Potatoes to Passover: Miriam Shares Her Family's Potato Starch Tradition

Watch Miriam make four cookie sheets worth of potato starch out of TWO BIG BOXES of Idaho potatoes!

This is one of the thousands of traditions various Hasidic families might have around the Passover holiday.

It is part of a tradition to be extra cautious with Passover food, to make sure it's not been contaminated by leavened bread, which is prohibited for eight days. So a lot of people won't "mish", which means they won't "mix" by eating food prepared by others. Essentially, it means a lot of people will buy unprocessed ingredients and make it themselves. So they buy unwashed vegetables, they make their own fat out of chickens, they shell their own nuts, and they make their own kosher-for-passover flour out of potatoes. Here we see Miriam's family make potato flour and how it's done.