Sufganiyah

Sufganiyot

The Sufganiyah ( Hebrew סופגנייה or סופגניה; plural, Sufganiyot :סופגניות) is a round pastry with a jam filling that is eaten around the world on Jewish Hanukkah . The pastries are fried, filled with jam or vanilla cream and sprinkled with powdered sugar. On Hanukkah, people of the Jewish faith eat fried food in memory of the temple oil miracle.

Similar pastries

• Berlin pancakes

literature

• Gil Marks: History of the Jelly Donut - Sufganiyah . In: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food . Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-39130-3 ( leitesculinaria.com ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claudia Roden: The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1996.