Matzo cheese latkes (pancakes)

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 Egg yolks
8 ounces Pot cheese or cottage cheese, well drained
1½ cup Matzo meal
2 To 3 Tbsp sugar
½ teaspoon Cinnamon
Salt, to taste
4 Egg whites, at room temperature
3 To 4 Tbsp butter or margarine, for frying

Directions

In a mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks until they light and frothy. Stir in the cheese, matzo meal, sugar, and cinnamon. Mix well. Taste and add salt if needed.

In another bowl, beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks. Fold the egg whites in the egg/cheese/matzo mixture.

In a frying pan, melt some of the butter/margarine. Drop the batter into the hot butter/margarine by the heaping tablespoonfuls. Fry the latkes until golden brown on each side. Add more butter/margarine as needed.

Repeat until all the mixture is used. Serve with sour cream or syrup or jam. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Recipe: Mama Leah's Jewish Kitchen, A Compendium Of More Than 225 Tasty Recipes -- Kugel To Kasha -- Blintzes To Borscht -- by Leah Loeb Fischer with Maria Poluskin Robbins.

Copyrighted 1990 Published by MacMillan Publishing Company.

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