Bubbie’s Recipes
I know I know, your Bubbie’s banana bread is so much better than mine…We all love our grandmother’s cooking and have fabulous recipes to prove it. This section is for our favorite family recipes and Bubbie’s cooking secrets!

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Browse our recipes:
Best Dairy Noodle Kugel Ever
Latke Recipe A
Latke Recipe B
Latke Recipe C
Nanny's Recipe of the Month
Grandma Edith's Sugar Cookies
Best Dairy Noodle Kugel Ever! — Jessica Minkoff
This is my “no-fail” recipe. It freezes beautifully and I’ve made it with less butter, light sour cream and cottage cheese, skim milk; I’ve even forgotten the eggs and it still tastes great. You can add golden raisins or dried apricots if you choose, use about a 1/2 cup. The most important part is the topping, that is what makes adults and kids love it.
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 8 ounces wide egg noodles
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 4 ounces butter
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 6 eggs
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 1 cup sour cream
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 1 cup cottage cheese
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 ½ cup sugar
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 ½ cup milk
Topping:
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 1 cup corn flake crumbs
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 1 cup brown sugar
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 ¼ cup melted butter

Cook noodles in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and add butter. Set aside. Beat together eggs, sour cream, cottage cheese, sugar and milk. Add mixture to noodles. Pour into a buttered 8x12 inch baking dish. Mix together topping ingredients. Sprinkle over kugel. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Serves 10-12.

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As Jews we have many different opinions, and we have many cooking styles. Check out the responses to the Latke Lovers Recipe Contest.

Latke Recipe A
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 6 potatoes
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 2 eggs
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 ½ cup sifted flour
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 1 teaspoon salt
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 1 grated onion
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 ½ teaspoon baking powder
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 Fresh Garlic
*Some variations include grated sweet potato or carrots and if you are feeling really creative, sushi with the latke batter and fry it – “sushi latke”

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Latke Recipe B
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 3-4 large potatoes
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 1 small onion
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 1 zucchini
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 2 teaspoons salt
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 2 eggs
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 4 tablespoons of bread crumbs or matzo meal

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Latke Recipe C
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 2 potatoes
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 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice
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 1 egg
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 5 tablespoons of olive oil
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 1 teaspoon salt
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 Freshly ground pepper
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 2 cups of chopped olive spread (black/green olives, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 2 tablespoon of parsley)

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Nanny’s Recipe of the Month — Leah Greenblat
My brother loved my great grandmother’s tsimmes. Of course, her generation didn’t right down recipes; they just added a bisel (little) of this and a shtikel (bit) of that. After she died, he lamented that no one made tsimmes like hers.

Feeling like I wanted to do something nice for my big brother, I searched Jewish cookbooks trying to find something that sounded like it would taste like Nanny’s tsimmes. According to my brother, the recipe I found tasted the most like Nanny’s. But like Nanny’s, the recipe has evolved over time to become my own.
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 8 medium sized carrots, sliced into _ inch rounds (Nanny would have peeled them, I don’t.)
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 4 apples (Gala or Fuji), quartered and then cut into small _ inch cubes (Again, Nanny would have peeled them, but not me.)
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 Add the apples to the carrots and mix them together. Cook for 10 minutes on medium heat and then drain them and set them aside.
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 Mix together a _ cup of brown sugar, packed; 2 Tablespoons of melted butter and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
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 Spray an 8x8 inch pan with Pam
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 Spread the carrots and apples evenly in the pan.
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 Add a handful or so of dried cherries or cranberries (That’s my addition, not Nanny’s.)
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 Evenly distribute the brown sugar mixture on top of the apples, carrots and dried fruit.
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 Bake at 325 covered with foil for 30 minutes, then bake uncovered for another 10-15 minutes.

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Grandma Edith’s Sugar Cookies — Naomi Jacobson
My dad’s mom was a terrific baker. She made all the sweets for both me and my brother’s Oneg Shabbat at our B’nei Mitzvot. She had a few signature cookies and this is definitely one of them. It goes particularly well with a glass of milk or a cup of tea.
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 ½ cup oil
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 ½ cup sugar
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 2 eggs
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 1 tsp. vanilla extract
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 2 cups flour (unsifted)
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 ¼ tsp. salt
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 1 tsp. baking powder
Topping:
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 ½ cup sugar and 1 Tablespoon cinnamon mixed together
Directions:
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 Beat oil and sugar: Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla.
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 Sift dry ingredients and gradually add to first mixture.
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 Oil hands and roll 1 tsp of dough to make a strip.
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 Roll in cinnamon and sugar.
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 Place on greased cookie sheet in form of a horseshoe
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 Bake at 350 degrees about 20 minutes.
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 Makes about 20 cookies.

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