If it's Minhag to have cheese on Chanukah why don't we have cheesecake then?
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Why Don't We Have Cheesecake on Chanukah?
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Posted 12 months ago #
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It's Very Shver™
Posted 12 months ago # -
It does not fry in oil well :-)
Posted 11 months ago # -
The cheese of Chanuka is very salty to commemorate how Yehudis killed Holofernes. He became thirsty, she gave him wine and when he was drunk, she cut his head off.
Posted 11 months ago # -
why don't we have cheesecake then?
Who is stopping you? Have all the cheesecake you want.
The Wolf
Posted 11 months ago # -
Good question. We should ALWAYS have cheesecake.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I dont think that we can afford those extra calories TWICE in one year!
Posted 11 months ago # -
No oomis! Not when youre having fleishigs!
Posted 11 months ago # -
Mosh, I made a marble pareve "cheesecake" (my own recipe, btw) that NO ONE could believe was not milchig. It was THAT good! I ended up not making real cheesecake, because my oven died and I didn't want to make the pareve toaster oven milchig. I promise you, had I not told everyone it was Tofutti, they would not have known. The following recipe was used to make two pies, one plain and one marble.
3 containers tofutti cream "cheese"
1/2 cup Tufutti pareve sour cream
1 Tbs. vanilla extract
1 tsp. lemon juice
4 eggs
1 cup sugar (I may have used an additional 1/4-1/2 cups)2 graham cracker piecrusts
about 6 oz. chocolate chips melted and slightly cooled, but still stirrable. This will be added to the marble cheesecake batter. A can of any flavor fruit pie filling is used to top the second pie.
Mix everything but chocolate or pie filling together. Pour equal portions into each pie crust then pour the chocolate into one batter and swirl to marbleize. Bake at preheated 350 degrees until top is pale golden, but center is still jiggly. Cool in oven then refrigerate for several hours or overnight(I freeze it until the start of the meal, then take it out and leave it out until dessert time). This is so good.
Bake the plain pie until the top is pale golden and jiggly in the center. Let cool thoroughly, then top with fruit pie filling and refrigerate or freeze until needed.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Because the gematriyah of Ugas G'vina is 549, which has nothing to do with Chanuka, besides when it does, which it generally never is, which may or may not be subject to debate.
Posted 11 months ago # -
oomis1105,
Thanks for that recipe. I printed it already and can't wait to make it. :)
Posted 11 months ago # -
oomis1105,
Thanks for that recipe. I printed it already and can't wait to make it. :)
Posted 11 months ago # -
MDG
You wrote that twice.
Posted 11 months ago # -
MDG
You wrote that twice.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Oomis1105:- I promise you, had I not told everyone it was Tofutti, they would not have known.
Think before you promise; I am allergic to soya & tofutti, and my stomach would have ratted you within minutes of my having consumed your pareve cheesecake.
Besides, pareve cheesecake defeats the entire reason for having Dairy on Shovu'os.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I have never heard of any minhag to NOT have cheesecake on Channukah. Can you please state the source of this minhag?
The Wolf
Posted 11 months ago # -
I told you! there isn't a possibly non existent minhag not to eat cheesecake on Chanuka because the gematriyah of Ugas G'vina is 549, which has nothing to do with Chanuka, besides when it does, which it generally never is, which may or may not be subject to debate.
Posted 11 months ago #
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