“I’m making an apple cake this year,” my mom declares practically every year before Rosh Hashanah, “Nobody likes honey cake anyway.” Honey, often referenced in ancient texts, including the ubiquitous reference to Israel as the land of milk and honey, is used in a variety of Rosh Hashanah recipes to symbolize a sweet new year. We dip our apples in honey, our challah in honey, and our shelves seem to be fully...
- By Ian Coffin
- 19 Sep 2012
- 03:02AM
My wife is Jewish I am a somewhat lapsefu Catholic. I enjoy both my mother in laws honey cake and fruitcake. I guess cake like beauty is in the eyed of the beholder
thank you
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