Recipes

Askhenazi Recipes

Yield: 30 to 35 macaroons Jews who settled in the American South embraced and creatively adapted the new foods they found there, pairing collard greens with their griebenes and grits...
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Ingredients: salt pepper sweet paprika pearl barley (gershli) large white beans smoked goose breast(Adam orders from a poultry specialist who smokes his own and delivers them once each week when...
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Yield: 6-8 servings 2 1/2 to 3 pounds sole, flounder, or similar white-fleshed fish fillets, no more than 1/2-inch thick (any stray bones removed with a tweezer) Salt 3 large...
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photo taken by Rebecca Siegel , on March 2, 2009, CC licensing (from Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover’s Treasury of Classics and Improvisations , by Jayne Cohen, available in...
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photo taken by Virtual Eric , on January 3, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 3 kilos/6 lbs chicken parts - 3 carrots, scraped and cut into bite-size pieces - 4...
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photo taken by mharvey75 , on April 3, 2008, CC licensing Yield: 4 to 5 serving Ingredients: 1 cup coarsely chopped half-sour or garlic-dill pickles 2 tablespoons liquid from pickle...
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photo taken by Andrea Goh , on December 24, 2011, CC licensing Cauliflower gets plenty of pizzazz in this kugel from sautéed aromatics and smoked paprika. A garlicky matzoh topping...
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photo taken by Elana Amsterdam , on March 19, 2010, CC licensing Recipe taken from 1000 Jewish Recipes by Faye Levy (IDG Books) Faye Levy's delightful carrot kugel is different...
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photo taken by Adam Fagen , on October 25, 2008, CC licensing From Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations by Jayne Cohen (Wiley 2008) Apples...
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photo taken by Linn Gardner , April 1, 2009, CC licensing Adapted from The Complete Passover Cookbook by Frances R. AvRutick Makes 8 servings 3 to 4 potatoes 4 hard-cooked...
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photo taken by di.wineanddine , on November 13, 2010, CC licensing This dairy soup would be great for Shavuot. I found several variations of Polish Pickle Soup, requested by Benita...
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photo taken by Joey Rozier , on December 4, 2010, CC licensing At the Sunday organic market in Paris, they don't call them latkes-they say galettes à l'oignon-but trust me...
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photo taken by Rebecca Siegel , on December 9, 2011, CC licensing This soufflé-light, savory kugel makes an excellent accompaniment to meat or fish, or a fine vegetarian entrée. Serves...
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photo taken by fofie57 , on July 13, 2008, CC licensing Adapted from A Russian Jew Cooks in Peru by Violeta Autumn (101 Productions) A simple, classic recipe from Russia...
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photo taken by farmanac , on June 23, 2012, CC licensing Adapted from Yiddish Cuisine: A Gourmet's Approach to Jewish Cooking by Robert Sternberg Yield: 6 to 8 servings Although...
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photo taken by Liz West , on Semptember 28, 2010, CC licensing Yield: about 10 servings Robust and deeply flavorful, this soup makes a satisfying meal when served with good...
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photo taken by jmackinnell , on October 18, 2009, CC licensing Jewish Apple Cake recipes show up not only in synagogue and other Jewish community cookbooks, but in church recipe...
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photo taken by Elana Amsterdam , on march 23, 2011, CC licensing adapted from Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations by Jayne Cohen (Wiley, 2008)...
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photo taken by Janet Hudson , on October 2, 2010, CC licensing From Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World by Gil...
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photo taken by sierravalleygirl , on March 31, 2010, CC licensing Yield: about 6 servings Prepare the Farfel Pilaf recipe ( see here ). Or cook farfel in boiling salted...
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photo taken by vidalia_11 , on July 21, 2007, CC licensing From The Jewish Festival Cookbook by Fannie Engle and Gertrude Blair (David McKay, 1954) 1 egg ¼ teaspoon salt...
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photo taken by Sandor Weisz , January 9, 2010, CC licensing Recipe taken from Jayne's book: " Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lovers Treasury of Classics and Improvisations " Yield...
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photo taken by Gigi Tagliapietra , on September 21, 2006, CC licensing Czech and other Central European cooks rely on a quark-type curd cheese for many cheese recipes, including these...
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photo taken by Sandor Weisz , on December 20, 2006, CC licensing Yield: About 4 servings Ingredients: About 1 ½ pounds russet (baking) or Yukon gold potatoes, peeled ½ pound...
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photo taken by Carlos Lorenzo , September 6, 2008, CC licensing Adapted from Yiddish Cuisine: A Gourmet's Approach to Jewish Cooking by Robert Sternberg (Jason Aronson 1995) Yield: 8 to...
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photo taken by twohelmetscooking , on June 10, 2009, CC licensing This recipe was inspired by my friend Faye Levy's lovely Polish Strawberry Soup in her book, Faye Levy's International...
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photo taken by Theresa Carle-Sanders , February 5, 2012, CC licensing Yield: about 6 appetizer servings This homey dish was probably created to find another use for the bony chicken...
