🇩🇰 Growing up in the small Jewish community of Denmark in the 1940s, Margit Sheftelowitz remembers that Christmas Eve was a special time in the city of Copenhagen. “The whole city of Copenhagen was in a special atmosphere,” she explains. While families were celebrating Christmas Eve, Margit’s mother arranged a special meal for their Jewish family as well. She served chicken soup with lokshen noodles and duck with potatoes and cabbage. There were special treats like petite doughnuts called aebleskiver. Borrowing from a Christmas tradition, she also made risalamande, a rice pudding with an almond tucked into it — the person who found it was given a special gift. When Margit moved to Israel in 1961, she started to host Hanukkah parties for her family and kept two of the Christmas traditions from Copenhagen: risalamande and aebleskiver. Almost 60 years later, she still hosts using a particular skillet she received from her mother. The entire family, including her son urisheft, owner o...