Category: Purim
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Kreplach
Around the 16th century, Eastern Europeans started making filled pasta; probably the influence of both the Tartar invasion from Asia in the East and Italy in the South. Regardless, this was innovative. As hard as it is for us to imagine, it hadn’t occurred to the people of Northern Europe to boil their pasta; they…
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Hamantaschen Fillings
Each one of the filling recipes makes enough to fill one batch of this hamantaschen dough. The rule of thumb with all hamantaschen fillings is do not overfill! 1 teaspoon is more than enough to fill regular-sized hamantaschen. All the fillings will keep for two weeks in an airtight container in the fridge. BROWNIE – STUFFED…
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Hamantaschen Dough
Jews have dealt with the precarious nature of our life in the diaspora by feasting in the face of adversity. That phrase — “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat!” — is never more true than on Purim. One of the key components to our perseverance for millennia in an often unfriendly world was, and…