VIDEO: How to make doughnuts, latkes and drinks (in Yiddish!)
The latkes are lo-carb, yet just as tasty and crunchy as the original, while the doughnuts are made with vitamin-packed pureed pumpkin
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Food Homemade jelly doughnuts in minutes are the other Hanukkah miracle
If you’re anything like me, you spent yesterday frantically throwing away pumpkins and hanging up menorah and dreidel banners. With Hanukkah beginning on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year, there was scarcely time to breathe between holidays, let alone wait for dough to rise. Jewish cooks who have…
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Food Black And White Cookie Doughnuts Are The Newest Food Abomination
The wheel turns and nothing is new, the saying goes. Except some things are. When our ancestors moved here from the shtetls of Europe, they were not expecting to find their culinary traditions so universally beloved, to the extent that everyone felt the colonialist urge to sink their teeth into them. But sink their teeth…
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Food Israel Takes Doughnut Decoration To Dizzying New Heights
Just before Hanukkah each year, doughnut collections are released in Israel as if they were haute couture Parisienne fashion. The humble Israeli jelly-filled doughnut dusted with powdered sugar has evolved over the last decade or two into doughnuts with show-stopping glazes, decorations, and gimmicks — and palate-tantalizing flavors. Click on the green model below to…
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Slideshows Spectacular Sufganiyot Slideshow
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Recipes Weed-Infused, Caramel-Filled Doughnuts For Hanukkah
Ahhh… the holidays are here, and nothing shouts Hanukkah in Israel as loudly as the sufganiyot vendors dotting the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Their soft and chewy deep-fried holiday doughnuts commemorate the miracle of the Hanukkah oil that burned for eight days in Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, even though there was only enough oil…
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Food How To Choose The Right Oils For Hanukkah Frying
You may think that Hanukkah food is all about latkes and doughnuts, but it’s actually about… fried. Fried food, that is — because of the small jug of oil that miraculously lasted for eight days instead of one. We celebrate the holiday by lighting candles (oil lamps in days gone by) and eating foods fried…
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Recipes 8 Expert Tips For Successful Holiday Frying
Here are some tips to keep in mind when deep-fat frying: 1) Use a deep pan to prevent oil spatter. A spatter guard that covers the top of the pan is helpful too. 2) Use the right oil for the job. See our guide here. 3) Be sure the fat has reached the right temperature…
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