Make Your Own Matzah at Home!
It might be difficult to find matzah this year, but there is good news—it’s easy to make matzah at home. And by definition the whole process is supposed to take less than 18 minutes. The whole idea of matzah is that the Hebrews made it quickly as they were escaping Egypt. These videos show you how to do it, including making gluten-free matzah and soft matzah!
Make Crunchy Matzah
(including Gluten-Free)
with Shira Kline and Ellen Allard
Shira Kline, aka ShirLaLa, is the Founding Ritual Leader of Lab/Shul, where she is Worship and Family Education Director. Ellen Allard is the Gluten Free Diva. Shira and Ellen also lead Lab/Shul’s Shabbat ShaMorning.
Click the icon above to see the how-to video on Lab/Shul’s Facebook page
The Facebook post and video list the following preparation steps:
1. Preheat Oven to 475 (or as hot as it goes)
2. Ingredients = 1 part water, 3 parts flour + more for sprinkling
3. Equipment = rolling pin, hole puncher (anything from a plastic fork to a dough docker), 1 large mixing bowl, 2 measuring cups (one for flour, one for water), something to get the matzah in and out of the hot oven (e.g., tongs and a “pizza peel,” a large flat wooden or metal plate with handle), a timer
Make Crunchy Matzah
with Ruth Abusch-Magder
Director of Education and Rabbi-in-Residence at Be’chol Lashon, and organization that strengthens Jewish identity by raising awareness about the ethnic, racial and cultural diversity of global Jewish identity and experience. Her Ph.D. dissertation was about Jewish cookbooks and domestic life.
Click the icon above to see the how-to video on Kveller’s Facebook page
The Facebook post and video list the following preparation steps:
1. Make sure your oven is cranked up as high as possible
2. Ingredients = 1 cup of flour white or whole wheat. 1/2 cup of water (that’s it!)
3. Equipment = rolling pin, large bowl, fork (or docker), baking sheet (perforated, if you have), timer, baking gloves
Make SOFT Matzah
with Barry Dolinger
Co-founder of Mitzvah Matzos
Mitzvah Matzos is bringing back the original form of matzah, which was soft. (It only became crunchy in the age of mass production so that it could be machine-made and shelf-stable.) Mitzvah Matzos is liberating matzah from capitalism, and all its proceeds are donated to fight human trafficking. And Barry Dolinger is an Orthodox rabbi, so don’t worry that soft matzah can’t be kosher.
Click the icon above to see the how-to video Barry Dolinger made for jewishLIVE
The ingredients are simple:
600 g of flour
380-390 ml of water
That’s it!