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When I need some good kosher food,
there's only three words I need to know:
feed, me, bubbe.
(music playing)
Today, we're gonna make cookies.
Now, this time of the year,
there are a lot of festivals and holidays.
And what better recipe to have children take part
than these cookies?
And today is the children's video.
And we're gonna start with cookies.
Uh, let me...
Jewish holiday is Chanukah,
and that's when the Jewish army conquered an ancient army.
It's not a religious event.
It's a historical event.
And there was a little bit of oil left.
And they brought it to the temple,
and it burned for eight days.
And this is the event.
So, we celebrate Chanukah eight days.
And you know, we have another recipe
that we had made before which was potato latkes.
But today is children's video.
And I hope you'll all join us and take part.
And, children, watch,
so that you'll be able to do it also.
And now, let's begin.
Uh, Bubbe, Bubbe, Bubbe, Bubbe.
What's the matter? Did I forget something?
Um, yeah.
Oh, what did I forget?
Let's not begin just yet.
Okay. What did I forget?
We forgot something pretty important.
We have guests.
We have holiday guests this episode.
Oh, we... Alright. So, who's the guest?
Chow.com.
Oh, that's right. We had an interview with them.
Yes, we did.
Yes, yeah. Alright.
Now, we're all talking about Chanukah.
Well, I'm gonna get back behind the camera,
and I'll let you continue.
And now, let's begin.
Now, regarding the cookie recipe,
it's very simple.
I have one suggestion, though.
If you possibly can make the dough ahead of time,
and you can store it in the refrigerator
and bring it a little bit to room temperature,
so that when you do it with the children,
you'll have the basic all prepared.
And this is my mother's recipe,
as you can see how the pages
have been used quite a lot.
And there are not that many ingredients.
I have three cups of flour,
and I have two teaspoons of baking powder,
a quarter of salt,
a cup of sugar,
and a stick of margarine.
Or you can use a stick of the shortening,
which they have now.
It has no trans fat ac... Trans fat in it.
And the reason why I like a solid margarine,
it makes it for a better cookie dough,
similar to almost the piecrust dough.
And let's begin.
The first thing is to sift the flour and the salt
and the baking powder altogether.
Okay, that's done.
And then, the sugar, the eggs and the margarine,
or if you use the shortening.
I like to make it pareve, so that...
Pareve, meaning that you can eat it
with meat or dairy.
And it should be soft.
And a cup of sugar.
Okay.
And also, on the side,
have flour to put on your board,
so that the dough won't stick when you're making the cookies.
And now, we'll have to go over to my mixer
to mix the first scoop of ingredients.
And now, at my mixer...
And the first thing is you have to cream your sugar,
your shortening and the eggs,
which I'm going to do now.
And medium high, I think, should do this.
And now, I'm going to add my flour ingredients.
However, let me explain.
If you have a food processor, it's wonderful.
You can add the whole thing.
However, my food processor is very small.
So, I have to kind of adjust.
And when I've done this, I add a little bit of flour to start.
Put it on Number 1 speed on your mixer.
Then, add...
Oh, maybe a third of the flour,
just to start to form a dough,
so it will mix.
You see how it's getting pebble-y?
There it is.
And the rest... And then, I'm gonna stop this.
And I'm going to do the rest by hand.
And now, I'm gonna bring the bowl
with mixture and the flour to my work area,
and I'm going to do the rest by hand.
I'm mixing in the bowl, so that the flour will mix
and form a dough, similar to a pie dough.
And this is my last bit of flour.
And mix it in, so that you'll get a dough.
And that's... I should be able to spread it out on my cookies.
If you find that the dough
is not as stiff as it should be,
add a little more flour.
Or later, I'll show you when I take it out after,
you can put it in the refrigerator,
so it'll become a little bit more stiff.
I sprinkled some flour on the board.
The reason being, so that it won't stick.
And I finally made this into a ball after I mixed it.
And knead it a little bit, so it'll stay together.
