SC - Matzah (or matzoh)
Sharon R. Saroff
sindara at pobox.com
Mon Apr 5 16:10:10 PDT 1999
Morgan,
Would you be interested in some recipes that I have entered in competition
from my Sephardic cookbooks?
Sindara
At 06:41 PM 3/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>As a spelling correction (assuming people cannot read Hebraic characters),
>the transliteration is "chai" and not "chi." The former is also used to
>mean "tea" in some peoples, the same ones that tend to use "chi" to mean
>"life-force." If you mean "life" it is pronounced "Hi!" with an aspirated
>"H" sound; if you mean "tea" it is "ch-eye."
>
>"L'chaim!" is a common toast, meaning "to life!"
>
>In Hebrew, letters are used for numbers. So to get "18" it works out to be
>the word "chai," which is why many things are done in 18's. You donate $18,
>you bake matzoh for 18 minutes, you give 18 candies in a package, etc.
>
>And yes, you do have to worry about wild yeasts with longer raises, but
>dough does of itself because springy and slightly raised if you leave it to
>sit. When I was learning to make fancy-decorated fruitcakes, I was told to
>never, EVER roll the marchpane on flour, but ALWAYS on powdered (icing,
>confectioner's) sugar, as the flour might have enough raising ability to
>make bubbles under the surface.
>
>Time to go home and make matzoh kugel for tomorrow night - at least all our
>rain is washing the parsley in my garden!
>
> ---= Morgan
>
>PS: The current Chanukah menu has green pancakes as the fritours in one
>course. We've got four in planning: on-table munchies from the three
>sources, plus one course each of Sephardic, Middle Eastern, and Ashkenazic.
>Approximately. So far the lactose-intolerants have no worry and the
>vegetarians are covered. Will continue to report as time progresses.
>
>
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