matzo ball

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1. A ball of unleavened dough, often served in soup in Jewish culture.

   Food was prepared with a far defter hand; I had matzo ball soup and boiled beef with horseradish, which sounds terrible but was excellent; Eliza ordered cholent, a thick bean stew, topped with a slice of meat loaf — our Jewish-mom-like server basically forced her.

   2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times