Cymes

Carrot cymes with honey Cymes - a common name for several Jewish dishes, most often served as a kind of dessert.

Cymes in central and eastern Poland were most often called a dish, which is a kind of sweet goulash, most often containing in its composition fried carrots. Cymes are usually orange or red and are always sweet. There are types of cymes that are the main dish and contain meat and types that contain only vegetables and fruits and are served as dessert. Cymes, in addition to fried carrots, may contain potatoes, tomatoes, nuts, beef, chicken, pineapple, apples, dried plums and generally everything kosher, is just at hand and fits well with fried sweet carrots.

In the old Galicia, cymes were also sometimes called apple baked in batter with vanilla sauce, raisins and cinnamon. In Galicia there were also cymes that resembled puddings or Easter eggs. Cymes were eaten as a dessert or a main dish during most Jewish holidays, but only those of a cheerful nature (Pascha, Rosh ha-Szana). This dish was especially characteristic for Rosh ha-Shana, because it was believed that what sweet cymes will be then given this "sweet" will be another year.

This word became Yiddish as a term for something very tasty. Within the Yiddish language the word cymes could also mean something pleasant, which requires a lot of confusion or labor.

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