Making Rugalech

This past Tuesday and Wednesday, our Edot, Shira and Y'tzira 5th and 6th graders spent the first part of each session up in the Oneg Room, learning how to make one of my favorite Jewish pastries - rugalech.

It's an easy recipe, but whenever you have a roomful of eager students enjoying the social interaction of working together, and couple that with a lot of cinnamon and sugar and flour, it's bound to get a bit messy. My hat goes off to Karen and Stephanie who shop for, prepare and set out all the ingredients (including making the dough for each table) and baking tools before each session begins, instruct us on how to prepare the recipe, and then bake and clean up after we leave for other school activities. We all look forward to the final 10 minutes or so of the class day, when they bring the baked goods in plastic bags down to each of our three classrooms for each student to take home (or eat immediately, as the case may be!).

YASHER KO'ACH, KAREN! (Hebrew, for "hats off to you!")

YASHER KO'ACH, STEPHANIE!

I'll let the photos tell the story of how the rugelach is made and how focused the students were on getting it right. (And they did - they were delicious!).

B'TEYAVON!  BON APETIT!

(Hopefully, you all received the recipe by e-mail - if you haven't, let me know and I'll send it to you.)