This weekend marks the beginning of a period where most of your Jewish colleagues will be missing more than a few days of work, and I’m here to tell you that they’re not lying – there really are that many Jewish holidays in the fall. They’re what we call the High Holidays, starting with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ten days later, Yom Kippur (AKA the Day of Atonement). Yom Kippur is the holiest of the holidays, and includes a day of fasting, which by my reckoning is the only Jewish holiday that doesn’t revolve around a dinner table heaving with food.
That’s where Rosh Hashanah comes in handy. Since this holiday marks the Jewish calendar’s new year, the meal is full of symbolic (and delicious) foods, such as apples dipped in honey, and honey cake, for a sweet new year, and round loaves of challah that symbolize the continuation of life.
Enjoying fruit and vegetable-based dishes is a way of giving thanks for a successful harvest season. Put them all together in one big, hearty dish and you’ve got yourself a classic Jewish brisket recipe, served with roasted carrots, noodle kugel, salad, and chicken soup, it’s the epitome of home cooking from the heart, for a sweet new year.
Here’s my recipe based on a classic one that’s been making the rounds since the 1950s, when diverse convenience foods magically combined to make brisket nirvana. Normally I wouldn’t be keen to use packaged soup mix or Coca-cola in a recipe, but in this case, a classic is always timely.
Amy’s beef brisket (serves 8-10)
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