Let me get this out of the way.
And what I like to do is cut it in three parts.
It's easier to work.
And take the part... Take them.
And wrap it in Saran Wrap.
This way, you can put it in the refrigerator.
And I think this dough has pretty little too much flour.
Pretty stiff.
But like I say, it's easy to make this ahead of time
with the children.
And then, you have... It's time to roll it out.
Put a little flour on your rolling pin.
And roll it all to about an eighth of an inch.
Don't be exact.
These are homemade cookies, and it doesn't matter
if they're a little thicker or whatever.
Not too thick because, after all,
you want them to bake.
Okay, Bubbe.
Now, it's time for the Yiddish Word of the Day.
Bubbe, what is today's...
Not yet. Hold it.
Let's do Ask Bubbe first.
Okay, then, let's do Ask Bubbe.
(music playing)
Bubbe, now, usually I know
that there's an Ask Bubbe,
and I don't even know what's going on.
So, what's today's Ask Bubbe, then?
I didn't realize that I have so many young video viewers
of my "Feed Me Bubbe" show.
And I'm very proud.
And so, I...
The first three that I received I'm gonna read them.
And I wanna give recognition to the children.
They deserve it,
and I hope they take part in the Chanukah
and the festival baking of cookies.
And, oh, let me just say one thing.
Not only that, but look at my sweet-and-sour meatballs.
What episode, Avrom?
Episode Number 3, I believe.
Okay.
It's easy for them to make.
And let them be a young host and hostess.
Put the toothpicks in the meatballs.
They can roll the meatballs.
And let them do the serving.
Let them have...
Be proud of what their accomplishments are.
And the dessert, of course, will be the cookies.
Okay? Are you ready, Avrom?
Alright, let's see.
What's today's first Ask Bubbe?
This first one is very nice.
And it's written,
"My name is Alex, and my Busia,"
I hope to pronounce it right, B-U-S-I-A,
"Polish for grandmother. And I love your show.
I am eight years old
and would like to cook for my bubbe.
Something easy, please."
Let me see what else she says.
Oh, she says,
"Busia helped with the spelling.
Take care of yourself, Bubbe.
Say hello to your grandson from this grandson.
Your friend, Alex."
Oh, that's why you were keeping it from me.
You wanted...
Yeah, it was a surprise.
Did you realize how young they are?
Oh, wow.
And this is the second one.
And this one came from Timmy and Becky.
Hi, Timmy and Becky.
Hi, Timmy, Becky.
And they can't...
They're waiting patiently for this episode.
So, we'll you let know when we're having it on the air,
and you'll be the first to see it.
What else do we got?
Oh, this one is very nice.
This one came from Rafi,
and Rafi even sent us a picture.
And her children cook with their bubbe.
And so, we have a picture of Rafi's children,
Alice and Wendy. Hi, Alice and Wendy.
Hey, Alice. Hi, Wendy.
We have to say hi to them.
Can I show them the picture?
Yeah, show them the picture.
Okay, and this is their picture.
Oh, wow.
How do you like that?
Look at that.
With their bubbe and zeyde. And I thought that was so nice.
And thank you for being part of my family.
And I hope I'm part of yours.
Well, if you'd like to ask Bubbe,
feedme@chalutzproductions.com.
Make sure to e-mail feedme@chalutzproductions.com.
A lot of people have been e-mailing Webmaster
or all these other...
That's right. Yes, and we can't...
And you know, Avrom...
And I feel so sorry I can't answer them.
So, make sure. It's W-W...
No, no, no. No W.
It's an e-mail address.
Alright, I'm sorry.
So, it's feedme@chalutzproductions.com.
Or look for the number that's down here
and leave a voice mail.
But when you leave a voice mail,
at the end of your voice mail,
if you want an answer back,
make sure to leave an e-mail address,
so we can e-mail you.
Yes, please, because we receive some,
there's no address, and I feel badly.
And you're wondering why you're not getting
an answer from us.
