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■Friday, December 8, 1961
Cooking With A Tam
A Special Holiday
Menu For Chanukah
By MILDRED GROSBERG BELLIN
(Copyright, 1961, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Ours is such an ancient heritage that a holiday only
2126 years old seems almost new. Chanukah, the Feast of
Lights, celebrates a real, historic victory, the triumph of
the Maccabees over Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria.
With each night the increasingly brighter glow of the
candles in Jewish homes com
memorates both the miracle
of the oil which burned for
eight days and the even
greater miracle of the restor
ation of our religious free
dom.
Chanukah is a time for
feasting and merrymaking,
with many delightful dishes
served at family meals.
These dishes derive from
custom rather than ritual
law. Oddly enough, the most
popular, latkes or pancakes,
developed from a tradition
which was not an actual part
of the history of Chanukah.
In the Book of Judith in the
Apocrypha the story is told
that Judith fed Holofernes,
the general of Nebuchadnez
zar, King of Bablylon, cakes
of cheese to make him thirs
ty, so that he would drink
excessively, and so could be
destroyed. While this story
refers to a much earlier era
than that of the Maccabees,
the spirit is so similar that
the commemoration is not
amiss at this time.
Many groups of Jewish
people still serve dairy dishes
during Chanukah in remem
brance of Judith’s bravery,
and include among them pan
cakes of cheese. In other
groups the cheese pancakes
have evolved into other types
of latke, including our own
beloved ones of potato.
On the continent, it was
customary during Chanukah,
either for the Friday night
meal or that of the fifth eve
ning, to serve a menu which
featured roast goose. For our
main course today we too
feature roast goose, prepared
in a manner which was a
favorite in Central Europe.
With it we have our potato
latkes and apple sauce, since
these were traditional accom
paniments to goose. Chopped
goose liver on canape crack
ers and tomato juice begin
the meal. Then, since the
main course is very rich in
deed, for dessert we have a
cool and refreshing lemon
ice, with perhaps plain
sponge cake or cookies. If
the cookies are cut out with
the special cutters available
for the holidays they can be
made in the form of dreidles
and candles and add extra
symbolism to the meal.
CHANUKAH MENU
Chopped goose liver
canapes with tomato juice
Goose stuffed with fruit
Potato Latkes
Candied Carrots
Apple Sauce
Mixed Sweet Pickles
Tossed Salad
Lemon Ice
Sponge cake or cookies
Tea or black coffee
GOOSE STUFFED WITH
FRUIT
1 goose, about 12 pounds
eviscerated weight
2 cups drained, pitted
cooked prunes
6 medium apples, peeled,
cored, and quartered
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1 teaspoon salt
Yt teaspoon pepper
14 teaspoon ground ginger
Have the goose prepared
for stuffing, cut off the neck
at the body, but leave on the
neck skin. Remove as much
fat as possible from the cav
ity and under the skin. Re
serve eight of the prunes for
garnish and cut the rest in
half. Mix the apples with the
prunes. Combine the salt,
pepper, and ginger, and
spread this mixture inside
the goose and over the skin.
Fill the cavity loosely with
fruit, fasten with skewers,
and lace with heavy thread.
Loop the thread around the
ends of the legs and tie them
together. Fasten down the
neck skin. Prick the entire
surface of the goose with the
prongs of a fork. Place,
breast down on the rack of
a roasting pan, and roast un
covered at 325 degrees. F. for
three hours. Turn breast up
and continue roasting until
tender. The total cooking
time should be about 25 min
utes per pound. As the goose
cooks remove the fat that ac
cumulates in the pan. To
serve, remove the skewers
and string, place the goose
on a platter, and garnish
with the reserved prunes
and parsley. This makes
about eight servings.
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Knishes Repay
Puerto Rican
Youths
SOUTH OZONE, N. J.
(JTA)—A dozen Puerto Ri
can and Negro teenage
youth from East Harlem
last week repaid a group
of members of the Suburb
an YM-YWHA of South
Orange in an exchange of
unpaid assistance.
Last April, the Y mem
bers went to East Harlem
to scrub walls of the James
Weldon Johnson Commu
nity Center and re-arrange
the arts and crafts rooms
at the center.
The helping hand was re
turned by the East Harlem
youths who joined with a
dozen Jewish young people
from South Orange to put
recreation equipment in
the Y rooms in first class
condition.
The inter-religious and
inter-racial mutual aid pro
gram ended with a meal of
kosher frankfurters, knish
es and sweet noodle pud
ding, all cooked in Jewish
style by young hostesses.
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