SC - Dutch Portuguese Sephardic Haroset
Seton1355 at aol.com
Seton1355 at aol.com
Sun Mar 25 20:28:29 PST 2001
Just passing this along. I believe it to be late period.
Phillipa
<< As Pesach approaches I find it may interest this group to offer
discuss various Spanish-Portuguese minhagim related to the
festival., And as a starter I am offering the recipe for haroset as
handed down in my family. My family immigrated to Amsterdam from
Portugal via Antwerp in the 17th century and from Amsterdam to
America in the first half of the 19th century. This recipe as far
as I can tell, is unique among the recipes for haroset that I have
seen but ...with all modesty, is the best haroset I have ever tasted.
1 lb. of dates
6 oz. of almonds - already ground very very fine - almost to a powder
3 tb. cherry jam
a glass of fresh orange juice with pulp
3 tbs. of sweet grape wine, cointreau or sherry
soak the dates in fresh orange juice to soften
place the dates with the juice into a blender
remove the dates, mix with the wine and cherry jam
sprinkle the almond powder over the haroset before serving.
As explained to me by my grandparents over 50 years ago, the concept
is to make the haroset as the Torah quote - as black as pitch or
morter but sweet as written in Shir Ha Shirim - shachora ani
v'na'va -I am black and beautiful. We always served the "Portuguese
haroset" on a small silver filigree plate which further enhanced the
hiddur mitzvah - making the mitzvah of observing pesach even more
beautiful.
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