The Passover Thread - Or Pass the Matzah!

[Miss Jasmine]

Coming in to add a recipe for

Passover Rolls

1/2 Cup oil
1T sugar
1t salt
1 Cup boiling water
2 Cups matzoh meal
4 eggs
Grease baking sheet . Add wet ingredients together, add boiling water then add the matzoh all at once, stir vigoursly. Remove from heat and beat in the eggs one at a time. Shape the batter into 8 to 10 balls place them 2 inches apart on well greased baking sheet. Bake 375 for one hour, or until golden brown.


I am also a Christian that celebrates the Passover Seder. I've always added it to our Lutheran Church's calendar during the Last Supper. Our Pastor is married to a Jewish woman that has helped me. She mentioned that they usually dont do the Passover rolls, as it seems to much like real bread! We follow a Christian Seder that she found that is wonderful! I've been able to make the Seder plates, thanks to the world wide web and all the great information...

Now, our Pastor has put in his resignation, but I still want to try and do the Passover at our church. The calendar has Passover on Saturday April 23, does that mean the first night of Passover is Friday at sundown, and is celebrated for 7 nights?

Thanks for the thread, and the recipes! (That chocolate torte looked amazing!)

May I ask which Christian Seder do you use? I am trying to pick one.

 

[Cruise04]

Challah is bread. It's a yummy rich slightly sweet bread and makes the best french toast.

I think part of what was missing in rubyslipperlover's post is that the "next holiday" must have been passover, when you're not allowed to have bread.

Thank you.

 

[cherylp3]

Wow I went to All ears and Disney is having Kosher for Passover food.

This is great. My brother in law is visting and I was wondering what I would be doing for food.

Cheryl

 

[rubyslipperlover]

that's great!

I know a lot of the hotels in Miami and Boca "do" Passover, but I didn't realize Disney would.

though I know Disney does kosher year-round. a woman in my office was planning on shlepping all her own food until I told her that if she orders 24 hours in advance she can get kosher meals on site.

younger dd brought the Barton's home from Hebrew school last night. older dd was ready to open the lollycones right then and there.

 

[frndshpcptn]

I've already eaten 2 boxes of fruit slices. They are addicting!

 

[rubyslipperlover]

meo to self -- buy more matzo farfel than you think you need.

we always seem to run out.

 

[rubyslipperlover]

funny how I keep meeting all my friends and neighbors in hte Passover aisle at the supermarket.

 

[cherylp3]

Or at your local Kosher butcher

 

[rubyslipperlover]

half my neighbors won't buy from the local kosher butcher. he's somewhat infamous.

the standards for koshering meat are more liberal if you consult a Conservative rabbi instead of an Orthodox rabbi. until recently, however, NY law required that a product meet "Orthodox Hebrew" standards in order for it to be sold as kosher.

after having numerous violations written against his shop, our local butcher went to federal court to get the kosher law declared unconstitutional -- and won. and yes, the judge who heard the case is Jewish. NY law was changed after that -- now, in order to call a product kosher, you have to indicate who supervised the product and the consumer can make his own decisons.

but the impression people have is simply that the butcher went to court to overturn kosher laws.

 

[cherylp3]

It sounds complicated like the Hebrew National change.

 

[rubyslipperlover]

exactly.

 

[rubyslipperlover]

eatching a rerun of "the Nanny" today on lifetime, and it's the Passover episode -- you know, the holiday where they hide crackers for little children and then we stuff ourselves.

 

[foofanella]

I am happy to eat salads and such - I don't keep strictly kosher (and I heard the meals inside the parks are cardboard-city!), but I don't eat bread, pasta, rice and corn (or products) during pesach.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We're DVC, so matza brei for breakfast. Yum.

Thanks in advance!

 

[frndshpcptn]

I was in Disney for Passover last year. It was totally do-able. Salads and veggies - you can find those a lot of places. Turkey legs, hot dogs with no bun, hamburger with no bun, etc....

 

[DisDuck]

From my Men's Club..some laughs before Passover


A little something to help put a smile on your face as you prepare for
Passover (courtesy of the Men's Club) ---------------------

A group of leading medical researchers has published data indicating that
Seder participants should NOT partake of both chopped liver and charoses.
It seems that this combination can lead to Charoses of the Liver.

At our seder, we had whole wheat and bran matzoh, fortified with
Metamucil.
The brand name, of course, is..."Let My People Go."

Old Jewish men in Miami get hernias from wearing chai's which are too
heavy. This condition is called chaiatal hernia!"

If a doctor carries a black bag and a plumber carries a tool box, what
does
a mohel carry? A bris kit!

