How to Make the Perfect Rosh HaShanah Cheese Board
Here’s how to go about creating your own Rosh HaShanah cheese board, whether to serve as a holiday appetizer or a lunchtime indulgence during the Yamim Noraim.
Homemade Applesauce
Use a microwave to make homemade applesauce!
1 3/4 to 2 pounds fresh apples
2 to 4 tablespoons sugar, to taste
2 tablespoons boiled cider, optional
Mom's Honey Cake with Apple Confit
Honey cake is traditionally eaten for Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year—the honey’s sweetness symbolizes our wishes for a sweet year. This is my mother's recipe, which she makes in Israel, freezes, and sends to me in the mail.
CAKE
2½ cups flour
2 heaping teaspoons baking soda
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup honey
1¼ cup brewed coffee
6 tablespoons canola oil
Salt
Pinch cinnamon
............................................................................................
APPLE CONFIT
3 apples, peeled and sliced thinly crosswise
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean, split
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tablespoon honey
3 cloves
Sally Rosenkranz's Honey Cake
1 hour 30 minutes
Sally's daughter Rita writes, "My late mother, Sally Rosenkranz, who was from Radom, Poland, lost her mother in the Holocaust."
1/2 cup brewed coffee, cooled
3 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon powdered cloves (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons powdered ginger (optional)
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups dark honey
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts or almonds
1 cup raisins (optional)
The Shanahtini - A Rosh HaShanah Cocktail
Entertain your Rosh HaShanah guests while enjoying the traditional holiday nosh of apples, honey, and pomegranate seeds in a new way.
2 Granny Smith apples
1 ½ oz vodka or gin
¾ oz Berentzen Apple Liqueur
½ oz strained lemon juice
Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters
12 oz honey
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp whole cloves
1 tsp whole allspice (not ground)
8 oz water
Pomegranate seeds