Charoset is the sweet dark colored paste made of fruit (usually apples), walnuts, honey, and wine. It's symbolic of the mortar used to hold together the bricks Jews made in Egypt.
The best apples to use for making charoset are typically sweet and firm varieties like Honeycrisp, Gala, or Fuji. These apples hold their shape well and add a nice sweetness to the dish.
The charoset is a sweet mixture representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the storehouses of Egypt.See also the Related Link.More about Passover and its symbolic foods
Charoset represents the mortar used in construction when we were slaves.
First, charoset is a mixture of nuts, fruit and wine. Some charoset recipes are paste-like, others are chunky, but at the Passover seder, however it is made, charoset symbolizes the mortar used by the Israelite slaves in Egypt in their labor for Pharoah.
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Jews dip parsley in salt water to remind them of the tears during slavery. They eat charoset because it represents the mortar from the bricks.
It symbolizes the mortar used by the ancient Israelites to build.
It looks like what the Jews used to make bricks in Egypt, so it represents the bricks that the Jews were forced to make.
The dish made from apple, nuts, honey, wine, and spices is called charoset. This is the recipe used by Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews usually make a cooked version of charoset that has dates instead of apples.
The typical items found on the Passover Seder plate include: maror (bitter herbs), charoset (a sweet paste made of fruit and nuts), karpas (a vegetable, often parsley), chazeret (additional bitter herbs), zeroa (a roasted lamb shank bone or chicken neck), and beitzah (a hard-boiled egg).
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