The “King of the Matzos” was Zuske Levitt.
Dusiat Elementary School – Second and Third Grade Classes. July 18, 1921.
the instrument for pricking holes in the dough. A woman would stand and quickly knead the dough, and girls who sat around the table each received one portion of dough, and as quick as a wink they rounded and rolled out the dough, and one A woman lighting candles before Shabbat or Yom Tov of the boys would bring the “round sheets” to the baker, who quickly placed them in the oven, and in two minutes, perhaps less, round, warm and tasty matzos came out of it. There was a lot of tension in the room. “Quickly! Quickly! So the dough doesn’t sour …
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He would hurry to put the dough in the oven, lest it sour, and would hurry to take it out, lest it burn… We, the young children, volunteered to help him roll out the dough and to prick holes. I remember that we were afraid to breathe a word because he set about so intensely at his work.
I recall taking down the dishes, the Passover dishes, from the attic. For Passover we used the prettiest dishes, and to me they were dishes fit for royalty. The glass sparkled like crystal, the cutlery was polished to a shine, and on the table were seven tablecloths, one on top of the other, for fear that there might be the residue of hametz – leavened bread or any food not kosher for Pesach… For the Bdikat Hametz – the symbolic search for the last crumbs of leavened bread – my mother would place some breadcrumbs in different places in the house. The house was dark, and my father, with two feathers in his hand, would go from place to place by candlelight, searching and gathering the crumbs into a wooden spoon. The next morning they burned the leavened food.The absolute greatest joy was when everyone got new clothes. We would go outside and show them off.
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