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LET'S PLAY DREIDEL
One of the most popular games during Chanukah is playing the Dreidel game, a
blended. form of an old German gambling game. Its name derives from the German word for
' top'.
The prizes are simple during Chanukah, with players usually betting with chocolates
(gelts), pennies or nuts.
The top has four sides, each marked with a Hebrew letter: Nun, Shin,
Gimel, Hay. The letters also stand for the words Nes Gadol Haya Sham or A Great Miracle
Hap pened There! (or here)
When you spin and land on these letters:
Nun - you don't get anything at all
 Shin- you must put an item in the pot
 Gimel - you're a winner, take the whole pot!
 Hay - scoop up half of the
items from the pot
| HOLIDAY RECIPE
Golden Coin Cookies
- 1 -1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 /2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- corn syrup
- Gold edible glitter or yellow
- sugar crystals
- 6" to 8" squares of purple tulle
- thin gold ribbon
INSTRUCTIONS:
In large bowl, with electric mixer on high, beat butter and sugar until light and
fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla, lemon peel, and salt on low. Gradually beat in flour until well
blended.
Divide the dough in half. Form into 2 flattened disks, wrap in plastic
and refrigerate until firm, about half hour.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets. Working
with one disk of dough at a time, roll out to 11.8" thickness between two sheets of waxed paper. Using 1" to 1- 114" round cooking
cutter, cut out circles, rerolling scraps.
Place the circles one inch apart on baking sheets. Bake 6 to 8 minutes until lightly golden. Transfer
to wire racks. Make sure the cookies have cooled completely before
decorating them.
To decorate, brush tops of cookies with corn syrup, immediately
press into gold glitter.
Put 3 cookies in center of each tulle square. Gather the edges
and tie with a gold ribbon bow.
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