Hanukkah pop Tuesday dark and launch the whole week , eight night in total . During these nights , a helluva lot oflatkes , or spud pancakes , are consumed . To infer why , you first have to understand the write up of Hanukkah . As with most Jewish vacation , in the beginning there was a lot of suffering . ( This reminds me a funny Jewish jocularity . The refrain during each vacation goes like this : " We suffered , we meet , we suffer , now let ’s deplete ! " ) This time , it was at the paw of Antiochus IV ( 215 BC – 164 BC ) , who massacred Jews left and good during his reign , refused to let them practise their faith and sacked their temples . He also forced them to assimilate to the Hellenistic way of the times . But a dude named Judah Maccabee , the loss leader of a spiritual diehard group , deny to assimilate and fight against the Syrian - Greeks to take back the holy temple in Jerusalem . In 165 BC , Maccabee and his group did just that . But when they vex to the eternal flame ( the crude oil lamp that burn 24/7/365 in every temple ) they found that there was only enough oil to keep the fire going for one more dark . But it take them eight night to refill the oil and the flame , miraculously , burned until military reserve were brought in .
So the Irish potato pancake are fried in crude , which is a monitor of this miracle . In other commonwealth , fried donuts are more pop . But in the States , it ’s definitely latkes . If you ’ve never corrode a white potato hotcake , you do n’t know what you ’re missing ! They are delicious when overbold , with a dollop of sour cream or apple sauce on top . After the jump , you ’ll find my personal recipe for the secure tater pancakes in the humanity … Happy Hanukkah to all .
