Name: Overnight Caramelized-Apple Matzoh Brie
Yield: Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon granulated light brown or white sugar; sour cream or yogurt cream; 4 whole plain matzohs; ½ cup evaporated milk, half-and-half, or cream; Unsalted butter for greasing the pan, plus 2 tablespoons, melted and cooled; ¼ teaspoon salt; 4 medium-large flavorful apples (about 2 pounds; an assortment of tart and sweet, such as Winesap, Northern Spy, or Mutsu combined with Fuji, Gala, or Braeburn, works particularly well; avoid Rome apples, which will turn to mush); ⅓ cup pure maple syrup; ⅓ cup evaporated milk, half-and-half, or cream; 3 tablespoons unsalted butter; 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice; ⅛ teaspoon salt; 4 large eggs; ¾ teaspoon kosher-for-Passover vanilla extract; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Yield:
4
Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Jewish Holiday Cooking

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2008

About

An evil apple may have done the trick for Snow White’s wicked stepmother, but no apple caused Adam’s downfall. Though mentioned several times in ancient Hebrew literature, the apple plays no part in Genesis. Adam and Eve sin simply by eating “fruit”—the generic kind—from the Tree of Knowledge.

Was the actual culprit the sensuous, many-seeded pomegranate? Perhaps the luscious golden apricot or the flesh-soft fig? Scholars continue to debate. While the apple was first specified as the