As the gas releases, it makes little air bubbles in dough, and so the bread puffs up and rises.īut wait! Passover matzah is flat and unrisen. When yeast feeds on the sugar and water we put in our mixing bowl, it also breaks down parts of the flour and turns that into sugar too.Īs the yeast eats its way through its delicious sugar dinner, it slowly begins to release a gas called carbon dioxide. Yeast’s favorite meal is sugar with a little warm water. Just like people, yeast needs food to live. Yeast is a type of fungi (yes-like mushrooms!). Today Jews eat an unrisen cracker called matzah to remember their ancestor’s journey.īefore we start making our matzah, let’s take a look at the science of bread.īelieve it or not, the first ingredient on the list, yeast, is actually alive. They didn’t have time to let their bread rise as they were rushing to leave. Passover is the holiday that celebrates the time, many years ago, when the Israelites, ancient ancestors of the Jewish people, escaped from slavery in Egypt. Matzah is the bread that Jewish people eat during the springtime holiday of Passover. author Etan Basseri What is matzah, anyway? But when Ezra makes a mistake and the matzah is ruined, what will he and his sister Roza, do? Join the siblings as they experience the sights, smells, sounds, and unique traditions of a seder in Iran in the 1950s. Ezra is proud to be in charge of bringing his family’s flour to the synagogue to be baked into matzah in a traditional wood-burning oven. Publisher Description: Ezra and Roza are helping to prepare for their Passover celebration. In A Persian Passover, the new picture book by Etan Basseri with illustrations by Rashin Kheiriyeh (Kalaniot Books, March, 2022), Ezra and his sister, Roza have their matzah baked outside in the synagogue courtyard, but you can bake your own matzah right in your kitchen! Written by Etan Basseri A Persian Passover
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