Newton in the Kitchen

Rosh Hashanah Recipes: Apple Cake and Noodle Kugel

Here are recipes for a savory noodle kugel and a sweet apple cake with a honey glaze to help make your celebration of the Jewish New Year more delicious!

  Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 16 and goes until sundown on Tuesday, Sept. 18. This is the year 5773 on the Jewish calendar, and every year Jewish families gather together to celebrate the occasion with traditional foods. I am again sharing my grandmother’s very popular, savory noodle kugel recipe as well as a recipe for apple cake. Eating apples and honey are a traditional way of bringing in a sweet New Year, so the honey glaze on the apple cake makes it perfect for Rosh Hashanah. B’tayavon!   (serves 8 as a side dish) Mama Betty is my paternal grandmother and was the very personification of the notion that food = love. This is one of my absolute favorite foods, and it tastes as good on day two as…

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Wendy Schapiro

1:52 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012

I remember when you posted about that last year, Kristine, my fellow savory kugel lover! :) It's one of my favorite comfort foods, too- right up there with hashed browns :)   more ›