Barbara Kline’s Charoset, Sephardic Style:
1 lb pitted chopped dates
Sweet Kosher for Pesach wine
Ground cinnamon
Chopped walnuts
Cover dates with water in a saucepan and cook over moderate heat until the dates break down into a smooth mass. The results should be like a thick jam. Mix in enough wine to loosen the consistency slightly. […]
Pesach Brickle (thanks to Delores Gross who calls it a Pitzel Brickel, with slight variations by Barbara Kline)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Ingredients:
Matzah
1 C butter
1 C brown sugar
Almonds - whole or chopped coarsely
2 packages Kosher l’Pesach semi-sweet chocolate and 2 packages milk chocolate chips
Grease a cookie pan with butter. Cover the pan with a layer […]
Barbara Kline’s Kubeh
Ingredients:
Ground lamb
Finely chopped onion
Finely chopped garlic
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Cumin
Turmeric
1 egg
1 recipe of matzah ball mixture adding chopped parsley and ginger
All of the seasonings are to-taste. We make it quite spicy. Make matzah ball dough and refrigerate for at least one hour. Mix together the lamb and the following eight ingredients. Form a ball with the matzah […]
Pesach Souffle (thanks to Edna Cohen)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients:
6 eggs, separated
1 lb spinach
1/2 lb edam cheese, sliced
1 lb cottage cheese
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (or to taste)
matzah
Butter the inside of a soufflé dish and cover the bottom with a double layer of matzah.
Plunge spinach into boiling water and remove almost immediately, squeezing […]
A-fi-KO-men is actually a Greek word for “dessert.” During the Seder, we take one of the three matzot on the Seder plate and crack it in half. This is the “Ya-chatz” step in the 14 parts of the Seder. (Which makes for a very fun karate chop, “YA-chatz!!”) The larger […]
Cha-METZ literally means “leavened.” Preparing for Pesach includes removing all of the chametz from your home. The laws of Torah tell us that we’re not to eat, own, or benefit from chametz during the festival holiday of Pesach. In Ashkenazic households, chametz includes grains as well as legumes. There’s […]
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