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photo taken by whitneyinchicago , on July 11, 2009, CC licensing The fruits used in this sweet bread vary with the seasons and availability. Sour cherries and blueberries are the...
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photo taken by Kelsi Barr , on October 7, 2013, CC licensing Here I have substituted brown butter for the plain melted butter in this recipe from Robert Sternberg's wonderful...
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photo taken by Tracy Benjamin , on September 11, 20110, CC licensing For best results, use high-quality fresh unsalted butter. Since you'll be reducing the butter by evaporating the water...
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photo taken by jspatchwork , on October 9, 2011, CC licensing Yield: 8 generous servings Dried mushrooms flavor the brisket as it cooks, then fresh mushrooms are sautéed and added...
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photo taken by Olga Massov , on October 27, 2008, CC licensing Yield: about 4 servings Ingredients: 1 large egg 1 cup kasha, preferably medium- or coarse-grind 2 cups chicken...
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photo taken by sierravalleygirl , January 18, 2006, CC licensing From Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations by Jayne Cohen (Wiley) Yield: About 10 servings...
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photo taken by VancityAllie , on August 1, 2010, CC licensing Tidbits savory with garlic and vinegar or satiny with schmaltz may pique the appetite, but for many Jews, no...
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photo taken by Cara Faus , on September 1, 2010, CC licensing If lox and cream cheese is Yiddish cuisine's answer to ham and eggs, isn't honey cake, lekach, its...
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photo taken by Jack Newton , on September 2, 2013, CC licensing Gefilte fish, challah, even matzoh balls-some bubbe foods can be intimidating to cooks when started from scratch. But...
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photo taken by Olga Massov , on November 28, 2008, CC licensing Casale Monferrato, a town deep in the wine country of Piedmont, Italy, made our Hanukkah latkes sing. It...
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photo taken by kthread , on December 17, 2008, CC licensing Add just a smidgen of sugar to tea or coffee-even the darkest Turkish brew-and it then becomes undrinkable to...
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photo taken by vidalia_11 , on October 26, 2006, CC licencing A Parisian-Jewish caterer once described to me his favorite T-shirt, seen on a beach in Eilat, Israel. There was...
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photo taken by Joshua Bousel , on April 1, 2007, CC licensing No doubt one reason my mother was crowned Miss Greenwich Village was that the neighborhood was predominantly Irish...
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photo taken by Olga Massov , on November 29, 2008, CC licensing Ingredients: - 600 g beefbones - 1 kg beef - 200 g onions - 600 g tomatoes -...
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photo taken by Theresa Carle-Sanders , on March 31, 2011, CC licensing Ingredients: - I large white cabbage (about 2 kg) - 800 g beef - 200 g rice -...
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photo taken by jfiess , on April 10, 2011, CC licensing Ingredients: - 6 cups unsifted flour - 2-1/4-2-1/2 cup luke-warm milk - ½ cup sugar - 1 oz. fresh...
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photo taken by Kyrre Gjerstad , on August 5, 2012, CC licensing Ingredients: - 0.6 oz. fresh yeast - 1 t. sugar - 1 T. evaporated milk - we let...
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photo taken by In Praise of Sardines , on December 7, 2005, CC licensing Preparation: To prepare two of our three inter-related classic recipes, you must start with perfect Chicken...
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photo taken by amygwen , on January 8, 2009, CC licensing There are certain foods which are traditional and almost universally liked. Every cook enjoys seeing the comfort on a...
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photo taken by Baha'i Views/Flitzy Phoebie , on November 23, 2008, CC licensing This intensely apple-flavored and wonderfully moist torte is quite unusual. Although there are many flourless cakes in...
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photo taken by sweetbeetandgreanbean , on December 29, 2011, CC licensing There is no category in Austro-Hungarian cuisine that is as different from the cooking of other countries as the...
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photo taken by Diana Schnuth , on October 12, 2012, CC licensing There are two versions of Chicken paprika. Obviously the version with sour cream is not kosher, so I...
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photo taken by Craig Dugas , on January 25, 2009, CC licensing This is quite an unusual soup garnish. It is in the Austro-Hungarian cooking tradition, but different from other...
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photo taken by majorbonnet , on June 12, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 6 slices of white bread, cut into 1/2" dice - 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, margarine, or ren-dered...
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photo taken by megabeth , on April 11, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 5 tablespoons of chicken fat - 5 eggs - Salt, freshly ground pepper - 1 cup matzoh...
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photo taken by abbyladybug , on March 23, 2007, CC licensing Ingredients: - 2 medium sized hothouse cucumbers - 1/2 cup vinegar - 1/2 cup water - 1 tablespoon sugar...
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photo taken by Susy Morris , on October 28, 2009, CC licensing This is Riza neni's version of a now largely forgotten nineteenth-century Austrian recipe. Supposedly, Emperor Franz Joseph liked...
