Yesterday at school Sydney's class went on their long awaited first field trip of the year to the Matzah Factory! The Matzah Factory is set up once a year, around Passover, by the Chabad Lubavitch and children are invited to come and learn to make their very own Matzah.
What a fun time we had! We all got special hats and aprons to wear:
Then each of us got a stalk of wheat and learned how to get the grains out and blow away the chaff.
Then each of the children got a chance to grind the grains in a flour mill and watch them turn into flour. Sydney especially loved this part!
Then the race was on, with the help of the master baker we had exactly 18 minutes to mix the flour and water together and roll out the dough, poke holes in it and bake it in the oven before any leavening took place.
We also had to scrub down the rolling pins to make sure that all the dough was off in the same time period, the kids worked fast and furiously!
The matzah is baked for a mere sixty seconds in an 800 degree oven.
It was such a special treat to take the matzah that the kids had made back to school for a snack.
What a great time! The kids loved it and it was such a fun and memorable first field trip away together!
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