JEWISH JEOPARDY: We give the answer, you give the question

A: Midrash
Q: What is a Middle East skin disease?

A: The Gaza Strip
Q: What is an Egyptian Belly Dance?

A: A classroom, a Passover ceremony, and a latke
Q: What are a cheder, a seder, and a tater?

A: Sofer
Q: On what do Jews recline on Passover?

A: Babylon
Q: What does the rabbi do during some sermons?

A: Filet Minyan
Q: What do you call steaks ordered by 10 Jews?

A: Kishka, sukkah, and circumcision
Q: What are a gut, a hut, and a cut?

And speaking of circumcisions: An enterprising Rabbi is offering
circumcisions via the Internet. The service is to be called..."E-MOIL."
HAPPY PESACH.

 

[rubyslipperlover]

 

[rubyslipperlover]

we're in the final countdown, guys. my rabbi says we have to have the house kosher for passover by tomorrow afternoon. oy!

 

[robinb]

we're in the final countdown, guys. my rabbi says we have to have the house kosher for passover by tomorrow afternoon. oy!

You're probably not reading the DIS today, but I am having a brain cloud over the preperation of your eggs/onions/salted water thing. Do you just slice the HB eggs and onions and put then in a bowl of salt water? That's it? How much water? How long to they "soak"? Do you put any herbs with them?

 

[simpilotswife]

A link my DGD sent me.....

http://www.jibjab.com/matzah/matzah.htm

 

[geffric]

Does anyone remember the Chocolate Sedar - I used to have the whole service but now I can't find it... anyway.. happy pasover. I need to get back to cooking, cleaning and preparing ...


"Seven-year-old Khalehla Stebbins remembers the 10 plagues from religious school, but she sure doesn't recall the list including headaches or pimples.


Nor has the second-grader uttered a single prayer that stated "let our minds turn to those who on this day are not blessed with the taste of chocolate."

Then again, this is the first "Chocolate Seder" at the Beth David Religious School, where Jewish children took part Sunday in a 2,000-year-old ritual -- literally dipped in chocolate.

The seder itself is a ceremonial dinner marking the first night of Passover when families and gatherings focus on God freeing the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Passover begins at sundown Saturday. Each year in preparation for the special meal, the school tries to bring the story to life for the youngest of its community.

"This is presenting the outline of the seder -- some of the highlights in a fun, child-oriented, giggly sort of way," said Rabbi Eli Havivi, as he watched the chocolate and banter flow around him.

Besides chocolate chips and s'mores, there were funny recitations and cleverly reworded songs, such as "Take Us Out of Egypt" sung to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

"It both delights them and reminds them -- what any satire or spoof does -- of the original while being affectionately intimate," Havivi said while watching almost 50 children take part.

The Passover story is not read from the Bible, but a booklet known as the Haggadah. And the Haggadah invites creativity in retelling the story -- hence Ilana Goldberg's dipping bits of sour apple into the pool of chocolate on her plate, and popping the dark-chocolate Hershey's kisses into her mouth.

In homes across the city this coming weekend, bitter greens will be dipped in saltwater and eaten for the same symbolic effect as the sour apple and chocolate.

"It's to feel the pain of how it was to be a slave," said Ilana, a fifth-grader who turns 11 this week.

Michael Jacobson watched his 10-year-old son, Alexander, surrounded by his friends.

"It's not much of a sacred holiday -- it's more of a historical holiday, and in that context, anything helping with community-building and collective conscience is good," Jacobson said.

During Passover, Jews eat dry matzo crackers instead of bread. On Sunday, it was chocolate-covered matzo crackers, which gave the same undesired effect.

"It tastes like coffee," said 8-year-old Adam Ross, wrinkling his nose.

As called for during the ritual, Ilana took her finger and dotted her napkin 10 times, using a cup of chocolate milk.

"It's chocolate milk instead of wine or grape juice" that might be used at home, Ilana said.

The drops represent the 10 plagues -- the list represented by the likes of pimples and headaches to Khalehla -- that God sent over Egypt.

Other certain acts must take place during the seder -- the story must be told in first person and present tense so each person speaks of being freed by God.

Children must be given the chance to ask "The Four Questions," including "Why is this night different from all other nights?"

While the chocolate seder was viewed as both fun and educational for the children, it also opened the door for "their parents to explain the more serious aspects of it," said high school senior Dori Chandler, a counselor at the school who helped rap parts of "The Ballad of the Four Sons" to the tune of "Clementine." "We wouldn't want it to be 'just fun,' " Chandler said. "