December 13, 2009

Hanukkupcakes

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Senator Orrin Hatch's Hanukkah Song

The True Story of Orrin Hatch's Hanukkah Song

Jeffrey Goldberg

09 Dec 2009 04:35 pm

Here's the complete story about how Orrin Hatch and I collaborated on this Hanukkah song:

Ten years ago, I visited Hatch, the senior senator from Utah and a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Capitol Hill. I was writing for The New York Times Magazine and Hatch was thinking of running for president. We talked about politics for a few minutes, and then he said, "Have you heard my love songs?"

No senator had asked me that question before. It turned out that Hatch was a prolific songwriter, not only of love songs, but of Christian spirituals as well. We spent an hour in his office listening to some of his music, a regular Mormon platter party. After five or six Christmas songs, I asked, him, "What about Hanukkah songs? You have any of those?"

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Martha Stewart's take on Sufganiyot - Israeli Hanukkah doughnuts

These deep-fried Israeli delicacies symbolize the miracle of the burning oil lamps in the ancient Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Plump up each fried dough ball with your favorite fruit jam. For a wintry effect, sprinkle the tops with granulated sugar

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Sufganiyot: Israeli Jelly Doughnuts for Hanukkah

Hanukkah Sufganiyot

The word sufganiyot, a modern Hebrew word, comes from the greek sufgan, meaning "puffed and fried." Every bakery in Jerusalem, no matter the ethnic origin of the baker, makes these jelly doughnuts for Hanukkah. In the past the sufganiyot consisted of two rounds of dough sandwiching some jam, and the jam always ran out during the frying. Today, with new injectors on the market, balls of dough can be deep-fried first and then injected with jam before being rolled in sugar. This is a much easier, quicker way of doing them. And no jam escapes...