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FREE recipes desserts crafts health ideas ... Jewish Cuisine Hanukkah Ideas Join our crafts and cooking groups "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Challah" Many families interweave the traditions of different religions. My friends, Scott and Deirdre, who were raised in Jewish and Roman Catholic families, respectively, combined their religions when they married and now look ahead to educating their children, families and friends through the richness each religion brings into their lives. Find out more with a wonderful essay from my friend Dierdre. Hanukkah Cookies This week's Cookie of the Week features Hanukkah Cookies. Hanukkah is an important Jewish holiday which is celebrated in December for 8 consecutive days. Along with some history, we offer up a great bit of Jewish Cuisine Cookie Gift Jar This Gift Jar is the perfect way to say Happy Holidays in a warm and fun way. What an exciting way to share cookies without all the fuss. Want to send cookies, but no time to make them? Well, all you have to do is assemble these simple ingredients in an inexpensive wide mouth quart jar and presto you are sending cookies! Brownies in a Jar Gift Everyone loves brownies. Brownies are the perfect gift and you'll love our Brownies in a Jar. All you need is a one quart jar that you can pick up at your local craft store. Just take the ingredients for the Double Fudge Brownie Mix and fill the jar. You can make the jar festive by using a colorful ribbon to tie on the recipe instructions along with a note from you. Using a small piece of material you can also cover the lid of the jar add the ribbon and you have "wrapped" your gift!

62. Dessert Library: Hanukkah Cookies hanukkah Cookies redchk.gif (175 bytes) Join our crafts and cooking groups baking.jpg (7898 bytes) cornucopia.gif (8601 bytes) http://www.homeschoolzone.com/m2m/recipes/hanukkahcookies.htm

Dessert Library Baking Jewish Cuisine Hanukkah Cookies Join our crafts and cooking groups This week's Cookie of the Week features Hanukkah Cookies. Hanukkah is an important Jewish holiday which is celebrated in December for 8 consecutive days. Along with some history, we offer up a great bit of Jewish Cuisine A Bit of History Hanukkah Cookies Yield: about 6 dozen What You Need: 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar egg 1/2 cup orange or pineapple juice 2 teaspoon baking powder 2 1/2 cup flour + extra for rolling What You Do: In bowl, add ingredients in the above order , mixing well after each addition (you can do it in a processor too). Using half of the dough roll on a floured board. Cut into holiday shapes-dreidel, star Can decorate (lion eye, dreidel lines, candle tip, etc.) with chocolate chip, raisin, sprinkles, colored sugar, etc. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes or so till lightly browned. They firm up a bit more as they cool. Freeze well, but they won't last that long. NOTE: If making different shapes, try and make all of one shape on a tray because the different sizes don't bake at the same rate; some will burn and others will be underbaked.

63. Elementary Cooking Activities Potato Latkes for hanukkah. 30 Minutes. Latkes are a traditional symbolic food served for hanukkah. They are usually made of potatoes and sometimes http://www.familytlc.net/issues/december2004/cooking_8_5358.html

baby Chocolate Candy Balls Benne Cakes for Kwanzaa Apple Jelly Gift Snack Potato Latkes for Hanukkah Nutty Banana Nuggets How I Saved Hanukkah The Magic Menorah: A Modern Chanukah Tale Potato Latkes for Hanukkah [30 Minutes] Latkes are a traditional symbolic food served for Hanukkah. They are usually made of potatoes and sometimes cheeses and they are fried in oil. In 165 B.C. when the Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee You'll need: What to do: If possible, print out these directions. Read them through with your child before you begin. With your child, gather everything you'll need. Help your child wash and grate the potatoes, put them in a bowl. Grate the onion and combine with the grated potatoes in the bowl. Invite your child to add flour and eggs to the bowl. Stir. Coat a frying pan with oil. Carefully drop small tablespoons of the potato mixture into hot oil. Loosen the latke with the spatula to keep it from sticking. Show your child how to turn over the latke to brown the other side. Carefully remove the pancakes and drain them on paper towels. Serve with applesauce and/or sour cream.