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photo taken by Deniele Muscetta , on December 23, 2007, CC licensing How did we come to be who we are? Occasionally, we ask ourselves that question, or try to...
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photo taken by robot-girl, on November 29, 2008, CC licensing Ingredients: - 1 pound of butter, soft - 2 egg whites (for dipping) - 7 cups flour - 4 egg...
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p hoto taken by Abraham Wallin , on April 9, 2009, CC licensing Though all the kugels in Riza neni's reper¬toire included sugar, she served most of them as accompaniments...
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LIZ: Tsimmes is a sweet Ashkenazi stew in which the ingredients vary depending on family origin and tradition. The dish is often eaten during the Jewish High Holidays to symbolically...
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Ingredients: salt pepper sweet paprika pearl barley (gershli) large white beans smoked goose breast(Adam orders from a poultry specialist who smokes his own and delivers them once each week when...
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photo taken by FoodMayhem.com , on April 12, 2009, CC licensing This article first appeared, in a slightly different form, in Jewish Woman Magazine , Spring 2012 We’ve heard all...
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photo taken by Jen SFO-BCN , on September 29, 2009, CC licensing Schnitzel (German pronunciation: [ˈʃnɪtsəl]) is a traditional Austrian dish made with boneless meat thinned with a hammer (escalope-style...
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photo taken by Olga Massov , on October 27, 2008, CC licensing As current economic shock waves trip an ancient collective memory of the lean wolf, huffing and puffing with...
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photo taken by cobalt123 , September 29, 2012, CC licensing Clean and cut up the fruit. Pour over boiling water and cook until soft. Add Cinnamon and sugar as required...
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photo taken by Another Pint Please... , on October 9, 2012, CC licensing This is so tasty, and a fairly unique way to make leeks. This is a good companion...
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photo taken by Allie Coremin , January 10, 2011, CC licensing Leeks, like eggplants, are a staple of Turkish cooking. In soups and souffles, they have a character that marries...
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photo taken by William Jones , on March 28, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 3 kilos/6 lbs chicken parts - 3 carrots, scraped and cut into bite-size pieces - 4...
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Askhenazi Article Recipes

"Manischewitz, look at that go!" When Apollo 17 astronaut, Gene Cernan, uttered those words during his 1973 walk on the moon, the kosher Concord wine brand he mentioned was his...
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photo taken by Joshua Bousel , on September 8, 2010, CC licensing For many people, Rosh Hashanah is the festival of apples. There are, of course, the newly ripened, crisp...
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photo taken by Manfreg Morgner , on August 12, 2010, CC licensing At the crossroads of Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Eastern Europe, Czech-Jewish cooks shared many of their neighbors' recipes...
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p hoto taken by famfriendsfood , on March 27, 2013, CC licensing Farfel seems to have found a place in American lore as an iconic name for man's best friend...
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Sephardic Recipes

photo taken by Andy Jien , on November 24, 2013, CC licensing To make this beautiful jam, you’ll need unsprayed roses with a strong fragrance: petals without much scent will...
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photo taken by bourgeoisbee , April 21, 2008, CC licensing 2 -3 large red bell peppers 2 large garlic cloves, put through a press or very finely minced kosher salt...
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photo taken by avlxyz , on February 4, 2013, CC licensing Recipe taken from Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations by Jayne Cohen (Wiley 2008)...
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photo taken by TheDeliciousLife , on January 11, 2010, CC licensing "This part of Fifth Avenue always seemed fat to him, fat and prosperous: like chicken schmaltz ."--Henry Roth, Mercy...
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photo taken by Indiana Public Media , on December 23, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 4 eggplants [(about 2 lb./1kg.) will make about 1 lb. 6 oz./650 gr. Of Aubergine...
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photo taken by hanspetermeyer , on October 7, 2012, CC licensing Here is a perfect summer dessert. Throughout the Balkans and eastern Hungary, by late summer plums have grown fat...
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photo taken by Julia Frost , on October 13, 2011, CC licensing Ingredients: - ½ kg of okra - 3 large tomatoes, cored, seeded,peeled, then grated - 1 onion, grated...
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photo taken by Esti Alvarez , on August 29, 2007, CC licensing When I am in Sofia, Robert Djerassi, the JDC representative in Bulgaria, takes me to a small hut-like...
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photo taken by Andrew Malone , on November 27, 2008, CC licensing Ingredients: - 4 red or green peppers - 2 fluid oz./60 ml. White wine vinegar - 1/2 fluid...
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photo taken by ShellyS , on October 7, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 600 g lochshen - 4 eggs - 100 g sugar - 50 g cinnamon - 150 g...
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photo taken by wundoroo , on April 25, 2010, CC licensing Ingredients: - 6 artichokes - 2 lemons worth of juice - 1,5 tablespoons of sugar - 5 tablespoons of...
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photo taken by Juli Ryan , on May 18, 2009, CC licensing Ingredients: - 1 kg. of celery - 2 carrots - 1 lemon worth of juice - 1 tablespoon...
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