So, take a little extra time,
and make sure you send us the message correctly.
And now, it's time for the Yiddish Word of the Day.
Bubbe, we're not gonna go
to the Yiddish word just yet, actually.
You surprised me. So, I have a surprise for you.
Okay, I love surprises.
Alright.
Here, I've gotten you this for the Chanukah.
Oh, my.
Oh, thank you.
But, Avrom, I told you, Chanukah...
I'd like to give Chanukah Gelt to the children.
The adults, nothing.
Let them have a good meal with potato latkes and cookies.
But I appreciate, sweetheart.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
I really app... They're beautiful.
They're beautiful.
And what's the Yiddish Word for today?
I'm gonna ask you.
But I have a special Yiddish word.
You have a special Yiddish word?
Yes, I do, special for Alex.
Alex wants to know what the Yiddish word is for friend.
And so, the Yiddish word is fraynt.
All the children, you're all my fraynt.
And you're all my little friends.
And I love you all.
And I wanna show you something.
What do you wanna show us?
Pictures.
See, this picture is of my mother
with my children.
And they're getting... Look at...
Notice the apron that my bubbe put my mother,
Bubbe first put on them.
She took a towel and wrapped it around them.
And see the smiles, how happy they are.
And this one,
this is Avrom.
He must have been about three-and-a-half,
four years old, in my kitchen.
I can't believe you still have that.
Well...
And he came here,
and he was learning how to make cupcakes.
We'll do that another time.
So, you see, it's from generation to generation.
It hasn't stopped.
And the memories linger on.
Now, Avrom, what else do you have?
Anything else special?
Well, I don't know.
You called me, and you told me
you had something special for me...
I know. I wonder...
...that's why I got you the flowers.
I wonder if you have anything to say
before I tell you what I have.
Well, tell me what you have first, then I'm...
Oh, I have something very special.
Let me show you.
How do you like this?
This is a mint blue.
It has Bubbe's picture on it.
How do you like that?
Here, let me hold that for you.
Okay.
Let's see. Oh, wow.
Look at that.
It says, "Feed Me Bubbe" on it.
And turn around on the back.
Alright.
And this says,
"When I need some good kosher food,
there's only three words I need to know:
Feed Me Bubbe."
And we have it in the children's, too.
Oh, we have children's available?
Yes, that's for the grown-ups,
the teenagers, and this is for the children.
And they don't have my picture
because, you know, after all, they're little.
They can't...
They have to have their own bubbes.
So, there's no picture on the children's version.
No, this is...
This is from their bubbe to them.
So, we thought we'd leave them out.
And bubbes and zeydes,
add a little extra to your Chanukah.
And not only that, Avrom, tell them what we're doing.
Well, uh...
So, we actually are going to do it
'cause I know we've discussed about this.
Yes.
Okay, then. Awesome.
Um, because I know a few episodes ago,
we were talking about tsdoke as one of the Yiddish words...
Right.
...and how important tsdoke is.
So, because...
Do they know what tsdoke means?
Tsdoke...
Charity.
Tsdoke... Well, you said, it was alms
or helping out with the poor.
It is helping out.
Right. So, the thing is is that we wanna be able
to help out, too.
Well, I mean, it's very important to help.
So, we decided to team up with Mazon,
which is an organization that helps out with hunger...
Hunger, actually...
All over the world.
Right, exactly. And that matches with our show.
Right.
With having hunger.
And so, tell them what we're gonna do.
So, what we're gonna do is for every 100 shirts sold,
we're gonna do $100 to Mazon,
so that way, there's charity going...
Right, so that every $1 from each shirt that we sell
will go to Mazon.
So, that way, we're getting everything prepared for that.
And check the Web site and check the newsletter.
For the information, right.
We'll let you know. We'll have the information.
We'll have the information on how to order them.
And look at the color. It's pretty.
And, oh, I'd be so happy to see the little ones.
So, take pictures and send them to me.
And the adults, too,
because they had bubbes, too, and the memories.
