Kosher Cuisine with Marcy Goldman

Harvest Holiday Abounds in Fruity Recipes

Nothing beats the holiday of Succot for inspiration in the Kosher Kitchen. You have a wide range of ingredients, can use dairy based recipes, and go to town, on featuring modest, out-of-hand desserts (such as squares and cookies) or bigger cakes, to serve, if guests drop by after a Succot hop. Here is a new selection of some sweets to herald the harvest. They are all old-fashioned goodness but with a slightly contemporarized approach. After all, holidays stay the same and go forward all at once which is what makes for tradition that stays lively and on-going.

Recipes

Pear, Cranberry, & Apple Rolly Polly Biscotti
Is this strudel or a new wave biscotti? This features a biscotti/cookie dough, that is rippled through with apple pie filling (the homemade filling is included; but you can also use a can of apple pie filling to speed things up). It is baked once and cut into small sticks that are tightly coiled, showing off their filling. They are crunchy as cookies, interesting as biscotti, and unique as strudel. They keep well and are one of those extremely satisfying cookie bites - as good for the kids as it is for hosting or giving as gifts. If you want this pareve, use half unsalted shortening and half butter flavoured shortening and use orange juice to replace whipping cream.

Succot Harvest Challah
A harvest rich challah, replete with fruits and a sweet, vanilla-tinged challah dough.

Fresh Apple Quick Bread
Apples and pecans in a buttery little loaf that bakes up golden. A dusting of sugar before baking and some slivers of green or red apple inset in the batter makes this a wonderful slicing cake. Just pass around slices on a platter, while relaxing in your backyard succot or at a friend's.