64. Primary Cooking Activities Are you going to serve these cookies during hanukkah? While you are cooking together, this activity provides experiences for developing math skills, http://www.familytlc.net/issues/december2004/cooking_5_7120.html

baby Graham Cracker House A Batch of Hanukkah Cookies Dried Fruit Wreath Holiday Spice Bags Peanut Butter Pile-Ups Festival of Lights: The Story of Hanukkah ... Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat: A Chanukah Story A Batch of Hanukkah Cookies [60 Minutes] Put a little spice into your holiday as you make these special cookies. You'll need: What to do: Together, wash your hands before cooking. Invite your child to help you thoroughly mix together margarine and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer. Beat in honey and egg until well mixed. In a second bowl, your child can help combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Help with with the measuring. Have him add this to the honey mixture. Beat on low speed until well blended. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 3 days. After refrigerating the cookie dough, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place a portion of the dough on a flour-covered cutting board. Sprinkle some flour on the rolling pin, and show your child how to roll out the cookie dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Together cut out cookies using holiday cookie cutters.

65. Favorite Things : Fine Living Essentials : Hanukkah Baking With Kids : Fine Livi cooking and eating are central parts of many holidays around the world, cooking Jewish www.cookingjewish.com. The Food Network hanukkah Recipes http://www.fineliving.com/fine/favorite_things_essentials/article/0,1663,FINE_14

Adventure Every Day Personal Space Transport ... Practical Living Message Board Meet and greet, share advice, get great tips and info on fine foods, products, places, etc. Get FINE LIVING today On TELEVISION ... Inside FINE LIVING: Wine, Cocktails and Travel Picks Making cookies can help kids get excited about the holiday. Hanukkah Baking With Kids Cooking and eating are central parts of many holidays around the world, and Hanukkah is no exception. Among the many wonderful recipes that Jewish families prepare for the eight nights of Hanukkah are plenty of sweets and desserts, and making these can be a great opportunity to involve kids in the holiday. Judy Bart Kancigor is the author of the highly popular cookbook Melting Pot Memories , which she wrote to preserve the recipes and stories of her own Jewish family. Seven printings later, Kancigor has a new career as a guest speaker, a cooking instructor for the Sur La Table chain and a columnist and freelance food writer whose work has appeared in many publications. Here she offers a few kid-friendly ideas for Hanukkah baking: Use cookie cutters.

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68. MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Taking Christmas Out Of Hanukkah A Personal Perspective Taking the Christmas out of hanukkah As American Jews, of hanukkah and Jews should innovate far more with cooking with oil. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Hanukkah/TO_Hanukkah_Themes/Wolfson_Dec

A Personal Perspective Taking the Christmas out of Hanukkah As American Jews, we face the challenge of preserving the Jewish ideals of Hanukkah in the midst of a commercialized Christmas-oriented society. By Yosef I. Abramowitz The following article is reprinted with permission from Almost every year, Hanukkah falls very near to Christmas, which always leads to feel-good articles and sermons about the similarities in spirit between Judaism and Christianity. Interfaith families, especially those with children, will celebrate both as a way of bringing their families together. And the marketing, sales, and merchandising will further solidify the linking of these two holidays in the American popular consciousness. The American Jewish community, a mere 2.7 percent of the U.S. population, has watched with amusement as our minor festival has increasingly been elevated to near-equal status as Christmas. We have seen this trend as a validation of not only our buying power, but of our political and social standing in society. As generation after generation of American Jews watched America convince itself of our growing social importance, however, we failed to understand the dangers inherent in our tacit approval of the Christmasification of Hanukkah. For the sake of both Judaism and Christianity, American Jews must draw a line in the spiritual snow. The danger to both Judaism and Christianity comes from the rabid materialism of the United States, where the commercialization of our winter holidays has transformed and bastardized both.