Well, everybody's been actually asking for this,
but they've been asking that we go,
and we do it at a normal price form,
'cause sometimes the T-shirts can be up
like $22, $23.
And we want to make it as much as low as possible.
So, probably $15...
So that we're making this a little lower...
But we feel that this is something for tsdoke,
and also everyone will feel, will have
the little "Feed Me Bubbe" to wear along with it.
So, like probably in the 15, 16-dollar range,
which is a decent price, T-shirt-wise.
Right, correct.
Right.
Okay, we'll be in touch.
And the other announcements, of course,
me.dium.com,
M-E, dot, D-I-U-M, dot, C-O-M.
You can check out "Feed Me Bubbe" episodes
before anybody else.
And, Bubbe, actually, you go on sometimes.
I do. I was with them several times.
I've had editorials and opinions.
It's fun. I feel I'm like the big shot.
Not that I am. I feel that I'm Bubbe.
And I feel very comfortable in my kitchen.
And I feel like I'm helping other bubbes, as well.
And we wanna say hi to everybody
from Video on the Net conference.
We were there in Boston.
That's right. Right.
Lots of fun. It was great meeting all of you.
Bubbe, you went over to the Roxy.
Oh, shh.
And you had a lot of fun there.
We were on a panel.
And I felt very comfortable.
And there were a lot of questions
that were asked of us.
I think we did a pretty good job.
It was fun to do it.
Well, we had fun.
And as I was saying,
just even with the, like, after-parties and stuff,
you still hung out there with everybody else.
You were just...
There were so many, so many people.
And the place was so big.
And everyone was so nice to us.
Thank you, everyone.
Thank you very much.
We'll be right back.
Now, uh, Bubbe, you know how I'm always bringing
my notebook around that I'm constantly...
Right. Yes, always schlepping.
Exactly. I'm schlepping it all over the place.
Right.
There's now an easier solution.
How?
GoToMyPC.
Right. Oh, yeah.
GoToMyPC can save the day.
How?
Now, it lets you access your PC from anywhere.
So, you can be anywhere, and...
So, for me, it'd be excellent.
I can go away for a couple of days,
and we can work at a...
Yeah, you can grab the file you need,
and you can be fine.
You don't have to worry about, "Oh, the file's stuck on my PC."
Oh.
You just grab it off the PC by using GoToMyPC
from any computer anywhere.
Wonderful, alright. So, what am I supposed to do?
It just makes life easier. So, then, GoToMyPC.
You can operate your PC just like you were there.
You understand that.
So, use all your programs, your file network resources...
Yeah.
...and your e-mail from anywhere.
So, here.
We're looking at our computer right now.
And the thing is is that our users
can actually go and use GoToMyPC free today,
a special offer just for our "Feed Me Bubbe" viewers.
So, it's gotomypc.com/podcast.
That's correct. Thirty days of GoToMyPC free
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Well, I'll tell you,
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it's gonna be even better for you.
Try GoToMyPC free today.
First, let me tell you about the pans.
I only have one cookie sheet.
And I like to line it with parchment paper
because you don't have to grease it,
and the cookies bake beautifully.
But like anything else, you have to...
With cookies, you have to keep going.
And cookies take 8 to 10 mins.
And then, while that 8 minutes,
you have another batch.
So, what I do is improvise.
And this is my suggestion for improvise.
See, this is my pizza pan.
Take the pizza pan, cover it with aluminum foil,
a little grease, there's another pan.
And then, I have my third pan.
And this is my ordinary 9x13 pan.
But you don't wanna make cookies in here
because they won't bake right.
So, take an aluminum foil,
add a little bit of grease.
Remember, I told you about the aluminum foil
that is pre-greased.
Turn it upside down.
Bake your cookies right on top of the pan,
and they'll come out beautifully.
So, don't go out and buy new pans.
Try to improvise. And you'll save money.
It'll be more fun
because you made it something different.
First, I'm taking the cookie cutters.
Put a little flour on because it's easier to cut.
