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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-09-09 10:18 pm

But we've still got something left to give, to live for

Because neither of the next two nights works for everyone in my family to get together, we celebrated Erev Rosh Hashanah with apples and honey, roast chicken, challah, zucchini (accidental gourd!), and the honeycake my mother and I spent yesterday afternoon baking. I lit candles. I said the blessings. This year it looks like the Shehecheyanu is the important one. Here we still are to see this season in, bitter or sweet, but may it be sweet. May it be sweet. May the writing of our lives be nothing to atone for. L'shanah tovah, all.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-09-10 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah!
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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2018-09-10 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah!
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[personal profile] hawkwing_lb 2018-09-10 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah.

I've been reading your posts lately and not commenting, but. I think this is a good time to say I like and admire you, and your writing means a great deal to me. And your poems speak to my heart.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*sneaks you a large piece of honey cake*
I can't say for positive, but I think Taaffe honey cake comes with a high proof warning (my own has a quarter cup of whiskey; theirs must have a half).
Edited 2018-09-10 17:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hawkwing_lb 2018-09-10 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheers and thank you.
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2018-09-10 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds delicious.
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[personal profile] hawkwing_lb 2018-09-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
<3
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2018-09-10 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A good year and a sweet one!
May it be filled with success and good health for all of us, and the victory of the ethical artichoke at all levels.
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[personal profile] isis 2018-09-10 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
A sweet year to you! I had a birthday party to go to but they had sliced apples among the other goodies, and I dipped it in my wine in lieu of honey. :-)
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[personal profile] phi 2018-09-10 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah!
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[personal profile] phi 2018-09-15 12:20 am (UTC)(link)

A little late to answer, but no, he may not have honey yet. Alas.

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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-09-10 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
A belated but sincere wish of a sweet year to you.

I am curious about the honeycake, but don't want to be demanding secret family recipes or anything of that sort. I used to make a honeycake from a Hungarian cookbook that was extremely good, but it didn't have any whiskey in it.

P.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-09-10 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fascinating. The one I used, until I was no longer friends with eggs, also had almonds on top, but no raisins. Lots of eggs, which you separated and whipped the whites of to be carefully folded in near the end. Some spices I don't recall, except for cardamom. A cousin once removed of your recipe, perhaps.

P.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-09-10 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the recipes with tweaks for particular people are the best recipes. Well, up to a point, anyway. I have not figured out an egg-replacement tweak for mine yet. But I haven't tried everything, either.

P.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-11 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I've used straight-up powdered egg replacer in the Seventies-looking box, before; works fine.

A recipe with separated, volumized eggs suggests a Warsaw relation somewhere along the way. Layered honey cake is usually Russian and semolina-flour honey cake is Hungarian. Rum raisin honey cake, I think, is Lexingtonian. :)

...Sometimes I get to talk about cake with Pamela Dean OH MY GOD. *faints*
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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-09-11 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got some. It is a pretty funny box. But it didn't quite work for this recipe. The stuff whipped up fine and was, I think, a good replacement for the egg whites. But without yolks, the rest of the cake just wasn't right. This didn't stop us from eating it all, but it niggles at me.

This recipe was in a cookbook written by a Hungarian who came to the US and ran an amazing restaurant in Chicago for many years, but who's to say where he got it? I am now intrigued by the idea of layered honey cakes.

I was puzzled by the raisins, but they sound delicious.

*hunts helplessly for sal volatile* I think you know a lot more about cake than I do, so I'm much obliged.

P.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I am a good eater and a decent baker, and the Jewish genealogy of recipes is very important to me. :)

What wasn't quite right when you used the egg replacer? Did it feel cloth-y, or was the cake just lean-feeling and not plush enough? There are fixes to either problem if you care to elaborate from memory.
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2018-09-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah!

Nine
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[personal profile] brigdh 2018-09-11 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
L'shanah tovah!

And I'm very jealous of your homemade honeycake.
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[personal profile] brigdh 2018-09-12 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am trying to figure out how to ask without being insulting if you normally bake your own honeycake and just not this year or what.

I'm not insulted! I'm not much of a baker, so no, honeycake is not a usual thing for me. I only help with the eating part.
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[personal profile] ada_hoffmann 2018-09-12 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Here we still are to see this season in, bitter or sweet, but may it be sweet. May it be sweet.

I don't know from Jewish rituals, but I needed to read this line today. Thank you.