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While most Jews start thinking about matzah mere weeks before the holiday begins, for Streit’s, their Passover season starts in the fall, after the High Holidays, with the manufacturing of essential matzah-adjacent Passover products like matzah meal, matzah farfel and cake meal.—Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025 A few years ago, a friend gave us a recipe for granola made with matzo farfel, small bits of matzo that come in a can.—Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
Word History
Etymology
Yiddish farfl (plural), from Middle High German varveln noodles, noodle soup
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