Name: Spring Compote
Ingredients: 3 blood or navel oranges, or a combination, peeled, white pith and any seeds removed; Fresh mint leaves, for garnish (optional); 1 cup (about 5 ounces) fresh raspberries; ½ cup (about 4 ounces) pitted prunes, halved, or if large, quartered; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 vanilla bean, split; 1 pound rhubarb, washed, trimmed, tough strings removed with a vegetable peeler, and cut into 1-inch pieces (discard the leaves; they are toxic); Toasted Almond—Coconut Macaroons and/or Hazelnut Macaroons; ¾ cup sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Gefilte Variations

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2000

About

Tucked in among the horseradish, haroset, and other symbolic foods, there might be an orange on some of the newest seder plates. According to Alisa Solomon of the Village Voice (April 2, 1996), this addition has its roots in a wonderful story most attribute to theologian Susannah Heschel.

Solomon recounts that a man interrupted a talk Heschel was giving in Florida on women and Judaism some years ago, heckling, “A woman belongs in the rabbi’s pulpit and other places of Jewish