lemon curd on passover

[hatam_soferet]

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

Likewise seven days shall ye eat the curd of the lemon, being mingled with sugar and the yolk of the egg; upon unleavened bread shalt thou eat it. The curd of the lime and of the orange shalt thou not eat; the curd of the lemon only shalt thou eat.

My least favourite part of Pesach is the bit where you try and pack all the things back into their boxes. Ten days ago they all fitted into the boxes, and you've not bought anything new, but they jolly well don't fit any more. Then you try and tape the boxes closed (because if you don't, you have to start Pesach next year by washing off the dust bunnies and cockroach corpses) and the tape breaks.

But it's done now. Done, scrubbed, vacuumed; other Domestic Things such as planting basil also Done; all good. We would have 100% domesticity WIN except that we haven't done the ironing yet; the dog has decided that the ironing basket is her new favourite place to sleep, and it would be mean to disturb her from her nap.

Oh, charoset awesomeness: grinding up roughly-equal quantities of dates, prunes, apricots, figs, walnuts, fresh apple, and raisins. Some cinnamon. Slosh in enough wine to make it a dough, and shape into balls. Except that this year I couldn't find dried figs, only a jar of fig preserves. This made the whole thing gooey enough that shaping into balls wasn't happening; it had roughly the consistency of jam, and it was yummy.

Finally, a First: yesterday was the first time in my life ever that I've chosen one brand in the supermarket over another because it had my shul's hashgacha. Flour, for the record, and the KAJ hashgacha. What have I become?

Comments

[lethargic_man]

Likewise seven days shall ye eat the curd of the lemon, being mingled with sugar and the yolk of the egg; upon unleavened bread shalt thou eat it. The curd of the lime and of the orange shalt thou not eat; the curd of the lemon only shalt thou eat.

Oh, so it's not only my family that does that. Why do we do that?

(I once got lemon curd during the middle of the year, and very strange it felt eating it too!)

[hatam_soferet]

We do it because of all those cake recipes that call for whipped egg whites, of course! Lemon curd is how you use up the yolks.

[lethargic_man]

Ah, a mystery solved (for those of us who have never made a cake).

[hatam_soferet]

Hahaha, I was wondering how you could possibly have not noticed all those pesach recipes which call for "5 egg whites whipped to peaks," but that explains it...

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[(Anonymous)]

That’s not just logic. That’s really senislbe.

I sent you an e-mail...

[(Anonymous)]

...but maybe it got caught in your spam filter? Or maybe you've just been busy with Pesach and recovering from Pesach (like in this post) and life in general and haven't been able to reply? I'm writing about a possible ketubah commission, and I'd be happy to resend the e-mail (but I'd rather not post the contents on here). Please reply here or to potter66 at hotmail -- thanks!
--Karen

P.S. I love reading your blog!

[llennhoff]

The 'traditional Passover food that we make for ourselves' in our house is mango chutney. The recipe comes from The When You Live in Hawaii You Get Very Creative During Passover Cookbook. We first made it because we had never made mango chutney, and we wanted something unusual for Passover.

[hatam_soferet]

Ooh, I remember having mango chutney. Not on Passover though.

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[(Anonymous)]

AKAIK you've got the aneswr in one!

[liv]

Eee, someone else who knows about the When you live in Hawaii cookbook! One of my Dad's college friends is now a professor in Hawaii and he gave us a copy of that book one year. It's very useful, especially as we keep the Reform minhag of preparing all Pesach food (except actual matza!) from scratch and not buying pre-packaged Pesachdik substitutes.

[furtivepatach]

We made some actual matzah from scratch this year. It was awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

I assume your lemon curd law is a joke. I don't like lemon curd though if it involves cooking it I won't get an allergy. I put my chametz in the oven and seal. I also included normal stuff that had wheat flour on it I could not get rid of. It did not all fit in so I had to put the toaster in a box. I had to tape it several times to force it close. Lethargic_man said that people put on weight on Pesach. I actually lost because I could fill myself with bread. I have to cook properly and when I went to a seder they just gave us small portions. The first one I spent in somebody's house and had to beg for every tiny bit to eat. The communal one I only had two pieces of salmon. That was all on the plate. Otherwise there was only a bit of salat with cheese. My guest was vegan and she got ill from eggs and dairy products and tomatoes. She had to order extra salat. I felt like a beggar all the time or Oliver Twist who said: "Please, sir, I want some more."

curious_reader

[(Anonymous)]

I forgot to say I grow herbs in my kitchen, too. I grow basil and corriander. Corriander has much more grown than basil but I used different types of soil. I bought more basil seed recently and hope to get more basil.

I ruined one of my stove rings on my ceramic oven. All the others are fine. I covered the whole kitchen area with foil and maybe I was not careful enough with the tape. The surface is partially off.

curious_reader

[hatam_soferet]

It is a joke, don't worry. Mazal tov on growing herbs. It's always nice when you can do that!

Sorry about the stove rings. I don't cover things in foil, so I don't have that problem; I always feel kind of sorry for the people who do, it's so much work.

Gut woch!

[curious_reader]

Thank you. I am still working on the basil. I expected to get a lot more but maybe the next seeds will come out. I have a dreamwidth account now as lethargic_man was so nice to send me a code.
I am not good in scrubbing off all dirt and stain thoroughly. That is why I cover things. I will be more careful next time. It is a small kitchen area therefore not as much work as you think. It just an open-plan kitchen in the living room.
I only got spam on LJ when I made my post public.