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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 11:16pm on 12/04/2006
Sponge cake enormously successful. Gefilte fish of a caliber with that served at [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim's wedding. Both colours of chreyn. Manischewitz Concord. Who could ask for more?

Some issues with the seder itself, or maybe with myself.

Came home to the marvelous gift of Peter Reinhart's The Baker's Apprentice from [livejournal.com profile] lunamystic. I have coveted this book a long while, because in addition to insanely detailed recipes (with weights, standard American home measurements, and percentage formulas) it builds upon his earlier works with formulas for breads with add-ins, breads with fancy pro glazes and patterns and sugar crusts, and THE POILANE MICHE.

Rassa frassa chometz.
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posted by [identity profile] mortifyd.livejournal.com at 04:30am on 13/04/2006
What were your issues with the seder?
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 01:12pm on 13/04/2006
...My issues with the seder were more with myself, as I said. There was a person at the table in the process of converting, and there was a BT, so the thing kind of clunked along, but that's not something I minded at all. It was just that I felt -- bad or sad or bitter or something -- because I know the songs and the Hebrew and the various odd customs and I can rattle it off so smoothly, and yet it means more to these people who aren't "real" Jews than it does to me.
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posted by [identity profile] mortifyd.livejournal.com at 08:42pm on 13/04/2006
Mine tend to clunk along too, I'm much better at the preperations and the food than I am actually *leading* the seders. I get excited about the meaning when all that is going on - but when it's seder-time I'm too busy worried about whether or not I skipped anything to actually *feel* anything.

I try to think about it during the week after the seders are over to get my sense of freedom and meaning out of it.

To them, it's a different experience than what you had, it's all new and shiny. Now that I've had some years of seder and preperation under my belt - the shiny is wearing off pretty quick. I don't think your feelings are uncommon really at all. You're just brave enough to talk about them. ♥
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posted by [identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 14/04/2006
It's a great book.

I need a baker's oven though. My crusts aren't what I want them to be.

TK
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