I have loved cooking for Passover since childhood. My mother used to set me to pounding the nuts in a brass mortar; now I use my food processor. I still grate apples by hand for charoses, and except for whipping the egg whites, mix the cake batter by hand. Every year I make a matzo spice sponge cake (recipe is in the Settlement Cookbook)--12 eggs, ground nuts, spices, wine. Generally it is also the only sponge cake I make all year. Charoses is simple--grate apples, grind nuts, mix together and moisten with wine. What I did different this year is take pictures, since I admire the step-by-step that other people post on fixing cars or making electric generating wind turbines. So included here is my cake and charoses in pictures.
