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Rosh Hashanah Dessert Recipe: Plum Cake from Melissa Clark, with Chozen Ice Cream

For Rosh Hashanah, ditch the traditional honey cake and try Melissa Clark’s plum cake, maybe with a scoop of Chozen’s intensely rich kosher ice cream, on top.  (Mix up your holidays and pick Matzoh Crunch.) Clark has a new cookbook out–In he Kitchen with A Good Appetite–which I’ll review later this week. Meanwhile, she continues [...]

Rosh Hashanah Recipe: Saffron and Honey Cake

Chef Renee Marton offers up this honey cake enriched with saffron for the Jewish New Year. SAFFRON AND HONEY CAKE From the land of milk and honey… I contributed this recipe to a book called The Good Book Cookbook- Recipes from Biblical Times, by Goodman, Marcus and Woolhandler, (Dodd, Mead,  1986). I’ve re-written the recipe [...]

Upper West Side: A Rosh Hashanah Cooking Lesson from the JCC

Looking for Rosh Hashanah cooking ideas? Check out this “Today” show video featuring Julie Negrin, director of the NewYork JCC culinary program. Negrin teaches Al Roker how to make challah for the Jewish New Year. What’s challah taste like?  Just ask “Today” anchor Ann Curry. “It tastes just like brioche, doesn’t it, really?” Hmmm. Tweet

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Jumps the High Holidays Gun

Who can think of shtetl food like brisket and stuffed cabage when it’s 110 degrees in the shade?  But for Zabar’s, the venerable Jewish food emporium on Broadway, it’s apparently not too early to begin urging you to plan your New Year’s or Yom Kippur Break Fast menu.  So if cooking is not your thing [...]

Recipe: Teddie’s Apple Cake for Rosh Hashanah or Any Time

One of the great desserts of all times, Teddie’s Apple Cake is perfect for the High Holidays, and especially for Rosh Hashanah. In fact, you’ll love this cake even if you’re not Jewish. It’s moist and filled with nuts, apples and raisins. Perfect with a cup of tea or for Sunday brunch. Click here for the the [...]