Coffee with matzo

The search for the afikoman and the wait for Elijah the Prophet are dwarfed by the great expectations held for the post-Seder breakfast. When it comes to Maceszos Kávé, matzo in coffee, all the troubles they create are forgotten – the crumbs they leave behind, the constipation they cause, even the deafening crunch they make when you bite into them, all are forgiven. Did we manage to get over the horrors of the Pharaoh? We’ll get past this, too. 

The idea is simple: hard matzos are softened in a cup of sweet boiling hot coffee and eaten with a spoon, sort of a take on kosher-for-Passover breakfast cereal. Coffee with matzo has been drunk by Hungarian Jews for generations, and is the traditional Passover holiday breakfast handed down almost like the Passover story Haggadah. 

Ingredients: (1 serving)

• 1 ½ matzos
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• Sugar to taste

Break the matzo into about 3-cm. squares and fill a mug with them. 

Prepare the coffee: boil milk and dissolve instant coffee and sugar in it.

Pour the hot coffee into the mug of matzo; let stand for a minute or two until the matzo soaks up some coffee and softens.