Mom’s Passover Sponge Cake (the original recipe) Ingredients 3/4 cup Matzo cake meal 3/4 cup potato starch 1/2 tsp salt 6 yolks 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 cup orange juice 1 1/2 cups ground walnuts 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind (or orange) 6 whites beaten very stiff till they look like the Alps Procedure Mix … [Read more…]
I asked mom for grandma’s borsht recipe. Here it is. Sorry some bits are vague. I will try and clear those parts up next time I make this. I do not recall that we ever served it with potatoes. I recall grandma would always serve it with cheese blintzes on the side. -Mishka (serve cold) … [Read more…]
Gramma’s Matzoh Brei (the original recipe) This is my grandmother’s original recipe so I’m leaving it here at the top of the page, but I do recommend you try my updated version of her recipe directly below it because it’s the one I actually use. The photo here on the right has raisins added. Mon, … [Read more…]
January 4, 1998 Lau- Gramma mailed me this recipe for the Balic Fish. That’s the Gefilte Fish made out of chicken. I copied it here directly. –Michelle Ingredients 4 chicken breasts (totally defatted) 1 large onion &anp; 1 medum size onion two slices challah or white bread– crusts cut off 1 tsp salt for the … [Read more…]
Original Recipe from Mom’s friend’s grandmother in Little Rock circa 1976 (two loaves): Ingredients 2 packages dry yeast (4.5 teaspoons) 1/2 cup lukewarm water 1 tsp sugar 6 cups flour (if unbleached, use 5 1/2 cups) 1/2 cup sugar 2 tsp salt 4 eggs 1/2 cup corn oil 1 cup water 1 tsp honey poppy … [Read more…]
December 23rd, 2022 Update: I just stumbled on a new version of this recipe from Tina’s Table: Pizza Ebraica (Sweet Roman-Jewish “Pizza”)
Sun, Sep 24, 1995 Hi Michelle! Hope you and your roommate are fine and enjoying cooler weather. Wishing you, as Aunt Becky always used to say, “Ah Sveet Year!” May everything happen for you just as you would like. In the same vein, I tried a little Jewish cooking yesterday (why not, got nothing else … [Read more…]
I got this recipe from a cafe owner in Haifa in 2007. I’m convinced she only gave it to me because she knew I wouldn’t be able to make them. I really am not good at frying round things. Anyway hers were fantastic. The cafe was next door to Tamar Messer’s gallery and studio which … [Read more…]
(with notes from mom:) Here was the secret chicken soup which cured my sore throat & cold (along with pills, and green tea with honey) Ingredients Stock pot full of water. Chicken plus 2 extra breasts, or thighs 4 carrots 4 celery stalks 2 large or 3 medium white carrots (parsnips) 1 large onion (not … [Read more…]
Grandma’s Blintzes My grandmother’s blintze recipe emaile to me by Unca Bop Sunday, March 2, 2008 2 eggs to a cup of milk 8 heaping teaspoons flour (to translate: about 1/4 cup) bissel salt in Osteriser til mixed That is the leaf. Cheese — 2 envelopes or bars Farmer cheese and an egg sugar or … [Read more…]