This is the Forward’s coverage of sufganiyot, fried jelly doughnuts traditionally eaten during Hanukkah.
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Recipes Israel’s Secret Hanukkah Doughnut Recipe
In her new cookbook, “Traditional Jewish Baking: Retro Recipes Your Grandma Would Make…If She Had a Mixer,” popular Israel-based cookbook author and TV personality Carine Goren offers what she calls “the best versions of timeless and traditional Jewish baked goods.” The enticing and accessible volume contains over 100 dessert recipes, from Ashkenazi classics such as…
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Fast Forward How ‘Oil Bulbs’ Became Holland’s Hanukkah Treat
Israel has sufganiyot — and Holland has “oil bulbs.” For Jews and others in the Netherlands, the fried dough treats are as ubiquitous here as they are in the Holy Land, JTA reports. Hundreds of food stalls hawk the delicacies known in Dutch as “oliebollen” every year from November to January. “I often don’t bother…
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Community 8 Foods You Didn’t Know Jews Eat During Hanukkah
This piece was contributed by Masa Israel Journey — for more information, click here. This year, like every year since I was a child, I started counting down the days to Hanukkah before the first blow of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. I just can’t wait for the one week when it’s socially acceptable –…
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Food ‘SufganiKing’ Donut Burger Coming for Hanukkah in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Burger King restaurants in Israel have introduced a donut burger for the Hanukkah season. The SufganiKing is a Whopper hamburger with savory donuts in place of buns. Its name is a play on the Hebrew word for donuts, sufganiyot, which are ubiquitous on every Israeli street corner in the weeks leading up…
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Recipes Jelly Doughnuts, Step-By-Step
You can fill these doughnuts with whatever you’d like — here I used raspberry jam. We cut the dough with a drinking glass, which made a dozen. Obviously the number will depend on the size of your glass. 2 packets (2 tablespoons) dry yeast ¾ cup warm water 1 cup whole milk ¾ cup sugar…
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: Someone Else’s Sufganiyot
Photograph courtesy of Breads Bakery I cannot tell a lie: I’ve never made sufganiyot. I feel a little sheepish about this, because when you’re a food editor and a recipe developer, as I am, people seem to expect that you’ve done it all. I was so impressed when I read Gayle Squires’ story last week…
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Food Sweet Chocolate-Filled Sufganiyot
Photograph courtesy of Ilana Schatz On Hanukkah, chocolate need not be confined to gelt. After tasting one of these warm, chocolate-filled sufganiyot, you won’t want to return to the old jelly-filled standard. Use fair trade chocolate to ensure the freedom of cocoa workers on the holiday that celebrates the Maccabees’ fight against oppression. ¾ cup…
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Recipes Time to Make the Doughnuts
On the first night of Hanukkah, we say a shehecheyanu prayer to commemorate the first night of the holiday and the lighting of the menorah candles. But a few years ago, I said shehecheyanu on the night before the first night of Hanukkah to commemorate a first for me: I fried. An Israeli friend had…
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