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My family's traditional Passover flourless chocolate cake (updated with some suggestions from Godiva, like the raspberry coulis):

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This was sent me by my aunt Redwing, whose rabbi, Margaret Holub, wrote it - this is just a brief excerpt:

"But I believe, deeply and truly, in yetziat mitzrayim, in exodus from the
narrow, choked-off places represented by the country of slavery.
"Mitzrayim," Egypt, is one of the bible's most brilliant proper names. It
means "narrowness." I believe that we can be liberated from those tight,
narrow spots, or at least that I can. I believe in crying out to the
goodness of the universe -- to God, if you like -- from my place of
enslavement for what I most truly need. If that is loving service, then
please, I am asking."