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    Chorosis is traditional for Passover, which is a springtime holiday.
    You can make chorosis with whatever measurements you want - it is
    like making salad in that you use whatever amounts of ingredients
    you want and make it to your taste.  The main ingredients are:
    
    Apples, chopped
    Walnuts, chopped
    Honey
    Kosher for Passover sweet red wine
    (Cinnamon, if you want)
    
    No matter how you blend these ingredients, you will have the "real
    thing" and it will taste delicious.  Believe me, the amounts are
    not so important.  At a very young age, like 7 or so, I was the
    chorosis preparer for the Passover Seder.  There was no recipe,
    and the "cook" got lots of compliments.  ;-)
    
    Chorosis is traditionally eaten with matzo, the dry flat unleavened
    bread that is traditional for Passover.  At some points in the ceremony
    it is eaten with prepared horseradish, also.  The horseradish
    symbolizes the bitterness the Jewish people suffered as slaves in
    Egypt.  However, the symbolism was lost on me, since I enjoy
    horseradish so much I will eat the prepared stuff straight from
    the jar! (Golds, in little jars, in the dairy section of the
    grocery store usually.)
    
    --Louise

    
    One of the variations (out of so many...) to .-1 is to add a
    banana.Another is to add 1 teaspoon honey  and grated rind of 1/2
    lemon.Anyway we do it,it does not last for more than few seconds before
    the "battle for the charoset plates" starts...
    r/

    In my family ... charoses was a dish served only as part of the
    passover sedar, not as a dish that you would serve during Chanukah. 
    It is a dish very specific for Passover; in the same way that you would
    not have chocolate easter eggs for Christmas.

    That is quite true.  It has religious symbolism for Passover.
    Chanukah is a much less important holiday than Passover or,
    for that matter, the High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
    Making a big deal about Chanukah is sort-of like staying home
    from work for Arbor Day....
    
    --Louise

    Well I guess that depends on the generation you are experiancing...I'm
    sure that when it comes to importance there are MANY youngsters who
    would disagree with you and tell you how boring all of the holidays are
    except for chanukah...To this day I still rate Chanukah up at the top
    of the list...but I'm expressing a personal opinion...Religiously you
    are absolutely correct !...I still get the fidgets when I think of
    having to sit thru those lengthy passages at passover...I used to get
    told to slow down constantly...

    Actually, I am beginning to agree with you.  What are traditions
    if they don't change with society?  And the Chanukah traditions
    that are developing are certainly fun.
    
    ;-)
    
    Louise