Passing The
White-Glove Test

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#2) Make cleaning a family
project. Spend an hour every
evening working together on
one room until it is complete.
Reward yourselves with a
treat (dinner out, a
movie, let the chil-
dren stay up late, give
everyone $5 to spend
at the mall) once
you have fin-
ished. Play
music while
you work.
Now doesn't
this sound fun?
Well, maybe.

#3) As a general
rule, it's a good idea
#1) Keep a notebook handy so
to centralize your junk. If a
you can write down everything
certain room is simply inde-
to be done. Go room by room.
scribably disorganized, bring
You may want to photocopy
in a table where you can place
and use the checklist below, or
everything. Otherwise, try
make your own. Be sure to
dumping all the loose ends on
check off when you're all
the dining-room table. What a
done; there's nothing like
magnificent mountain of
marking a project complete to
coats, mail, children's school
inspire you to move on to the
projects, old newspa-
next thrilling one.
pers and magazines,
lists of thank-you
ROOM:
's notes you should
Chore:
have written months
I ago, forms to be filed,
Supplies needed:
'k half-eaten cookies,
To be done by:
broken toys and
mud-covered gloves
Complete:
I younave
'll h !
0 Wash windows
The
good thing
0 Cabinets
0 Scrubbing
about tossing it all
0 Closets
0 Toy boxes
')
into
a single pile is
0 Drawers
0 Polishing
that:
0 Vacuum
0 Laundry
3A.) You'll be
0 Mop floor
is able to collect and
0 Dusting
put everything

Editor's Note: Be sure to make certain ingredients you buy
are marked "Kosher for Passover:"

away in one go. For example,
you can take all your child's
books to her room in a single
trip, instead of making 125
separate stops.
3B.) You'll see how much
stuff you really have and it
will convince you to make
quick decisions about
what to do with it.
Three key ques-
tions: a) Do
I keep it? b)
Do I throw
it away? c.) Do
I donate it to
charity? If
you're wavering at
all on the first question,
the answer is one of the
other two.

#4) Clean a little every day
instead of waiting for an im-
possible mess to pile up. You
can spend five painless min-
utes each evening wiping off
the bathroom counters, or you
can wait until so much gunk
(spilled toothpaste, soap,
shampoo, cosmetics, after
shave) has landed that it takes
you six hours just to scrub
through the first layer.

#5) Start preparing for next
year. If you've been meaning
to establish the rule of "no
food outside the kitchen," do
it now
Or perhaps you'll allow
snacks in the den, too. But
there's no reason your entire
home has to be open to every-
one's eating whims.

Snappy
Snacks

1 cup cold water
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar
2 cups matzah meal
5 eggs

Place water, oil; salt
in pot and bring to a sic),
boil.SloWly add '—
and stir. Remove frOtrf
and cool.
Beatone egg at a time
mixture. Refrigerate for 15,
minutes. Grease pan and
hands. Make patties-fOrro
for bagels, wet finger and
press in center. Bake at 400
degrees for 40 minutes.
From Lorry Cooper of
Southfield

'Pasty Cubes

2 cans grape juice
1/2 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. lemon juice

Pour juice into a gallon pitch-
et Add 2 cans cold water, ,-
Sugar and lemon juice. St*,
Pour into ice-cube trays I
let freeze; It will be readyln
about.two hours.
From Michelle Peake of
Armada, Mich.

blender or food processor until
smooth. Serve immediately.
From Passover Lite: Kosher
Cookbook by Gail Ashkanazi-
Hanldrz, copyright 1996,
used by permission of the
publisher; Pelican Publishing
Ca, Inc.

ocolate-Covere
Matuh

12 oz. bag chocolate chips
I Tbap. butter or margarine
4 pieces matzah

Mtlt chocolate and butter in
4ouble_b011er-14eak matzah
into small piece's and stir into
choColate. Place waxed paper
on a cookie sheet Pour mix-
ture on waxed paper and
cover with another piece of
waxed paper. Flatten with a
rolling pin. Refrigerate until
hardBreak into small pieces.
Fmm Audra Lachman of
Farmington Hills, 9, who
'loves to help out in the
kitchen."

Passover Apple Cake
FILLING:

3 lbs. apples, peeled and sliced
juice of one lemon
3/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. cinnamon

Mango Smoothie

BATTER

1-ripe mango, peeled and cut
away from it
1. cup skim mill(
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 'I'bsp. lime juice
1 pitted date or 1/2 Tbsp.
honey
1/4 cup ice

6 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
2 cups matzah cake meal
2 Tbsp. potato starch
1 tsp. vanilla

TOPPING:

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Puree all ingredients in

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ust about everybody
dreads the dusting and
mopping and polishing
that accompanies this
festival.
But whether you're the type
who regards hanging up the
shirt you wore six days ago as a
"thorough cleaning," or the
kind who scrubs with a tooth-
brush under the bed, don't for-
get that the purpose of all this
work is to get rid of your
chametz, or leavened food.
Dust has nothing to do with it.
Here are some tips that may
help make your cleaning experi-
ence just a little more tolerable:

Food, Glorious Food

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