Kreplach

The three points of these stuffed pasta dumplings symbolize the three patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In Western Europe they were originally only filled with meat and eaten in soup, while in Slavic Lands they were filled with cheese and eaten as a separate course as early as the 12th century. It was later, after a great meat shortage in Western and Central Europe, that fruit-filled kreplach, known as varenikes, became popular.