Especially delicious.
Ashisho (photo: Tova Dickstein)
Between pancakes and fritters, Ashishas were actually an energy snack in biblical times.
Oil comes from the root ASH, and their function was to comfort the one who eats them.
In the Song of Songs, the girl in love asks her friends: "Samk
֙וּני֙
בָּֽאשִישיש֔וֹת רפְּ֖וּנִי בַּתּפִָ֑ים קִּי-קוּּת אַּב֖ה אָֽנִי" (Song of Songs 2:5): King David also distributed women to the exhausted residents of Jerusalem who danced all day when the Ark of God was brought into the city.
(Samuel 2 and 19).
In honor of the last candle of Hanukkah, researcher Dr. Tova Dikstein shares with us this ancient and special recipe.
According to Dikstein, who specializes in the study of food during the time of the Bible, the full recipe is found in the Jerusalem Talmud, where it is said that Rabbi Yissa, who lived in the Galilee, came to visit Rabbi Yossi, who lived in Ashtamoe in Judah.
And Rabbi Yossi honored him with a dish that was not known in the Galilee: "...roasted lentils, ground, bordered with honey and fried and told him these are the hashish that the sages said"
"The ashishas were made from lentil flour mixed with honey and fried in olive oil," Dikstein says.
"It was only after burning a few pans that I realized that the word 'bounded' in the past meant adding water to a shapeless powder like flour or mortar, kneading and creating a border for it. I added water to the mixture and the result was a particularly delicious lentil pancake."
If you would like to taste and hear about additional biblical recipes, you can do so
on Yom Assif
, which will be held at Assif, the Center for Food Culture in Israel, on December 29.
The entire day will be dedicated to examining the past, present and future of local food, and will be accompanied by lectures and tastings on the subject.
You can find details and registration here.
Ashisha - biblical pancakes (photo: Tova Dickstein)
Ingredients
1 lentil buckwheat flour
½ cup or milk
2 tablespoons of flour
½ teaspoon of salt
6 spoons of honey or grape honey
Fine olive oil, for frying
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Preparation
How do you prepare ashisha?
1 Toast the lentil flour a little on a dry pan.
2. Mix the flour we sifted a little together with the rest of the ingredients (except the oil) into a batter that is similar to pancake batter, slightly liquid.
If it is thick, add more water.
3 Heat a little oil in a pan and pour pancakes and flats with a spoon.
Fry on low heat.
As soon as bubbles appear - turn to the other side.
*
Please note: the
pancakes burn quickly due to the high honey content, you have to make sure they don't burn.
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