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70. Potato Kugel Recipe | Potato Recipes| Hanukkah Recipes @ CDKitchen.com :: It's W A recipe for Potato Kugel Potato Recipes hanukkah Recipes - Ingredients Copy cat restaurant clone recipes, crockpot recipes, cooking links, http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/64/Potato_Kugel58330.shtml

All Recipe Title Ingredients CDKitchen submit a recipe contact us cooking: ... cooking games NEW! cooking jigsaw puzzles recipes: all new NEW! 30 minute crockpot kids healthy ... copycat You are here: CDKitchen Recipes Side Dish Recipes Potato Recipes Potato Kugel Recipe Serves/Makes: reset servings Submitted by: Janell, Rhode Island, USA Ready in: 1-2 hrs Difficulty: (1=easiest :: hardest=5) Categories: Potato Recipes Hanukkah Recipes Kugel Recipes Read Reviews ... Rate This Recipe email this recipe printer friendly version print 3x5 notecard print 4x6 notecard add to recipEbox Ingredients: 6 medium-sized russet potatoes peeled 2 carrots peeled 1 onion 1 clove garlic minced 2 eggs beaten 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 teaspoons salt 1/4 cup whole-grain bread crumbs 3/4 cup powdered non-fat milk TOPPING: 1 cup cheddar cheese grated 1 cup plain yogurt or sour cream fresh chives for garnish, optional Directions: Grate vegetables; drain off liquid. Stir in remaining ingredients except topping, adding powdered milk gradually to avoid any lumps. Spread into greased 7-in. x 11-in. baking pan. (Can also use 9-in. square pan with additional baking time.) Bake at 350° for 40-60 minutes. When kugel is nearly done it will test dry like a cake and the edges will be brown. Add grated cheese and return to oven for 5 more minutes until cheese melts. Remove from oven; cut into 2-in. squares. Top each square with about 2 tablespoons yogurt or sour cream. Garnish with fresh chives, if desired.

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72. Emerils.com | Notes From The Kitchen What s cooking for hanukkah. by William S. Sandy Kaplan. So I ma Jewish kid growing up in the heart of Catholic country and all my friends are talking http://www.emerils.com/cooking/archives/000059.html

var menu_x_coord = 376; var menu_y_coord = 90; Please sign in or visit our recipe database! RECIPES Emeril's Notes From the Kitchen Main December 21, 2003 What's Cooking for Hanukkah by William S. "Sandy" Kaplan So I'm a Jewish kid growing up in the heart of Catholic country and all my friends are talking about what they're having for Christmas dinner-Roast Turkey with Cornbread Dressing, Baked Sweet Potato's with Marshmallows, Pecan Pie and the like. When it comes around to me I'm talking about Potato Latkes (potato pancakes), Kugel (baked noodles with raisins, walnuts, brown sugar), Roast Chicken, Smoked Salmon and Hamantaschen (yeast dough cookies with fruit or poppy seed filling). There are a lot of similarities in ethnic cooking, your own Momma or Grandma was the best that ever was, whether you're Jewish, Italian, Irish, Cajun or whatever and her kitchen always smelled wonderful. The most amazing thing is that you always knew what you were eating, if it had chicken in it, it looked like chicken, it smelled like chicken and it tasted like chicken, no fancy-shmancy exotic stuff was to be found. There was no nouvelle anything, just good solid stick-to-your-ribs food. With Jewish food you know what you're eating, it's very simple fare, it's tasty and there is always plenty of it, and it always, always makes you happy. Sometimes it even makes you well when you're sick, as in the case Chicken and Matzo Ball Soup!

73. Hanukah Hanukkah Chanukah Traditions Jewish Holiday cooking hanukkah You will find a few holiday recipes. From sallys-place.com - http//www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fiszer/hanukah. http://www.archaeolink.com/hanukah_traditions.htm

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75. Hanukkah Cookie Kit Kids cooking Club Delivering kidtested and delicious projects right to your door Kit includes 3 collectible hanukkah cookie cutters -Star of David, http://www.kidscook.com/kits/hanukkah.ASP

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76. Book Christmas & Hanukkah Books price comparison and prices (Christmas hanukkah). BOOKS cooking, FOOD WINE SPECIAL OCCASIONS CHRISTMAS hanukkah http://books.idealo.com/204R18C11K0-Cooking-Food-Wine-Special-Occasions-Christma

