SISTERS bake SHAVUOT
With Freidy Brackman, Oxford, UK and Rifky Lent, Dublin, Ireland
2 sisters, 4 recipes, lots of fun!
Monday, May 25, 8.00pm
Zoom meeting ID: 8204546815
Password: 079166
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Menu
Galic challah knots - Rifky
Blintzes – Freidy
Pesto – Freidy
Cheesecake 2 ways – Rifky
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INGREDIENTS LIST
BLINTZES
4 eggs
1 cup flour (self raising or plain with ½ tsp baking powder)
1 cup milk (any kind)
2 tblsp oil
¼ cup sugar or honey
Optional: 2 tblsp wheat germ or bran
Spray oil/butter/oil
2 cups soft cheese (cottage or cream cheese)
Icing sugar (1/4 – ½ cup, to taste)
1 tsp vanilla
1 lemon zest (optional)
Mixing bowl, whisk, frying pan, spatula
PESTO
100g pine nuts or cashews
60g fresh basil leaves
30g fresh parsley
2 tblsp olive oil
2 tblsp lemon juice
2 cloves garlic
salt/pepper to taste
Parmesan
Stick blender/food processor/pestle and mortar
CHEESECAKE
2.5lbs cream cheese at room temperature
1 ¾ cups castor sugar
3 tblsp all purpose flour
Zest 1 lemon
Zest 1 orange
¼ tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs
2 additional egg yolks
¼ cup whipping cream
9 inch springform pan lined generously with butter and patted with graham cracker crumbs or 3 ready made graham cracker pie crusts
Mixing bowl and spoon or beaters
NO BAKE CHEESECAKE
2 packs (36) petit beurre biscuits
100gr butter or margarine
100gr sugar
2 tblsp cocoa
2 tblsp water
1 tsp coffee
75gr margarine
Mixing bowl, spoon, small bowl, silver foil
GARLIC KNOTS
Half a batch of challah dough made with 5lbs of flour
12 garlic cloves finely chopped
1/3 cup finely chopped fresh parsley or ½ tblsp dried parsley
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil or melted butter
1 tsp kosher salt
1 egg
Baking trays, brush, bowl