Mrs. YURDAGÜL’S BAYRAM DAYS (She came to KOMİ when she was 11years old)

Her mother, 2 days before, cleaned house “buz gar” “from head to toe”

The day before (arife günü) she always made baklava. Poured the syrup on the night before so it was ready for visitors the next day. Yurdagül remembers her father coming home from the kahve, would eat almost ½ the baklava! In the morning my mother would open the sheet covering the tray of baklava and exclaim “Ah! Where has all the baklava gone!” He did this every Bayram. On Bayram morning my father went to the mosque and as always he brought 8 to 10 people to our house for lunch (it was ‘sevap’ to feed others) My mother made fırın kebab (oven kebap) potatoes, pilav, dolma (vineleaves) and salad. We fed people all day, who ever came.

Now, when I think about it where have the bayram customs gone of our youth? I really miss those kind of things from my childhood. Now I am married to a man from Komi. Every Bayram morning I go to greet my mother-in-law. I have8 children, they all come with me to kiss her hand. Then I go to greet other relatives and neighbors’ make kebab in my big outdoor oven, enough for all the family, sometimes meat, sometimes chicken. I always make baklava for Bayram for my family.


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