{"id":92,"date":"2016-04-03T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-04-14T03:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:33:51","slug":"the-history-of-matzah-ball-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/food\/the-history-of-matzah-ball-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Matzah Ball Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iBtKtOSECE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Documentary by Luan T. To, Max Tawil, and Miriam Aniel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This brief\u00a0documentary traces the history of Matzah Ball Soup back to the discovery of Matzah in the biblical days, when Moses led\u00a0the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. Once\u00a0Matzah is mixed with eggs and seasoning, you may roll the mixture in balls, and put them in Chicken soup to cook this staple in traditional Jewish cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Matzah ball soup emerged in Jewish cuisine along with the industrial revolution. In 1838, Isaac Singer invented a matzah press, changing the time honored tradition of\u00a0making matzah by hand.<\/p>\n<p>By 1888, Manischewitz enhanced Singer&#8217;s machine by establishing\u00a0automated matzah production. This means of making matzah produced those perfect, perforated squares of Matzah common today. By 1920, Manischewitz emerged as the world&#8217;s largest matzah producer, and\u00a0Manischewitz remains the most popular matzah brand.<\/p>\n<p>As mass production of matzah meal made the ingredient more accessible, it permeated Jewish recipes, such as &#8220;Kneidlach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A dumpling of Germanic origins,\u00a0Jewish cooking absobred Kneidlach as a flour dumpling usually stuffed with meat. In pursuit\u00a0to enjoy this recipe during Passover, Jews began using matzah meal to replace flour. In turn, matzah balls were born.<\/p>\n<p>The dish is still very popular today! If you&#8217;re interested in trying your hand at cooking, check out this recipe from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/recipes\/2015\/04\/the-best-matzo-balls-recipe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Serious Eats<\/a>, or this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browneyedbaker.com\/matzo-ball-soup-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brown Eyed Baker<\/a>. If you like spice, try\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/patijinich.com\/2011\/09\/post_1\/\" target=\"_blank\">this recipe<\/a> with Jalape\u00f1o peppers, and for a challenge, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/whatjewwannaeat.com\/deep-fried-matzo-balls-with-wasabi-cream-sauce\/\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> deep friend matzah balls with wasabi cream sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary by Luan T. To, Max Tawil, and Miriam Aniel &nbsp; This brief\u00a0documentary traces the history of Matzah Ball Soup back to the discovery of Matzah in the biblical days, when Moses led\u00a0the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. Once\u00a0Matzah is mixed with eggs and seasoning, you may roll the mixture in balls, and put them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,32,29,31],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-kosher","tag-matzoh","tag-passover"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-1u","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2012-12-01-crockpot-matzo-p3-580w.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}