In Gibraltar, where Jews have lived for about 650 years, there’s a special recipe for Passover’s charoset replacing apples: the dust of real bricks.

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For most of its 4,000-year history, Chocolate was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a sweet edible treat.

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Thomas Jefferson’s Macaroni Recipe:

6 eggs. yolks & whites.
2 wine glasses of milk
2 lb of flour
a little salt
work them together without water, and very well.
roll it then with a roller to a paper thickness
cut it into small peices which roll again with the hand into long slips, & then cut them to a proper length.
put them into warm water a quarter of an hour.
drain them.
dress them as maccaroni.
but if they are intended for soups they are to be put in the soup & not into warm water.

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