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The tale of the matzah ball soup face-off
yields only one clear favorite.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
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ow sit right down and I'll
tell you a tale, a tale of a
fateful trip, that started
from this newsy fort as we
suffered from post-nasal drip.
In the soup was a mighty
matzah ball, the broth barely
clear, we started on this taste test
for kosher keepers, dear, for
kosher keepers, dear.
Thank God we finished — it
was getting rough, the remnants
then were tossed, if not for the
courage of our fearless crew, the
results would be lost, the results
would be lost.
OK, I can't go any further with
this. The part about the million-
aire and his wife will just have to
wait.
Like many other members of
the human race facing Decem-
ber in less than temperate cli-
mates, I am having all of my
energy sapped by a cold. Trans-
ferred to me by my 1-year-old son
who spends his day picking up
germs in a day-care center, the
cold is, I am sure, just the first of
the season.
Like others, I will seek some
comfort by ingesting large doses
of coma-inducing cold medicine,
by immersing my aching body in
warm to hot baths and by drink-
ing as many fluids as possible.
Most of those fluids will be in the
form of hot soup.
To make all of your lives eas-
ier, we at The Jewish News have
decided to take the guess work
out of which matzah ball soup kit
to buy from the handful that line
the shelves in the grocery store
kosher aisle.
To do so, we prepared and
taste-tested the frozen offering
from Tabatchnick, the powdered
formula from Croyden House
and the Manischewitz canned va-
riety. Because the Tabatchnick
offering contained a total of two
matzah balls in each package, we
added matzah balls made from
Streit's mix.
The Tabatchnick Chicken
Broth with Noodles and
Dumplings, a fleishig meal, had
70 calories per half package
serving along with 2 grams of
saturated fat, 13 grams of car-
bohydrates, 20 milligrams of
cholesterol and a whopping 830
milligrams of sodium. Tabatch-
nick frozen soup, found at
Farmer Jack, costs $1.69 per
two-serving box.
Croyden House Matzo Ball
and Soup Mix had 40 calories, a
half a gram of fat, no cholesterol,
9 grams of carbohydrates and an
astounding 1,040 milligrams of by staffer Jennifer Finer. As the
sodium per one-cup serving. It silky liquid satisfied my taste
costs $1.89 per nine-serving pack- buds and slid down my sore
age.
throat, the matzah balls dis-
Manischewitz's Condensed solved in my mouth and filled my
Clear Chicken Soup with Three tummy (I think that is the tech-
Matzo Balls (count 'em, three) nical term anyway). I could feel
contained 80 calories per half cup my cold symptoms disappear
serving along with 4 grams of fat, faster than if I had taken a large
25 milligrams of cholesterol, 880 dose of medications. This was the
milligrams of sodium and 9 only one that completely disap-
grams of carbohydrates. It was peared from the bowl.
$1.39 per two-serving package
t
and was found at Lakewood Gro-
cery Store.
The Streit's mix, distributed
in New York and made in the
United States, did not carry
a nutrition facts chart any-
where on its package. It was
found in the kosher aisle at
Farmer Jack and cost $1.89 Chicken
Broth
per package.
.
The Rating:
with Noodles
& Dumplings
4JAN WCH
ARMS,.
WEIL 'AWE 11
First of all, packaged chicken
soup mixes are not health
food. While these were all rel-
atively low in fat, the sodium
levels leave something to be
The staff; by and large, agreed.
desired. A full cup of our favorite,
Croyden House brand, contains Tabatchnick Chicken
almost half the recommended Broth with Noodles and
sodium for an entire day; the Dumplings
same amount of the Manische-
witz equals two-thirds the daily "Lacks character. Matzah balls
limit.
are too mealy, too."
The preparation of the soups
— Julie Edgar
was simple. Even with my ap-
parent culinary skill handicap "Noodles are yummy, but the
(my faithful husband refuses to matzah balls taste very unnat-
allow me entrance to the ural. You can definitely tell
kitchen), I was able to follow the they're frozen. Carrots are a nice
two-step directions for the Man- homey touch."
— Lynne Konstantin
ischewitz and the slightly more
involved instructions for Tabatch-
`The broth is a bit salty and the
nick.
noodles
are bland. Na, forks
That aside, the tastes of the
soup varied greatly. The Man- down."
— Debbie Schultz
ischewitz had a light chicken fla-
vor with manageable sized
matzah balls which, while lack-
ing in taste, more than made up
for the shortcoming in texture.
The Tabatchnick matzah balls Croyden House Matzo Ball
were almost hard, and the broth and Soup Mix
had a slightly manufactured
taste to it. The Streit's
`The seasoning in
401"4.0:,
matzah balls, made by Se-
the broth is really
MATZO
nior Writer Julie Edgar, were
good. Very tasty.
BALL
the worst things I have ever
The matzah balls
eaten; if I wasn't in polite
SOUP MIX
are fabulous, good
company, I most assuredly
texture. This one
would have spit them out on
far exceeds the
site and scraped the taste
others."
from my tongue.
— Debbie
The clear winner for me
Schultz
was the sky-high sodium of-
fering, Croyden House, made
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