Jewish Apple Cake!^1 Making one in the evening is working out! The pressure to be efficient making two in a row limits the days when you can bake. Getting two for the price of one set-up and clean-up takes half a day: if you do it in the morning I lose time in between checking the fool phone, get distracted by the birds and go outside... But after dinner and the Maron walk, you stay focused so you can get to sleep early, the chickens are safely shut into their cages: there are fewer distractions....

With the Silkies supplying the eggs for frying and eating the only time I buy eggs is for making these cakes. I get a 10-pack of Miyakonojyo eggs: nice, big, and brown. Since it's 4 eggs per cake, it makes sense to make two cakes while the eggs are good. But tat leaves two eggs.. This cake was urged by the 6 eggs I had left after Monday's cake for the Night School's Free Dinner Tuesday. And one of the key people, the sweet old lady that does the poetry group didn't get a piece of the last one... I'm wondering about running around passing out cake when another sweet person that does a Smiling Breakfast Friday for 10 families FB posted something about her desserts not working out the way she planned. These people that cook for a lot of neighbors almost monopolize my respect. So I ran half the cake over to her. It should have been more but before I saw her post Maron and I met a nice neighbor Dad on the way back and he's going in for surgery soon. The Mom was great with Maron and their kids are sweet so I promised cake slices...

There is a great, healthy Okara Carrot cake recipe that I lost decades ago. I have to figure out how to make that again. I remember it feeling a lot like making these apple cakes: once you grind down the carrots, I used the same oil..
? https://baila.hpplus.jp/blogs/usui_miyuu/35868
? https://cookpad.com/jp/recipes/20967999
^1 https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/DigitalGarden/JewishAppleCakeRecipe1
#JewishAppleCake #OkaraCake

Last week's free meal at the YoruGakkou Free NIght school was impressive. I hadn't gone on Tuesday for almost a year? more than a year? It's so vibrant kids running around, some of the eating with the Moms, various people sharing meals or learning knitting or something. The Mahjong guy wasn't there but kids could walk around up stairs and check out the Mahjong board and pieces. It's too much excitement for me to eat there, my jaw is too involved in talking to everyone, with bad ears you can't look at your food enough to eat while talking. The people making all the food and passing it out and making sure everyone got a plate, and even seeing who wanted tea.. They looked really busy.. I've always loved the idea of Food Not Bombs, only got in to see one in Philadelphia once. I'm not sure what happened to the awesome carrot t-shirt from them, or the book about doing it.. But I've never gotten around to doing it. This Free NIght School makes reminds of that FoodNotBombs sort of excitement. I still can't settle down enough to jump in and cook with the people there, or start learning to cook for large groups of people. I end up being a moodmaker sort of presence but I'd like to support the efforts some other way too. So I made a cake... It's out of season for apples, and I was lucky the citrus fruits still laying around still smelled nice and edible but I think it turned out ok. It will be stealth encouragement sort of thing tomorow. GOtta figure out how many people cook and how to set aside a few pieces, I might make a horizontal slice to double the 27: that went well before at an organic gardener's pot-luck gathering.. It wasn't so bad making it after work, helped me deal with irritation from the humidity and a meeting. If this cake works out well, and if I can find some decent local citrus in the summer maybe I'll try to do this all year round for fun events...
The recipe was up on a hubzilla wiki for a while but the site seems to be down right now..
#JewishAppleCake

First Jewish Apple Cakes of the Year!!
Good reviews so far! They come out well thanks to the sugars, processed in Hyuga, somes from Hokkaido beets, some from AmamiOoshima canes. And the Hyotoko Mikan citrus juice... and uice from Yuzu or something citrus that was laying around the house... And the Natane Rapessed oil is probably helpful too.. And the Ceylon cinnamon along with the Malaysia cinnamon...
https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/DigitalGarden/JewishAppleCakeRecipe1
#JewishAppleCake

Another 2 #JewishAppleCake morning..

It was a three-cake day.. We have a few events coming up this weekend, so I took a day off to make three Jewish Apple Cakes. These cakes are popular, strict old ladies like and compliment them. The recipe is forgiving and the local citrus varieties and sugars from Okinawan cane and Hokkaido beets probably make the simple cake taste better than it should. The Ceylon cinnamon that coats the patiently sliced and layered apples helps a lot too. It takes half a day, about 4 or 5 hours to make 2 or three cakes. Once you get all the ingredients out and then have to clean up you might as well make more than one cake. One cake for the an event and the other cake to parcel out to neighbors and friends... Until I find the Okara (Tofu leavings) Carrot cake with walnuts recipe I'm a "One Trick Poney" with the desserts.

#JewishAppleCake #CitrusFruits #Pomelo #Pomelos

First Jewish Apple Cake baking binge of the year. It's finally cool enough outside and the stores have been carrying lost of apples. I wonder if Hannah Arendt had Jewish Apple Cake just after WWII when she wrote about how pogroms and genocides, collective punishments, don't seem to stop in a World [Dis]Order where people need a State to guarantee their human rights. She was writing about the area around #Ukraine no #Israel but...
#JewishAppleCake #HannahArendt #HumanRights #NationsAndPeace

A friend of my Grandparents had 14 kids and was known for her ability to cut things into equally small pieces for egalitarian distribution. I have to get better at channelling the nice old lady.
To give a chance at tasting the cake to a lot of people the slices have to be thin. Thin slices will fall apart if chunks of apple are thrown on top of half the batter before the last of the batter covers them. It takes more time to layer thin slices of apple but it's a heavy cake.
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Wild and Crazy Friday Night. I made two #JewishAppleCake s. We're helping a friend get their big appliance moved to another residence tomorrow morning, and things tend to crop up Saturday afternoons and nights... A nice local guy that runs a tea company and raises a huge, beautiful horse invited us to a gathering of locals on Sunday an I want to make a good impression so.. Cake Baking Time!! Friday Night might be the time to do it, free up Saturday mornings and vacation days for outside work...

> The use of oil instead of butter makes the cake pareve meaning Jewish families who observe Jewish dietary laws can serve it at either meat or dairy meals. ..
> A #JewishAppleCake is a dense cake made with apples. Suspected to have originated in #Poland, this delicious cake was well known in the tri-state area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware....
> Oil cakes also tend to bake up loftier with..
https://www.askchefdennis.com/jewish-apple-cake/
#pareve #JewishDietaryLaws #Pennsylvania #NewJersey #Delaware