Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Homemade Matzah!

In honor of פסח שני, today we made homemade Matzah! I thought about doing it last year but when I realized that פסח שני fell out on a Friday last year, I abandoned that thought. Well this year, I decided to do it...and we had LOADS of fun! My neighbor has a "reddler" (the roller that punches holes in the Matzah) and the kids had tons of fun using it!

We did learn a few things about Matzah baking- its NOT easy (and we didn't even have an 18-minute time limit!) You've got to roll them REALLY thin, and its very hard to get a nice round circle shape (I guess that comes with practice). And you've really got to keep an eye on them in the oven, or else in a second they can burn (and that's in our toaster oven... never mind a real stone furnace!)

So I guess we won't be opening a professional Matzah bakery just yet...but we sure had fun making them! (and they were delicious too- we ate them for supper!)


2 comments:

Ruthie Blumenkopf said...

That's so much fun! Next time you're planning such exciting afternoon activities, let us know in advance... it may be worth the trip!

Unknown said...

Fun, maybe. Impressive- for sure! Kol Hakavod!!! :)