
The Jewish High Holidays started last week. As with most holiday celebrations, a large part of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur (once you're done fasting and atoning) and Succoth is the food. My mother's family is Jewish, but of such a secular nature that there have been times when ham has appeared on the Passover table. I don't have a store of recipes that have been handed down the generations, so I often turn to others when I want to make a holiday appropriate dish.
One recipe I'd like to try and possibly add to my file of Jewish holiday treats was posted by Claire over at Cookthink. It is a delicious looking honey cake that she remembers her (recently departed) grandmother making to represent the sweetness of another new year.
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9-18-2007 @ 12:48PM
Julie said...
You will love my Aunt Elsie's Jewish Honey Cake, we could never get enough of it.
http://noshtalgia.blogspot.com/2007/02/jewish-honey-cake.html
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9-18-2007 @ 1:50PM
Meredith said...
This is unrelated to this post but a friend just turned me on to Slashfood and as a fellow Philadelphian, I have to know:
What is the favorite farmers' market you keep mentioning?
My veggie bin thanks you in advance!
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9-18-2007 @ 2:03PM
Jason Levine said...
One of my favorite Rosh Hashana dessert growing up was Teiglach. It's a tower of "small, knotted pastries boiled in a honeyed syrup" (to quote Wikipedia). The pasties tend to be really hard and the syrup is so sticky that an attempt at extracting a small piece will often net much more than you intended.
I always thought that it would be difficult to make, but I just found a recipe that makes it sound much easier than I thought:
http://www.recipeland.com/recipe/46289/
(I can't vouch for how good that recipe is since I haven't tried it.)
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9-18-2007 @ 3:31PM
Jill said...
Those jars of honey are beautiful, but I can't find a website for Lemonhill...Does anyone know if they have a site?
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9-18-2007 @ 4:24PM
wynk said...
I am not Jewish but I love honey...I have some local honey I've been wanting to do something with...maybe this is it.
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