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Food cooked in oil, especially latkas (potato pancakes) and doughnuts. This symbolises the miracle which the festival celebrates when in the Temple which had been ransacked by the Greeks there was only enough oil to light a lamp for one day but miraculously the lamp burned for eight days.

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