A Brief Explanation Why Cheese is So Popular During Shavout

Jewish holidays are popular and very exotic and today we shall be talking to you about Shavuot. It is one of the most happening and disputed occasions celebrated by our friends. It is held on the sixth day of the Jewish month of Sivan, sometime around the months of May and June. It is an official holiday and commemorates the Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai by God.

A little bit about its history tells us that King David, was born and he even died on the holy occasion of Shavuot. Many go on treks to Jerusalem and spend their day praying, while others celebrate it with food and merry making. The festival is also closely connected to the harvest season and barley is mainly harvested around this time—the PASSOVER to be precise and wheat is at the time when Shavuot is celebrated. Now during the festival a lot of dairy products are consumed, since it is said while the Ten Commandments were being given to Moses, the people who wanted to rejoice had very little knowledge on how to prepare meat, hence CHEESE!

So if you are in for a celebration with Cheese Blintzes and mouth watering pieces of yummy Cheesecake, and other cheese items are often eaten on Shavuot, then you would be one happy man at the end of the ceremony. After the Bible reading is done and the prayers are held, the cheese delicacies are brought out;

Here are some famous recipe names that are cooked during Shavuot;

We all know that it is a fact that dairy products are largely consumes during Shavuot, so cheesecake is one of the favourites during the festival. Apart from that, many these days are on cheesecakes which are low in calories and you can find plenty of recipes online to suit your taste buds. The cheesecake is mandatory at Shavuot and with a crust tastes even better; the crust can be made from an assortment of cookies and mixes with or without butter.

The Frozen Chocolate Cheesecake is served when guests come visiting and is made days in advance and kept in the freezers. The famous Israeli Cheesecake is the must have on the list of platter yummies! Even the ones who hate cheese or don’t like cheesecake would go mad about it and want more. The main ingredient for this cake would be the use of Israeli white cheese, and hence the mouth watering delicacy. You could even try the exotic Crème Bruleè Cheesecake to suit your palette this time around Shavuot.

So while you go wishing people on the joyous occasion don’t forget to dip your fangs into the whole cheesecake that beckons!! Or you may have not celebrated in fullest form the holy Sabbath of Shavuot! Bon apetite my friends!

-Written by Sans Ant