Travados are Sephardi Jewish pastries made from a tender, oil-based dough shaped into half-moons and filled with a mixture of ground walnuts or almonds — sometimes both — combined with sugar, cinnamon, and occasionally raisins or currants for a faint chewiness against the ground nuts. They are baked until golden and then dipped while still […]

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Tishpishti is a Sephardi Jewish semolina and walnut cake soaked in a sugar syrup flavored with lemon and sometimes orange blossom water or rose water. It is made without flour and without dairy, which places it squarely within the requirements of a kosher kitchen where meat and milk are not mixed — a practical consideration […]

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