What would happen if our world went back a few decades and for just one week we ate clean, non-industrial homemade food - made, peeled, chopped and cooked in each individual home?
It turns out that once a year we have the opportunity to experience seven days in which the custom of our ancestors is in our hands.
In many communities, people become stricter on Passover for various reasons. Many do not buy industrial products, even if they are strictly kosher for Passover. There are also those who do not even eat at friends' houses on Passover.
This idea, that you can go back in time, is an idea that gives tradition a special importance. Without referring to nostalgia, it is an idea that also has health benefits. This matter of being happy and satisfied with what you have, has been studied and researched by the great psychoanalysts in recent years.
This is actually one of the most prominent characteristics of previous generations. The custom of adhering to ancestral customs - to tradition - is one of the foundations of the theory of the famous psychologist, Alfred Adler, called belonging or "sociality.".
But here, in this day and age, this issue often arouses opposition. Especially in light of the booming business in the period before Passover. The grocery stores are so packed with all the goodies of the land that even bread rolls (kosher for Passover!) are on the shelves.
Without offending the food industry and the dairy refrigerators crammed to the brim with the most fancy kosher products, I will share the following things I found on one of the forums.
One of the participants wrote: "I would be grateful if you could help me diversify my meals, I would especially like ideas for breakfast." Wait. There's more. The lady made a list of basic products and wrote: "We only use these products on Passover...""
Here is her list: matzah; wine; grape juice; chicken; meat; fish; eggs; oil; cooked sugar; coarse salt; onions; potatoes; sweet potatoes; beets; horseradish; lettuce; carrots; citrus fruits; apples; pears; bananas; almonds and walnuts.
That's it! No more...
The same anonymous person added an important request: "I would very much like to not get carried away with a discussion about the merits of the Haidarim in Chabad. If anyone has questions on the subject, please open a new thread. Please dedicate the current thread to practical ideas only.".
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Well, what shall I say, with the permission of the important lady, with the permission of Father's house, in honor of the hostel, and to avoid the discussion that repeats itself every Passover ("Explain to me why soda is forbidden and wine is permitted"), or "What's wrong with eggplant if I peel it?" - so it goes like this:
There are no reasons and no explanations. These are customs of years and years. It is impossible to describe the longing of the children for the Passover flavors that repeat themselves every year. And not to mention the creative belabostes who manage to caramelize onions and carrots in a pan to season the meat. And boil beets with sugar water for the purple-purple drink called 'borscht'.
And believe me, we stay alive. Even if not satisfied, then at least satisfied.
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Here is my mother's recipe for walnut cake in a crock pot. Try it and enjoy.
Ingredients:
6 eggs
1 cup sugar (or sugar water)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons oil
1 cup ground nuts
How to prepare:
Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with sugar. Mix the yolks with lemon and oil in a bowl. Mix the yolks with the egg whites. Add the nuts gently and with folding movements.
Pour into a baking pan in a magic pot on the stove: Grease the magic pot and bake. Ten minutes on high heat and 50 minutes on low heat. And when removed from the stove - place on a wet rag.
Have a happy Passover. I'm sure it will be kosher for all the righteous women of Israel, but each of us is responsible for the joy.
Let's start working on it!
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