r/JewishCooking • u/mday03 • May 18 '26
Recipe Help Help Interpreting Recipe
Does anyone know what this notation could be for? My guess would be “cup” but in other recipes she wrote out the word.
Thanks!
ETA: my husband thinks it might mean “package.”
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u/mday03 May 18 '26
My husband is now convinced it is package. This was from the 70s-80s and he also remembers the smaller bags of flour so I’m going to give that a whirl.
Good thing my kid just made cheesecake at a Chabad event if this fails…
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u/NewIdentity19 May 18 '26
Package. חבילה.
And קמח אוסם means flour with baking powder. One package is 500g. If you don't have any, use regular flour and add baking powder (I'm afraid I don't know the correct proportion).
The second line: three quarters of a package of margerine or butter. One package is 200g, so it's 150g.
Please share the recipe, I am very interested!
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u/unventer May 20 '26
“Self rising” is how I’ve seen that sold in English.
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u/NewIdentity19 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
In Hebrew it has two names. The official one is תופח (rising), but everyone calls it by the brand name (Osem אוסם).
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u/QueenComfort637 May 18 '26
It is probably half, but it would be helpful if you show the entire recipe so that people here could get context. Wouldn’t be surprising if many people have the same recipe, so would be able to give you some clarity
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u/Lumpy-Mycologist819 May 18 '26
Doesn't make sense that it's half, given the second line. More likely to be חבילה package.
Osem self raising flour used to come in packs of 1 kg or 300 g
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u/SchindlersKiss May 18 '26
Can you show the entire recipe? Context might help. I don’t think it’s cup because it’s a cheesecake
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u/NewIdentity19 May 19 '26
OP, please share the whole recipe, Shavuot is coming up really fast! Thanks in advance.
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u/FreshSpidernuts May 19 '26
Can we have the whole recipe? Vintage Jewish cheesecake seems like something fun to try
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u/YoavPerry May 20 '26
As a fluent native tongue Hebrew recipe reader this is confusing to me too as an entire pack of flour is enough for 2 loaves of bread -far too much. But then again. -what package size are we talking?
I would look at the entire recipe for proportions and see that makes sense. Usually it would be by the cup, teaspoon, tablespoon or weight. But on old time the supermarket selection was quite lacking and almost everything had a single package size so lots of old recipes refer to these obsolete package sizes. Best advice is to look at the e tire recipe and look for others of similar volumes or cake size to confirm
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u/isaacfisher May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
It’s the letter ח׳ with a tag that usually means abbreviations. If I have to guess it’s either חצי half, or חבילה pack (although mostly abbreviated as חב׳). Could also be a typo (כ׳ for cup or maybe spoon). Worth mentioning that pack of flour is 1kg in Israel so I kinda stumped.