Lekach
Sign in to saveLekach is a honey-sweetened cake made by Jews, especially for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Known in Hebrew as (, ), it is mainly eaten in Israel by Israeli Jews and Jewish people all over the world who know it by its Yiddish name, (), phono-semantically matched in Hebrew as [ugat] lekakh (, ) influenced by the Biblical association of teaching with honey. It is traditionally eaten at Rosh Hashanah in hopes of ensuring a sweet New Year. It is also customary to ask for and receive a honey cake on Erev Yom Kippur.
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- Lekach
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- 250px
- Food.alternate_name
- Ugat Dvash, Honey Cake
- Food.country
- Israel, Jewish Diaspora
- Food.region
- Ashkenazi Communities of Eastern Europe
- Food.creator
- Ashkenazi People
- Food.course
- Dessert
- Food.type
- Cake
- Food.served
- Room temperature
- Food.main_ingredient
- Rye flour, honey, spices, baking powder
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Lekach is a honey-sweetened cake made by Jews, especially for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Known in Hebrew as (, ), it is mainly eaten in Israel by Israeli Jews and Jewish people all over the world who know it by its Yiddish name, (), phono-semantically matched in Hebrew as [ugat] lekakh (, ) influenced by the Biblical association of teaching with honey. It is traditionally eaten at Rosh Hashanah in hopes of ensuring a sweet New Year. It is also customary to ask for and receive a honey cake on Erev Yom Kippur.
==History== Various sorts of cakes sweetened with honey have been known since ancient times, in Egypt, Rome, and the Middle East. Arabs brought these traditions to Sicily and Moorish Spain. In the 11th century, a type of strongly spiced thick cake made from breadcrumbs and honey, resembling panforte, became popular in Italy. Italian Jews brought some of these styles to Western and Central Europe. The earliest known record in a Jewish source of a cake called lekach, from the Middle High German , 'to lick', was in the Medieval ages in Sefer ha-Rokeach by Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, Germany.