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MIRIAM'S RECIPES:

Miriam and Eoin's Haroseth Pies

I must do the filling, because when I touch anything with yeast it does die. Take dried honey dates, fresh plums cut into pieces off the stone, raisins both sultanas and brown and boil them up in a red wine with plenty of raw sugar or honey. Once the fruit falls apart and is soft, strain off the wine syrup and reserve. Mash the fruit into pulp, it will look brown and unappealing unless you dye it with pomegranate juice. Let cool.

Eoin then made the dough for the pies, taking two parts fine white flour and one part whole wheat flour, a pinch of salt. Get some yeast from a brewer or baker, and add to a measure of warmed goat's milk to which a small spoon of sugar has been added, cow's milk may be substituted. To this add a large spoon of sweet oil. Add the flour to the yeast mixture, stirring it until it makes a thick dough. Cover with clean cloth and let rise. When it has doubled in size, beat it down and pull off a piece the size of a hen's egg, smallish in size. Flatten on a floured board of a smoothed hardwood. Spoon in a dollop of the haroseth, fold the dough around the filling, and shape into a little crescent. Bake it until it is a nice color and serve hot or cold as desired.

Eoin's Lamb Pies

Take some lamb neck bones which have been stewed with onions and garlic in red wine, and remove the flesh from the bones. Throw the bones to your dogs, mince the meat and put it in a large bowl. For every four parts of meat, add a part of raisins (of whatever color you have) and a part of manchego cheese. Add salt and crushed black pepper to give it a pleasant taste. Stir it all together and let cool.

Use the dough recipe from the haroseth pies, but without the sugar and whole wheat flour. Once it has risen and been beaten down separate into fist-sized lumps and flatten. Cover all but a finger's breath from the edge with the lamb and cheese mixture. Top with another round of dough and crimp the edge. Bake it until it is a nice color and serve hot or cold as you desire.

Please avoid setting this pie before the Rabbi or any devout Jew, however you may set it before any Muslim or Christian of your acquaintance. Whatever you do, my dear daughter, do not tell your mother that I added on the meat and cheese pie recipe, because she would be sorely upset and for no reason.

Miriam bas Levi has granted permission for all of her articles to appear on the Dreiburgen web site, 11 Oct 2006.

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