It’s both sad and funny that every recipe I find for homemade matzah online ends with a note to remind readers that homemade matzah is not kosher for passover.
Couldn't you buy the special shmurah flour etc
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I live in Australia where there are kits for the remote but I don’t think they are kosher in creating but the flour is kosher!
As in, kits to make your own kfp matzah at home? Isn't 'kosher in creating' a matter of just doing the wholething fast enough? The one time I heard someone talk about making her own, it seemed really hard, and shmurah flower is ungodly expensive, I'm surprised that they wouldn't just distribute already-made matzah
Ohhh boy I could go on about different kosher certifications and how it works in a country the size of a continent with imports from both east and west haha. There is broadly an already made matzah from my state that is certified everywhere except the largest state and is kosher in most of everywhere except for a haredi rabbi association in NSW. I don’t know if the already made stuff gets shipped to the outback but I know the kits do
I wish. Shmurah flour isn't commercially available. Or if it is, it's either very hard to come by or too expensive to make the endeavour worth it. Makes me sad that the average Jew can't make matzah in their own homes to feel a deeper connection to one of the three biggest Jewish holidays.
Another reason why I'd rather not buy shmurah flour is because most of it comes out of Israel or is operated by companies that financially support them.
One could hypothetically buy unprocessed wheat from a farmer, thresh, winnow, and grind it themselves, and then it'd be kfp, wouldn't it?
I've also heard grumblings that a lot of these stringencies are modern innovations, and poor Jews in the shteitl didn't have access to shmurah flour or two sets of cookware for milchig and fleischig
You could buy it directly from a farmer, but it's still questionable whether or not it's officially "Kosher for Passover" since the process for making flour typically requires a Rabbi to supervise everything (there's also rules about how it needs to be handled like when to prevent it from getting in contact with water).
And yeah, a lot of what we know of Passover is fairly recent. It's its own commercial industry.
My understanding is that a rabbi can verify that food is kosher, but like, doesn't actually need to supervise it to make it kosher—hence, fresh fruits and vegetables not needing a mashgiach.
True, yeah. Might only be a problem if you’re supplying your own shmurah flour to a group rather than just use it yourself. At any rate, a lot of people still don’t have connections to farmers or access and knowledge to the process of converting wheat to flour. It’s still a barrier.