Kosher Cuisine with Marcy Goldman

New but Somehow Still Warmly Traditional Recipes for a New Year

 Rosh Hashanah is not quite late, but not quite (too) early this year. The timing of it gives you a chance to create a special menu, with breads and desserts galore (Rosh Hashanah being a prime ‘halla-day’ of challah and more). What’s nice about end-of-September New Year’s is that the apples are in and perfectly ripe for baking. In fact, all the fruits are in, giving you a palate of fruits that will ‘donate’ themselves to making any cook shine.

This season, as always, I am making some traditional favorites such as honey cake and apple strudel, the recipes for which are in my cookbook, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking as well as the Clabber Girl Archives. As always, given some lead time, I like to create some new things for old traditions – such as a decadent Marble Cake Bread Pudding (with hot fudge sauce? This one sure does trumpet in the holiday), an inventive Carrot Tzimmes Bread which is like a spice challah-cum-coffee cake and a simply replete Walnut Cranberry sweet challah. More recipes for the Jewish New Years are in the Clabber Girl archives should you still want some traditional favorites to add to these offerings. But these are some of the special, ‘new crop’ of holiday recipes from my table to yours.

May I wish you a sweet year of all good things,
Marcy Goldman 

Recipes

Walnut Cranberry Honey New Year’s Challah
This is a harvest challah that uses perks of red cranberries and buttery walnuts in a honey-laced challah dough. Festive and traditional.

Carrot Tzimmes Bread
Carrots are traditional at Rosh Hashanah and symbolize good luck for the new year. But these carrots get modernized in a sweet loaf that does double duty as an alternate to a sweet honey New Year’s Challah or served as a dessert cake on your holiday table.

Marble Cake Bread Pudding
Leftover marble cake makes a comforting but still-special dessert.
Sometimes you want a respite from the cinnamon, honey, and apple route.