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unleavened bread that gave up rising so the Israelites could give up slavery on schedule.
means A flat, crisp, unleavened bread made from flour and water, eaten especially during Passover when leavened foods are forbidden.
from From Hebrew matzah (מַצָּה), meaning unleavened bread, reaching English through Yiddish matse. The root is possibly tied to ideas of being drained or sucked dry — fittingly, dough with all its rising squeezed out of it. The word travels straight from the Passover story in the Hebrew Bible, where the Israelites fled Egypt in such haste their dough had no time to rise.
- 18 minutes
- Dough must bake before yeast can wake up.
- shmura
- Wheat watched from harvest to oven against moisture.
- perforated
- Those holes stop it from puffing into bread.
- matzo crack
- Toffee-covered version is dangerously addictive at Passover.
- bricklike
- Eaten dry, it's basically edible drywall with history.
streit's matzo — family-owned matzo factory in new york since 1925, produces millions of sheets annually
yemenite matzo — hand-rolled unleavened bread tradition from yemen, thinner and softer than ashkenazi style