There is no particular history associated with apple latkes that I can find, but they make a great accompaniment to any Hanukkah meal. Here are a few of my favourite recipes.<\/p>\n
DAIRY APPLE LATKES
\n<\/b>(makes 12)<\/i><\/p>\n
2 large tart, unpeeled, cored apples cut into 1\/2-inch chunks
\n<\/b>1\/4 cup brown sugar
\n<\/b>1\/4 tsp cinnamon
\n<\/b>1 1\/2 cups flour
\n<\/b>1 tbsp sugar
\n<\/b>1 tsp baking powder
\n<\/b>1 beaten egg
\n<\/b>1 cup milk*
\n<\/b>1 tbsp melted butter*<\/b><\/p>\n
1. In a bowl, combine apples, brown sugar and cinnamon.<\/p>\n
2. In another bowl, mix flour, sugar and baking powder.<\/p>\n
3. In another bowl, combine egg, milk or non-dairy creamer and butter or margarine. Stir into flour mixture to form a thin batter. Fold in apple mixture.<\/p>\n
4. Heat oil in a large frying pan. Pour 1\/4 cup batter for each latke. Flatten with a spatula and fry until lightly brown. Turn.<\/p>\n
5. Drain on paper towels.<\/p>\n
6. Serve with sour cream, or a bowl filled with one tablespoon of cinnamon combined with half a cup of sugar.<\/p>\n
(*To make this pareve, substitute with non-dairy creamer and pareve margarine.)<\/p>\n
APPLE PANCAKE
\n<\/b>(This recipe came from Aliza Begin, the wife of Menachem Begin, with the compliments of the Prime Minister\u2019s Bureau in the 1970s.)<\/i><\/p>\n
2 large tart apples
\n<\/b>2 eggs
\n<\/b>2 tbsp flour
\n<\/b>dash sugar
\n<\/b>dash cinnamon
\n<\/b>oil<\/b><\/p>\n
1. Peel and grate apples coarsely into a bowl.<\/p>\n
2. Beat eggs slightly in another bowl and add to apples with eggs, flour, sugar and cinnamon. Mix well.<\/p>\n
3. Heat oil in a frying pan. Pour batter into pan. Fry until golden on both sides.<\/p>\n
4. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top and serve warm.<\/p>\n
APPLE LATKES
\n<\/b>(This recipe came from <\/i>Light Jewish Holiday Desserts by Penny Wantuck Eisenberg and appeared in the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle many years ago. It makes 24 pancakes.)<\/i><\/p>\n
1 large apple, peeled, cored and cut into large hunks
\n<\/b>1 lemon, halved
\n<\/b>1 cup flour
\n<\/b>4 tbsp sugar
\n<\/b>4 large egg whites
\n<\/b>1\/2 cup skim milk
\n<\/b>1 tbsp canola oil<\/b><\/p>\n
1. Place apple pieces in a shallow bowl and squeeze lemon juice over.<\/p>\n
2. Finely chop apples in a food processor. Measure 2 cups, and place in a bowl.<\/p>\n
3. Place flour and three tablespoons sugar in processor and pulse to blend. Add two egg whites, milk and oil and process until smooth. Stir in apples.<\/p>\n
4. Beat the other two egg whites in a mixer bowl until foamy. Add one tablespoon sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold batter into egg whites.<\/p>\n
5. Spray a frying pan with cooking spray and heat. Make two-inch pancakes from batter by tablespoon. Cook 40 seconds, turn, press down and cook until pancakes are cooked through.<\/p>\n
6. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with sugar and serve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sybil Kaplan<\/b>, z\u201dl, was a Jerusalem-based journalist and author. She edited\/compiled nine kosher cookbooks and was a food writer for North American Jewish publications, including the <\/i>Jewish Independent. We communicated regularly, but mostly in the leadup to a holiday issue. Not having heard from her in advance of this Hanukkah paper, we reached out, getting the sad news that Sybil recently passed away. It was a pleasure working with her for these past 20+ years and we will miss her. She always provided more stories than we could use, so, in this issue, we run a few we had yet to publish, honouring her in our way. May her memory be for\u00a0<\/span><\/i>a blessing.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no particular history associated with apple latkes that I can find, but they make a great accompaniment to any Hanukkah meal. Here are a few of my favourite recipes. DAIRY APPLE LATKES (makes 12) 2 large tart, unpeeled, cored apples cut into 1\/2-inch chunks 1\/4 cup brown sugar 1\/4 tsp cinnamon 1 1\/2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[3584,22827],"class_list":["post-42921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-cooking","tag-hanukkah-latkes"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}