Please tell me what these foods are - thanks!
MaryLyon
I'm rehearsing a musical right now, and my character is a Kosher caterer. I
sing about several different foodstuffs - would you be so kind as to tell me
what I'm singing about?
rugelach
canedelach (sp?)
Also, a character sings that looking at another character is "like eating
treyf" - what is treyf?
Many many thanks - also, if anyone has a favorite recipe for the above, I'd
love too check it out - perhaps I'll try my hand at making these dishes!
Many thanks!
Amy :)
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Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879
> Hello everyone!
> rugelach
Ah, one of my favorites (I make it myself occasionally). To make rugelach,
you roll out a very thin circle of a dough that is something between cookie
dough and the kind of dough you'd use for strudel. Then, sprinkle the
circle with filling, typically chopped nuts and cinnamon sugar, perhaps
with chopped dates or rasins mixed in, but I've also seen jelly, poppyseed
and chocolate fillings, and finally, cut it into pie-slices about 2 inches
wide at the perimeter, and roll them up tightly, starting at the edge and
working toward the center. Finally, bake them like cookies.
I've seen the result described as a cross between French croissants and
Austrian strudel. Fair enough. You eat them like cookies.
> canedelach (sp?)
Kneidlach. Matzah balls. That is, dumplings made from matzah meal,
typically cooked in chicken soup. Matzah meal is meal made by grinding
matzah, unleavened bread. Because the matzah is cooked to the point of
being brittle, and toasted brown on the high spots in the process, it has
an interesting slightly burnt tang that distinguihes things cooked with
matzah meal from the results you'd get by using flour to make otherwise
similar dumplings. The dumplings may be slightly leavened with baking
soda, but they don't float! They are bound with egg; since the matzah
was pretty well toasted prior to grinding into meal, you can't use the
gluten in the meal to bind the dumplings.
> Also, a character sings that looking at another character is "like eating
> treyf" - what is treyf?
Treif or treyf is forbidden food. In colloquial usage, it refers to any
food that isn't kosher. Cheeseburgers, lobster, porkchops, etc. Treif
food is seductive, you get these huge MacDonalds billboards with a big mac
on them, or Red Lobster billboards, with a steaming delicious looking
lobster on it, and you know you're forbidden by Jewish law to take even
the smallest sample to find out how it tastes. The connotations in Jewish
culture can, therefore, be like those a Christian might understand when
someone talks of "tasting the forbidden fruit", but in a far more literal
sense.
Doug Jones
jo...@cs.uiowa.edu
Blanche Nonken
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm rehearsing a musical right now, and my character is a Kosher caterer. I
> sing about several different foodstuffs - would you be so kind as to tell me
> what I'm singing about?
>
> rugelach
> canedelach (sp?)
Kneidlach is another word for matzah balls. Firm dumpling-like balls,
made from ground matza and egg, served traditionally in chicken broth.
>
> Also, a character sings that looking at another character is "like eating
> treyf" - what is treyf?
"Treyf" is another word for "Not Kosher."
Joe Slater
>I'm rehearsing a musical right now, and my character is a Kosher caterer. I
>sing about several different foodstuffs - would you be so kind as to tell me
>what I'm singing about?
>rugelach
Little pastries with a sweet filling.
>canedelach (sp?)
Usually spelt "kneidlach". Dumplings eaten in soup, often made with
matza (a flat crisp bread) crumbs.
>Also, a character sings that looking at another character is "like eating
>treyf" - what is treyf?
Food that isn't kosher; that is, which may not be eaten according to
Jewish law.
>Many many thanks - also, if anyone has a favorite recipe for the above, I'd
>love too check it out - perhaps I'll try my hand at making these dishes!
Check the archive here:
> rec.food.cuisine.jewish recipe archives
> <http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/rfcj>
jds
Lee Gold
>
> rugelach
cookies
> canedelach (sp?)
matzo balls
> Also, a character sings that looking at another character is "like eating
> treyf" - what is treyf?
Forbidden food. Insects, pork, shellfish, animals that
died of disease or were not killed properly by a kosher
butcher. By extension, forbidden combinations
mixing dairy and meat (say, in a cheeseburger).