Silvia’s Charoset

Charoset is one of the symbolic elements of the Passover Seder plate and I have never met two people who make it the same way. This is part of its beauty: there are endless recipes for it, often linked to the country, city or even shtetl (small town or village) of origin in the Ashkenazi case. They all, however, have roughly the same consistency, that of mortar, as that is what this dish is meant to remind us of. In fact, its meaning - from the Hebrew cheres which me