Ancient bread (was Re: [Sca-cooks] FW:request for recipe(s))
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Fri Mar 22 11:20:25 PST 2002
Also sprach Susan Fox-Davis:
>Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
>> Also sprach Randy Goldberg MD:
>> > > Aye. Even so, every time I opine at Seder that the "bread of
>> >affliction" of
>> >> our ancestors probably resembled pita more than modern matzot, my
>> >father
>> >> gives me a dirty look. Practically part of the family ritual now,
>> >much like
>> >> my brother delivering the Four Questions and Dad beginning the answer
>> >with
>> >> "Funny you should ask!"
>> >
>> >Less like "pita" as we know it in the US, probably something more like a
>> >lavash (a middle-eastern flat bread that's very thin, essentially the
>> >predecessor of the ubiquitous and nasty "wrap").
>> >
>> >Avraham
>
>Coolness. That gives me something new to add to the ritual of the Fox Family
>Speed Seder. <evile grynne>
>
>> The recipes I've seen for hand-made matzoh, such as the one in
>> Machlin's "The Classic Cookery of the Italian Jews" seems to support
>> this. That version is full of little holes pinched in with the
>> fingers.
>>
>> Adamantius
>
>Can you pass us that recipe please? As well as the Chocolate Hunyadi Death
>you've already spoon-teased us with.
>
>Patiently [ha!], Selene, Caid
I have one foot out the door; I have to go and save the world from My
Evil Spawn (tm), but will try to post both over the weekend. I'm
almost certain the chestnut-based Hungarian chocolate cake has been
posted here before; will search my various disks for it, and if I
have to retype it, I will.
Adamantius
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