Reply To: Home-baked Cookies in MM

Thanks but I cannot take any credit. It’s actually thanks to learning from other people and posters-who-are-also-people about circumstances and challenges that come up.

One such challenge is having limitations on which homes one and one’s family will eat at [how do I rephrase this sentence so it doesn’t end in a preposition?]

So come Purim, how is it that people give homebaked treats to a broader scope of people — which may include friends, family, teachers, neighbors, and children who show up at their door with MM too — and those people will all eat these treats?

Maybe there was some unspoken Purim code where all MM baked goods are permissible?

Maybe it’s a majority situation, like finding unlabeled meat in the parking lot of a shopping center where the majority of stores are kosher?

Then… that is assuming that people eat the cookies. So another question is whether this is indeed the case, and people do eat what they receive. Because the MM is meant to be a treat for the person to enjoy, for one thing. Are these MM really being eaten?

Or maybe it’s a social and fun thing and people enjoy seeing them even when they don’t actually eat them and maybe ask for the recipes later?

The other thing is the love that goes into the gift… That’s real.

And as people invest time into finding the perfect recipes, ingredients, and then spend hours pouring their hearts into such delicious treats, hopefully someone else is eating and enjoying them too.

Plus imho I think it would be easier to shrug off a neighbor tossing out a few Kedem tea biscuits in a baggie that you gave them than three of your homemade hamentaschens that your children would eat up in a heartbeat had they been at home.

Anyway thank you 🙂