PASSOVER Mandel Brot ala Margalit

Margalit and I always confer about our Passover Menus.... Here is a great recipe that she enjoyed from her friend Janet. It has become a favorite of both of us.


INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 lb ( 2 sticks) butter
• 6 eggs, added one at a time
• 2 and 3/4 cups Matzo Cake Meal
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 3/4 cup Potato Starch
• 1 cup Chocolate Bits
• 1 cup Chopped nuts ( I enjoy walnuts)

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Grease cookie sheet (with either pam, or butter). You can line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Cream the sugar, butter, and eggs (added one at a time)
• Combine the matzo cake meal, salt, and potato starch.
• Add the chocolate bits and nuts.
• Form three (3) loaves , using wet hands so that the mixture does not stick to your hands.
• Bake for 35 minutes, then remove from oven... slice... and bake for an additional 10 minutes.

OPTIONAL: Chocolate Mandel Brot

• Add 4 Tablespoons of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder to mixture. You can add White Chocolate Bits and/or Macadamian Nuts.

Aunt Janice's Matzo Farfel KUGEL

Each year we meet for our traditional seder... I make the first seder and my sister Susan makes the second. It is simply done that way.... Everyone brings something and that "something" becomes their specialty. One year I tried to make Aunt Janice's Kugel... and it was OK, but just OK.. Here is her recipe. Try it on your own.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb Farfel
• 2 cups hot water
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 7 eggs
• 1/2 lb ( 2 sticks) Margarine
• 3/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1 large Can Peaches ( drained... save the syrup)

DIRECTIONS

• Place farfel in the strainer.... and pour hot water over the farfel.
• Beat eggs, and add to farfel.
• Melt margarine ( or butter) and add.
• Add syrup and other ingredients, retaining the peaches.
• Place HALF of the ingredients in an ungreased 9x13 pyrex roasting pan.
• Add a layer of peaches.
• Add the remaining HALF of the ingredients and TOP with a layer of peaches.
• Sprinkle a mixture of Cinammon and Sugar on top.
• BAKE for ONE HOUR at 375 degrees.
• ENJOY!