What are matzo crackers?

Answer 1

Matza is unleavened bread made with just flour and water. There is no leavening used. Essentially, it's like a really big (unleavened) cracker or hardtack.

In order for it to be kosher for Passover, it must be baked within 18 minutes of the time that the flour is mixed with water (and ordinary store-bought flour is not used, since normal processing includes washing of harvested wheat).

It is specifically eaten during Passover. However, some people may eat it year round because they enjoy it.

Answer 2

Matzos are specially-prepared unleavened bread. Modern matzos (or "matzot" in Israeli Hebrew) are usually thin and cracker-like, somewhat like hardtack.

See Exodus ch.12 for the origin of Matzos. As commanded by the Torah, we eat matzos during Passover and avoid leavened foods at that time (such as bread, pasta, cereals, cakes, cookies).

Matzot were originally made either hard or soft. The soft kind (which is also unleavened) is more similar to Persian lavash bread (a less tasty wheat tortilla). These matzot are still available in some places but are usually only eaten nowadays by Jews of recent Middle Eastern descent. Over the past few centuries only hard matzot were used by most Jewish communities, as Jews became more concerned about inadvertently allowing the dough to leaven as it rose and they increased the baking temperatures.

Answer 3

Matzo flour - or matzo meal - is flour used to make matzah, the cream-cracker-like unleavened bread eaten by many Jewish people and especially associated with Passover when Jews avoid certain foods that they might eat at other times. It's also used to make other dishes, including kneidlach (dumplings usually served in soup) and a variety of cakes and biscuits. It's usually wheat, but other grains can also be used.

Answer 4

Matzo is unleavened bread. It is eaten to commemorate the unleavened bread of the Exodus, when the Israelites left Egypt so fast that they didn't have time to wait for the bread to rise. Now, it reminds us to seek to live a godly lifestyle, without sin: as leavening makes the bread "puffed-up," we want to eliminate sins in our lives that make us "puffed-up."

Answer 5

Matza is a kosher bread made for passover. It is called a cracker because it does not rise.

Answer 6

A Matzo is a dry leavened bread, similar to crispbread.

Answer 7

They are crispy crackers that are made from flour and water with no levening.