Jews can you eat stuff with flour in it on passover?

Question

I baught this cookbook and it has a section on flourless cakes for passover. I actually love flourless cakes, as tortes usually contain little or no flour. But I thought it was just leavening and salt that was not allowed. Maza bread contains flour doesn't it?

Answer 1

Yes, flour CAN be eaten on Pesach (Passover). What we are not allowed to eat is flour that has risen due to yeast. However, goods made with flour that does nto contain yeast or other leavening agents ARE kosher for Pesach and can be eaten (assuming all the other relevant laws are applied)

Answer 2

Passover Flour

Answer 3

In addition to leavening, there are five grains that are forbidden (Chametz) during Passover:

wheat, barley, spelt, rye and oats.



Also, because of the way things were done in the Middle Ages, at markets, how foods were stored, Ashkenazim aren't allowed to eat:

Corn, rice, peas, lentils, and beans. Many also include peanuts. This list varies by community, and doesn't usually apply to other traditions, like Sephardim or Yemenite Jews. Part of the reason is that in the Middle Ages, when the sales person was giving someone flour, the flour might drop into the barrel with those items. Another is that those items swell in the cooking...depends who you ask.



Many Ashkenazim are leaving that tradition, because it simply no longer applies.



Example: How does corn syrup swell? or corn oil? Or peanuts?



The term flourless cake doesn't refer to a cake made with Matzah meal substitute...it refers to a cake with no grains in it at all...I made one once. It was like eating a huge bar of chocolate! A bit heavy for my taste! Not doing that recipe again!

Answer 4

The only flour that can be used is that which has been guarded to keep it from being in contact with moisture, and leavening agents. Even this flour must be mixed and entered into the baking process before 18 minutes has elapsed. Flour and moisture will begin its own fermenting - leavening process after 18 minutes. Sourdough bread in its truest form has no yeast, but the bread rises because the dough was allowed to ferment on its own.



Kosher for Passover Matzah is baked before the 18 minutes has elapsed. It must be baked in small batches to ensure this 18 minute rule from guarded flour.



Sorry Mark S. - There are cakes made of ground nuts, not using any flour, ground matzah, cereal or anything but ground nuts, egg whites, sugar and vanilla or chocolate. Almonds and or hazelnuts are most commonly used.

Answer 5

Orthodox Jew's answer is real. To be more suitable particular, in the time of Passover Jews do not devour some thing with wheat, barley, oats, rye or spelt that has come into contact with water or moisture for more suitable than 18 minutes. Ashkenazi Jews (ethnicity initially from eastern Europe) also do not devour particular different legumes and products such as corn, beans, chickpeas, and so on. notwithstanding Sephardic Jews (ethnicity initially from Spain) do devour this stuff. that's in retaining with diverse rulings by utilising the rabbis in those communities in the time of heritage. truly, Jews devour matzah it really is especially baked crackers, supervised by utilising a rabbi to be powerful that the flour used does not upward push (leaven). brownies, cookies, and so on that are allowed in the time of Passover (kosher for Passover) many times are made with products like matzah meal (finely floor matzah that feels like flour) or potato starch. products that are kosher for Passover might want to be marked on the packaging to point that a rabbi has supervised the production procedure and it has no chametz in it.

Answer 6

eating anything with flour in it is forbidden on Passover - except matza which has flour but the dough is not allowed to rise - that is why matza that is kosher for passover must be made in 18 minutes or less (ingredients mixed and baked) otherwise it is not kosher for passover. last year my mom made a really good cinnamon crumb cake for passover (she used lady fingers) and she also makes blondies every year btw salt is allowed

Answer 7

As you can see from the other answers, the answer to both of your questions is yes, Jews can eat stuff with flour during passover.

Answer 8

Let me clarify things for you. "Flourless" cakes means that ground matzohs--which are made from flour--are used instead. Matzohs are baked such that the time from the addition of water to flour until the start of baking is no more than 18 minutes. Once baked, the matzohs are ground up again into generally two grades--matzoh meal and matzoh cake flour. The textures are like corn meal and flour, respectively. Since it's already been baked, the matzoh flour/meal can't re-rise, so it's completely kosher to bake with it. You cannot, however, use any external leavening agents. Instead, whipped egg whites are often used to make the dessert lighter.

Answer 9

No, you can't eat flour during Passover. Anything that could potentially rise (from yeast in the air, for instance) is "hametz" and forbidden. It's not the leavening that's the problem; it's that leavening could act on the flour.



Matza is OK because it was already baked without leavening.



Flourless cakes are OK if they have no grain (that includes corn starch).

Answer 10

polskajason is misguided. What do you thing that matzah is made from? You just can't eat anything with leavening in it like yeast, baking soda, or baking powder. "Kosher for Passover" matzah is made especially quickly so that there is no chance for yeast from the air to get into it before it goes into the oven.