Better than store bought! I start with matzo...

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I brought up my matzo recipe in my pizza stone thread and Chanteuse asked for the recipe. Matzo is one of those things that almost everyone buys packaged rather than making from scratch.

So this is the “Better Than Store Bought” thread… your recipe for something that most people buy already prepared.

Stoid’s Slammin’ Matzo:

4 cups all-purpose flour
Freshly cracked pepper - what you like. I do about 10 grinds.
2 teaspoons kosher salt DISSOLVED into
1.5 cups warm water

Make a nice dough by hand, it will be messy and rough, dump onto a well=-floured board. Knead it a little to smooth it out.

Using a dough scraper, divide it into 12 pieces (in half, in half, in thirds)

don’t worry that the pieces dry out, matzo is dry.

Take a piece and roll and roll and roll until it’s nice and thin and even.

You can poke it with a fork, I don’t because I like the bubble.

The oven is heated to MAX your oven can do. 500 degrees is normal.

I use a pizza stone, but if you don’t have one, you can use a cookie sheet upside down.

drop your piece of thinly rolled dough onto your stone/sheet, close the oven and wait a minute. Check it, and if it looks like it’s kinda cooked, flip it over. Takes about one-2 minutes per side. The best part is the browned bits, but be careful because it goes from nicely brown to burn pretty fast.

It is DELICIOUS, fantastic.

The downside is simply that it’s hot work: you are working iwth a blistering oven and you are opening it and reaching in every couple of minutes. I suggest making matzo on a very cold day when you think you just can’t warm up.

I like it with nothing but butter… it’s irresistible, and makes store bought matzo intolerable.

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I’d love to toss out a thousand recipes right now. I’ve been learning to cook and I have to say, most of the stuff I’ve figured out is better than store bought. Most especially my bread.

Got a recipe for matzo balls for soup along with this?

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OOOOOOPS…I forgot the most important part: SESAME SEEDS!!! 1/4 cup fresh raw or lightly toasted in a dry pan.

That makes ALL the difference…

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And no, I don’t do the soup, sorry. But I bet these make awesome matzo meal to do it with!

My next project is corning my own beef.

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Does letting it develop the bubbles make it leavened & treif for Passover?

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From my late MIL.
Matzo
2 eggs
2 Tblsp chicken broth
2 Tblsp schmaltz

Mix the wet ingredients. Add crumbled matzo 'til it will form balls.

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I’m no expert, being a nice Irish-Cherokee gal myself, but the fact that it bubbles doesn’t mean it is leavened. Kneading develops the gluten a little and heat and steam will cause a bit of bubbling, that doesn’t make it leavened.

The salt, pepper and sesame seeds might make it treif… a rabbi would know.

I just did a little googling out of curiosity and I would say that as long as a Jew turns on the oven, it’s kosher. But that’s just my IrishIndian per-google answer.