Place it.
This happens to be my dreidel.
Take the...
Take a little knife or spatula.
Just a little help.
It should come out easily.
And this is the start.
And then, what you do is you take your dough,
reshape it.
It'll reshape very easily, almost like pie dough.
Roll it out.
Well, flatten things with your hand, whatever,
and go to the next step.
And what I do is use what's available.
For example, I have this...
This is gonna be like Chanukah gelt, okay?
So, we'll cut little squares, in the flour,
a little movement,
and then you have another one,
and so on.
And whatever you happen to pick up
and different designs,
whatever you find.
You can use cookie cutters
or whatever designs you have around the house.
And continue until you fill up one tray.
And get it ready to be on.
It goes into a preheated 375 oven.
And bake them until they're just a little brown
on the edges, light brown.
And I'm gonna show you how I decorate them
before I put them in the oven
and after I put them in the oven.
I have one egg white here.
And the reason why I use the egg white
is because it makes the sugar stick.
So, I'm taking this little brush.
Just... Oh, there I...
Sorry, we had an accident here.
Well, we'll just get a little...
Alright.
A little here, a little here, a little here...
and here.
And then, I have my jimmies.
I like the colored ones. I think they're very attractive.
And this will make it stick.
Take a little spoon and decorate wherever you like,
then smooth it out.
That's one thing.
Then, the chocolate ones,
this is like the Chanukah gelt.
So, you only put the chocolate ones
on the round ones resembling...
Chocolate is eaten for Chanukah.
A lot of people use a lot of chocolate for Chanukah.
There.
These are my make-believe coins
That's one type.
And then, you know, use your imagination.
A little bit sugar, add some...
You don't have to measure.
And then, I have another one.
They have, you know, the colored sugar.
Let me see now. This is the sprinkled one.
And so, I sprinkle.
And, oh, they come in different colors.
And you have a variety.
And this is the part that the children
are gonna enjoy the most, they can help you with.
And now, we're ready to put them on the cookie sheet
and place them in the oven.
I've placed my decorated cookies on my cookie sheet.
If you notice, this one is plain.
Reason being that when it comes out of the oven,
we're gonna decorate it special,
where the children will have more fun
than even just putting the sugars on.
And now, I'm ready to put it into my 375 oven.
And this is the fun part for the children.
I think this is better than even putting a little sugar.
You know, these little tubes are wonderful.
They're easy to handle, and for children...
And they come in a variety of colors.
And so, now, I'm gonna decorate it
with this icing.
And just squeeze it right...
You make your designs, whatever you like.
This will... Oh, well, I think what we'll do
is we'll have blue all around.
You know, I'm sure the children will do it better than I can.
And it's a lot of fun because it's their creation.
It makes it very original.
And now, a little dot over here,
and we'll add a little yellow for color.
I'll show you...
Oh, well, we'll put a little yellow in the middle.
Yellow? Yeah, that's yellow.
There.
How about if we just make a little design like that?
Okay? Okay?
How do you like that?
You know what, children, you can do?
If you can, send me pictures through the e-mail
and see how you decorate it.
It'll be a lot of fun to see.
How do you like that one?
A Happy Chanukah.
Have a healthy, happy holidays.
Enjoy.
Ess gezunterhait.
See you next time.
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Hi, Bubbe.
My name is Susan, and I'm from Novi, Michigan.
I absolutely love your Web site.
I love your cooking.
You are the Jewish Julia Child.
And everything is just fantastic.
It's so adorable.
I made a copy of all your recipes.
Anyway, again, I just thank you so much
for your fabulous recipes.
And I just love your Yiddish Words of the Day.
It's just the best.
Just thank you for everything.
You just made me smile all afternoon
as I'm copying your recipes and watching your videos.
And, um, I quick e-mailed my son to watch, too.
So, I just...
Thank you very much, and thank you to Avrom,
for having this wonderful idea
and sharing your precious bubbe with all of us.
Bye-bye.
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