Matzo flour

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Matze flour or Mazzemehl is a flour made from crushed matzo , the unleavened bread, the religious and tradition-conscious Jews during the week-long Passover festival are eaten. During the Passover festival, matzo flour replaces cereal flour and characterizes the Ashkenazi Passover cuisine with its numerous special recipes. It is also used all year round in the preparation of gefilte fish , matzo dumplings , cakes , pancakes and other dishes and is used as breadcrumbs .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gil Marks: Passover (Pesach) . In: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food . John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-94354-0 , pp. 442 ( Google Books [accessed February 4, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Ze'ev Yeivin, Molly Lyons Bar-David, Yom Tov Lewinski: Food / Passover . In: Michael Berenbaum, Fred Skolnik (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Macmillan Reference USA, Detroit 2007, pp. 119 ( online: Gale Virtual Reference Library ).
  3. ↑ Michal Friedlander and Cilly Kugelmann on behalf of the Jewish Museum Berlin (eds.): Kosher & Co. About food and religion . Jewish Museum, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-539-9 , pp. 239, 247 .
  4. ↑ Gil Marks: Matza . In: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food . John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-94354-0 , pp. 397 ( Google Books [accessed January 4, 2013]).