{"id":758,"date":"2009-04-15T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-04-15T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T15:59:39","slug":"all-thats-missing-is-the-sun-to-bake-it-on-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/all-thats-missing-is-the-sun-to-bake-it-on-my-back","title":{"rendered":"All That&#8217;s Missing Is The Sun To Bake It On My Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-759\" title=\"Matzah\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/matzah.jpg\" alt=\"Matzah\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/matzah.jpg 600w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/matzah-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Matzah is only slightly more fun than dreidl. As a lot of folks know, I&#8217;ve been trying to invent a dreidl game that&#8217;s any good at all for several years now, to no avail. But I&#8217;m all up ons with the matzah thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s what you do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2c flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2ts salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2c olive oil. Use something good. I like Star, but we just went through a bottle of extraordinary yumminess that I can&#8217;t remember the name of.<\/li>\n<li>1\/3c water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F<\/li>\n<li>Start your timer. This has to be in the oven in under 18 minutes or it&#8217;s no good for Pesach. 18 is the gemmatria for &#8220;Chai&#8221;, which means &#8220;life&#8221;, so it&#8217;s &#8220;alive&#8221; in 18 minutes, and that means it&#8217;s leavened.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t sweat the time. This takes like 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Combine the flour and salt.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle in the oil while tumbling around the flour. See if you can get all the flour stuck into oily, crumbly chunks.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle in the water while turning over the flour\/oil mixture as little as possible. <strong>Don&#8217;t knead it.<\/strong> That&#8217;s the key. Just get it mixed so everything&#8217;s damp with oil or water.<\/li>\n<li>Oil up some baking sheets.<\/li>\n<li>Roll it out just as flat as you can get it, ideally 2mm thick or so. I rolled it out on my baking sheets so I knew it would fit, but it was a little awkward because of our rolling pin&#8217;s shape.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 25 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>While it&#8217;s baking, clean up the flour so you don&#8217;t have chametz floating around the kitchen. Also, it&#8217;s a mess.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The result is much like a pie crust. It&#8217;s awesome with meats and I want to try it as sort of an eggs-and-biscuits thing, too. When I did it, it was just as good the next day. There wasn&#8217;t any to test on day 3.<\/p>\n<p>I checked with our favorite rabbi to ask about it&#8217;s KFPness, and he said he couldn&#8217;t think of any reason it wouldn&#8217;t be OK, though seder matzah has to be just flour and water. Since I was baking this so we could eat dinner (all the grocery stores being totally sold out of matzah), rather than as a ritual object, he figures it&#8217;s fine, since people fry matzah all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matzah is only slightly more fun than dreidl. As a lot of folks know, I&#8217;ve been trying to invent a dreidl game that&#8217;s any good at all for several years now, to no avail. But I&#8217;m all up ons with the matzah thing. Here&#8217;s what you do. 2c flour 1\/2ts salt 1\/2c olive oil. 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