What is the difference between matza and crackers?

Question

they are both flat..


I am doing a project on matza if you can give me an explanation or something at all that you know about matza it will help me a lot..
Thank you

Answer 1

Matza is baked underf controlled conditons to ensure that it doesnt rise and that no food other than flour and water is included.

Answer 2

You may not know what matzoh is for. During the Exodus, when the Hebrew slaves were leaving Egypt, they didn't have time for bread to rise so they ate bread that wasn't risen. Bread must have been very different in those days than today. Unrisen bread must have been sort of like a brick! You had to have good teeth.



Anyway today on Passover, Jews eat unleavened bread to remind them of leaving Egypt, but it's a flatbread. Sort of like a cracker. In fact these days there are so many kinds of crackers, there are some that are just flour and water. For a cracker, yeast or baking powder are not really as necessary as they are for a -loaf- of bread.



Someone said you should buy a box and try it, and I second that idea. It's not bad with a little butter. I used to eat it all the time with peanut butter and jelly (but you have to be careful because if you bite it the wrong way it shatters and makes a mess all over your shirt). It's kind of dry and tasteless, but Jewish kids grow up with it so it becomes one of those childhood foods associated with holidays. I'm sure it's nothing at all like what bronze age slaves ate during a mass revolt and migration 4000 years ago.

Answer 3

Matzoh Crackers

Answer 4

lol, good question!



Matzah is special because it is made without any sort of leavening (no yeast, baking soda or baking powder, etc.)



Matzah that is kosher for Passover has had its wheat flour carefully watched (been under rabbinic supervision, it's called) to make sure no water comes in contact with it until just before baking. This ensures that no natural leavening may occur before baking. The time limit between adding water to the flour and baking the matzah is eighteen minutes, tops!



Like another post said, matzah isn't eaten alone, generally. for Passover, we have it topped with charoset, a kind of fruit and nut spread that represents the mortar of building, and sometimes prepared horseradish. Also good with cream cheese and salsa!



Hope this helped.

Answer 5

Matzah has absolutely NO leavening. No baking powder, which is in other crackers. And Matzah is STRICTLY controlled, to be sure that the Matzah meal has NEVER touched water until it is intentionally being prepared.



Why not just go to the supermarket and BUY a box of Matzah...if your report is about Passover, then be sure the box SAYS it is for Passover on it. Use it for the report. Take a taste, hand pieces out to the students, so everyone can compare the taste.





PS most people don't eat Matzah just plain...you put things on it. I like it with butter.

Answer 6

Matza is unleavened no yeast , baking powder etc. Crackers have all that.

Answer 7

Matzah is totally unleavened while crackers may be flat the fact remains; crackers have leaven in them.



Also Matzah is Rabbi blessed and certified Kosher while crackers can be either Kosher or non-Kosher.

Answer 8

Matzo is a cracker, just a specifc type.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder

http://musclys.blogspot.com/2006/04/pass-matzo.html

Answer 10

prayers said over it