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.
Photo link
New York Times Magazine's food issue
Chicken McNuggets frolic at New York City pet store
Eat your broccoli orbs! 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
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
Reply
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!
Reply
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.)
Reply
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?
Reply
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.
Reply