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- From: tovah@cepu.uucp (Tovah Hollander)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Charoset
- Message-ID: <9191@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 9 Apr 87 06:29:32 GMT
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- Organization: UCLA Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Los Angeles, Calif., USA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHAROSET S "16 Mar 87" 1987
- .RZ "CHAROSET" "Traditional Seder accompaniment"
- This paste-like, sweet spread is a prescribed part of the traditional Seder.
- Its mortar-like consistency is intended to remind Jews of the bricks and
- mortar our ancestors labored with as slaves in Egypt. Quite incidentally, it
- is delicious and tastes wonderful spread on matzah. This is the traditional
- charoset from the Ashkenazic (Eastern European) Jewish tradition; very
- different, but equally delicious, charoset recipes, using such ingredients
- as dates, raisins, and sesame, can be found in the various Sephardic
- communities (e.g., Yemenite, Persian, Turkish, Moroccan, etc.).
- .IH "2 cups" "5 dl"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "finely chopped nuts" "150 g"
- (e.g., almonds, walnuts, filberts)
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "sugar or honey" "30 ml"
- (or a mixture)
- .IG "1\-2 cups" "chopped or grated apples" "100\-200 g"
- (about 4\-6 medium apples)
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "cinnamon" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "" "sweet wine"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Mix nuts, sugar, honey, apples and cinnamon together until
- well-blended.
- .SK 2
- Add wine slowly until the texture resembles a thick paste, like mortar.
- .SK 3
- Taste and adjust cinnamon, sugar, wine amounts.
- .NX
- This recipe yields about enough for the Seder table.
- If you like this as much as we do, you will want to make more.
- .PP
- Some people prefer a chunkier, less smoothly-blended charoset.
- .PP
- If you live in an area where Kosher for Passover ground nuts
- (\fInot\fR groundnuts) are available, they save a lot of
- chopping time and lead to a smoother consistency.
- If you're lucky enough to have a Kosher for Passover food
- processor, you will also save a lot of arm exercise.
- And remember, kids love to chop!
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 20 minutes to several hours, depending on how much
- hand-chopping you have to do.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Tovah Hollander
- UCLA Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Los Angeles, California USA
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