 | American Haroset With Joan
6 large apples, cored, quartered
(Granny Smith, Fuji, or Jonathan)
1/2 cup coarsely-chopped pecans
1/4 cup sweet red Kosher wine,
| such as Manischewitz
2 Tbs sugar, or to taste
1 tsp ground cinnamon, or to taste
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Directions
1 Combine apples, pecans, wine, sugar, and cinnamon in
the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment. Pulse
until coarsely chopped. Taste and adjust for seasoning.
2 This recipe yields 5 cups.
3 Comments: At the Passover seder, the springtime feast
that ritualistically reenacts the Jewish exodus from Egyptian
slavery, food takes a paramount role in telling an age-old story:
Bitter herbs represent the harshness of slavery. Salt water indicates
tears, eggs stand for fertility, and shank bones for the miracle of
deliverance. There is even a sticky fruit-and-nut mixture called
haroset to symbolize the bricks and mortar with which the slaves
worked.
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