaretsky, Mark's parents Don and Jackie Zaretsky and, at far, left, Aunt Geraldine Field. Zaretsky family / Contributed photo Show More Show Less 2 of15 With them are Zaretsky’s late older brother Ken Zaretsky and sister Amy Zaretsky - now Amy Zaretsky Burke. New Haven Register/Hearst Connecticut Media reporter Mark Zaretsky, right, with his Grandma Molly Zaretsky, who, to the best of his recollection, made the best gefilte fish on Earth somewhere around 1970.
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