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77. Hanukkah Recipes - Chanukkah Recipes hanukkah recipes to make with children, potato latke recipe, 1/2 cup cooking oil cooking Instructions After grating the potatoes, drain as much of the http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/holiday_hanukkah_recipes.htm

Home Parties Crafts Play ... Free Newsletter Hanukkah Recipes Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights is a holiday shared with family and friends. These are traditional recipes that you can make with your children. Potato Latkes A delicious traditional Hanukkah dish. Children can help with the preparation but young children should NOT help when it comes time to use the hot oil. Ingredients: 2 cups peeled and shredded potatoes 1 tablespoon grated onion 3 eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup cooking oil Cooking Instructions: After grating the potatoes, drain as much of the liquid as possible. A salad spinner works well. In a medium bowl stir the potatoes, onion, eggs, flour and salt together. In a large heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat, heat the oil until hot. Place large spoonfuls of the potato

78. Eight Days Of Hanukkah On the eight night of hanukkah my true love gave to me, 8 fiddlers fiddling, 7 rabbis dancing, 6 grandmas cooking, 5 kosher dills, http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/Bard.book/eight.days.html

Eight Days of Hanukkah Words by : ? Tune of : Twelve Days of Christmas On the first night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, A warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the second night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 2 matzah balls and a warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the third night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 3 golden latkes, 2 matzah balls, And a warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the fourth night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 4 pounds of corned beef, 3 golden latkes, 2 matzah balls, And a warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the fifth night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 5 kosher dills, 4 pounds of corned beef, 3 golden latkes, 2 matzah balls, And a warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the sixth night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 6 grandmas cooking, 5 kosher dills, 4 pounds of corned beef, 3 golden latkes, 2 matzah balls, And a warm bagel topped with cream cheese... On the seventh night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me, 7 rabbis dancing

79. Xpress For Hanukkah The eight candles have all been lit, and as hanukkah draws to a close today at sundown, Was the smell of cooking latkes, the ones I would eat soon. http://www.sptimes.com/News/121701/Xpress/For_Hanukkah.shtml

80. FoodFit's Table: Low Fat Healthy Recipes,nutrition,fitness Celebrate the Festival of Lights with Joan s heavenly hanukkah treats host and producer of the PBS series, Jewish cooking in America with Joan Nathan. http://www.foodfit.com/cooking/archive/foodfitstable_nov15.asp

Recipe Search BROWSE Recipes Articles HOME FOODFIT PLAN ... COMMUNITY For a savory Hanukkah treat, try our low fat latkes Learn about more Jewish food traditions A Low-Fat Celebration of Oil By Joan Nathan Hanukkah starts this year at sundown on November 29. It's a celebration of religious freedom, but also a celebration of oil and the miracle that provided light for the Jews for eight days instead of just one. It is the oil, not the commonly eaten potato latkes (pancakes) or soufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) that is symbolic at this celebration of freedom and festival of lights. The Importance of Oil Celebrating oil as a symbol of religious freedom dates back only twenty-two centuries, to 165 B.C., just after the Syrians had raided and damaged the Temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees, the small Jewish army that had miraculously defeated the large Syrian one, returned to the Temple to repair it. According to the traditional story of Hanukkah, the Maccabees found only enough sacred oil, olive oil specifically, to light the menorah for one day. But, somehow, one day's oil supply lasted eight, and thus the oil is now symbolic of the cleansing and rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. Hanukkah is celebrated for eight nights to commemorate this miracle. A Celebration of Light Each night at sundown a candle placed in a menorah, from right to left, and lit by the shammas (helper candle), from left to right, until the eighth night when the eight-candled menorah is aglow. Many Jews rejoice in their freedom to be able to celebrate without fear of persecution by giving gifts and eating foods fried in oil such as latkes and jelly doughnuts. Were there jelly doughnuts in ancient Israel? Were there potatoes? Of course not. Jelly is a modern ingredient and potatoes did not even hit the holy land until the latter half of the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

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