Month: October 2018
The Unexpected Origins of the Common Marble Cake
October 22, 2018
Originating in early nineteenth-century Germany, the marble cake is a relative newcomer to the Jewish baking pantheon (at least compared to such venerable sweets as honey cake). But it turns out that marble cake as we know it is even newer than that: rather than the familiar chocolate and vanilla, the earliest variants consisted of […]
Potatoes Are the New Chestnuts: German Chestnut Crème from The German-Jewish Cookbook
October 15, 2018
Orange is the new black. Thursday is the new Friday. 30 is the new 20. Potatoes are the new… chestnuts?! Yes, while our sad Eastern European forefathers and mothers were busy chowing down on, like, black radishes and parsley root, their Southern and Central European brethren were living the (comparative) good life on a chestnut-based […]
Vegetables You Should Know: Sorrel Noodle Kugel
October 3, 2018
A while back ago, I shared with you the first of my go-to sorrel recipes. Now I’m back with the second (and, thus far, only other): sorrel noodle kugel. This is kind of at the other end of the spectrum from that sorrel hummus, but it’s equally delicious in its own way. Where the hummus […]