Sufganiot (was - Re: Cloaks and how to make them?)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "meira_q" <mb2910 at h...> wrote:

> Another reason why many jews are sick during Hannuka is because of 
> the Latkes, which clog your arteries like crazy :-P
> Me, I don't like latkes too much. Too greasy.

The PURPOSE of both latkes and sufganiot is to be greasy (altho' my 
friend makes low-fat latkes on a teflon skillet), to be fried in oil 
in memory of the miraculous oil for the lamps
> 
> Here, bakeries start selling sufganiot about a month before it is 
> actually Hannuka, they do the same with Matzos and with Oznei 
> Haman, which are triangular-shaped cookies filled with poppy seeds
> (is that how it's called?) and are eaten in Purim.

Triangular shaped cookies filled with poppy seeds ("mohn" IIRC) or 
prune mush or raspberry mush ... or very often apricot mush here, my 
favorite ... are called Hamantashen, which means Haman's purse, and 
are eaten for Purim ... altho' I'm inclined to believe what I read, 
that when the Bible criticizing people for making "cakes in the shape 
of the Queen of Heaven", they weren't making gingerbread women, they 
were making what later came to be known as Hamantashen, and "her 
shape" represents the female reproductive organs (suitable to a 
fertility goddess). It fits: her name is Ishtar (like Esther), the 
king of the gods in her Babylon is Marduk (like Mordecai), and the 
Babylonians had a holiday named Purulli that I don't know anything 
else about.

I thought Oznei Haman ("Haman's ears", yes?) were those lovely 
cookies/pastries called "elephant ears" or "palm leaves" or 
"butterflies" ... 
> 
> 
> (would still like to know any helpful info any of you might have 
> about cloaks and how to make'em :))

I once made a cloak from a McCall's pattern. It was a three-quarter 
circle of fabric 1.5 yard in diameter (I'm 5'2") with a smaller hot 
cut out of the middle and a hood sewed to that small hole, also the 
pattern called for shoulder darts, but I skipped them. I also skipped 
the lining. I hate sewing and haven't made any costumes for decades.

I looked for some robe costume patterns and posted them in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/12231

Also someone announced the founding of an HP Costume List: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MadameMalkins/