29 March 2012
Jewish
For those that don’t know, a challah is a braided bread usually served on Sabbath. It’s a similar bread to brioche and I’ve stepped away from the traditional methods by adding spices and using jaggery and poppy seeds. Rather than faff around with complicated braiding I’ve just rolled strips of the dough into poppy seeds [...]
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7 March 2012
Cookies
The Jewish festival of Purim falls on 8 March and one of the traditional things to make, and eat, are these little triangular cookies that are filled with a sweet centre. A hamantash supposedly symbolises the defeated enemy of the Jewish people, resembling the hat or ears of Haman (depends who you talk to), the [...]
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