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Cheese latkes (Yiddish: קאַזעס קיכעלעך, romanized: kases kichelech, [citation needed] literally "cheese cookies") are a traditional Jewish dish with ancient roots, especially significant in Ashkenazi cuisine. It is a type of latke pancake made from cheese and is often enjoyed during Hanukkah and other festive occasions. Cheese ...
The earliest known record in a Jewish source of a cake called lekach, from the Middle High German lecke, 'to lick', [5] was in the Medieval ages in Sefer ha-Rokeach by Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, Germany. [1] Many Ashkenazi versions by the 13th century were influenced by or based on Lebkuchen or Honigkuchen (honey cake) recipes found in Germany ...
Ashkenazim or Ashkenazi Jews are literally referring to "German Jews." Many Ashkenazi Jews later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities in non German-speaking areas, including Bohemia (Czech Republic), Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, and elsewhere between the 10th and 19th centuries.
A chocolate babka made with a dough similar to challah, and topped with streusel. It consists of either an enriched or laminated dough; which are similar to those used for challah, and croissants respectively, that has been rolled out and spread with a variety of sweet fillings such as chocolate, cinnamon sugar, apples, sweet cheese, Nutella, mohn, or raisins, which is then braided either as ...
Babka can usually be found among other traditional Jewish desserts on a holiday spread, like black & white cookies, honey cake for Rosh Hashanah, hamantaschen for Purim, Jewish apple cake, and ...
Kichel (Yiddish: קיכל, plural kichlach קיכלעך, the diminutive of קוכן kukhn "cake") is a slightly sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine. Made from eggs, flour, and sugar, the dough is rolled out flat and cut into bow-tie shapes. [1] [2] Commercially prepared kichel are dry, bow-tie shaped pastries sprinkled with sugar. [3]
The Jewish cookbook international cooking according to the Jewish dietary laws. New York Bloch. ISBN 978-0-8197-0058-2. OCLC 614538635. Klein, Ernest David (1987). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (in Hebrew). Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-02-917431-9. OCLC 462199426. Aish HaTorah Women's Organization (1988).
While the majority of Jews who have been living in the Western Levant and Turkey since the time of the first diaspora have been Sefardic, Mizrahi, and other non-Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi communities also existed among the Jewish communities of the southern Syrian provinces in the Ottoman period (the Old Yishuv), and Turkey. [7]