{"id":1809,"date":"2017-04-04T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:02:32","slug":"10-earth-shattering-facts-about-matzos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/10-earth-shattering-facts-about-matzos\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Earth-shattering facts about Matzos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Matzo, matza, matzah \u2013 whatever you call it, you can\u2019t help but love its crispy, flame-baked goodness. We call it Matzo, with a capital \u2018M\u2019, because it\u2019s such an important part of our family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Passover creeping ever closer, we thought we\u2019d pay tribute to the mighty Matzo by endowing you with some useful knowledge about the humble cracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Barack Obama<\/em> was the first American President to observe the Seder of Passover and eat Matzo at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When making Matzo, the moment the water touches the flour, the mixture must be kneaded, rolled and baked within 18 minutes, otherwise it will rise and won\u2019t become a real unleavened (meaning, dough that hasn\u2019t risen) Matzo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18-minute rule is taken so seriously that in 2001, Israel&#8217;s <em>Interior Ministry<\/em> even conducted raids on local restaurants to make sure they weren&#8217;t serving leavened Matzo during Passover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2008, Joey Chestnut, a competitive-eater, ate 78 matzo balls in eight minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When inside the oven, Matzo dough is never baked below 600 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally, Matzos were rounded and made by hand in temple, but advances in industrial technology meant that they had to became square, just like ours at <strong><em>Rakusen\u2019s.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A<\/em>&nbsp;Frenchman named <em>Isaac Singer<\/em> invented an industrial machine capable of rolling Matzo dough <em>en masse <\/em>in 1838. This cut production time and enabled mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to <em>Singer\u2019s<\/em> machine a huge row erupted over the tradition of Matzo production. One Rabbi, <em>Solomun Kluger<\/em>, published an impassioned declaration against the square, machine made Matzos, whilst his brother-in-law, Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson, wrote an equally emotional retort in defense of those that were industrially produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest Matzo ball ever produced weighed a whopping 121 KG. It took 1000 eggs and 36 KG of margarine to make!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each Matzo has approximately 800 holes that help stop the dough from rising; you\u2019d get pita bread if you didn\u2019t include the holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Passover creeping ever closer, we thought we\u2019d pay tribute to the mighty Matzo by endowing you with some useful knowledge about the humble cracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,32,52,36,42,34,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakusens.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}