Monkey bread only in butter. "Monkey bread" soon became the more common name for this Hungarian Jewish dessert. Recipes for the bread first appeared in American women's magazines and community cookbooks in the 1950s, but the dish is still virtually unknown outside the United States. The bread is made with pieces of sweet yeast dough (often frozen), which are baked in a cake pan at high heat after first being individually covered in melted butter, cinnamon, sugar, and chopped pecans. It is traditionally served hot so that the baked segments can be easily torn away with the fingers and eaten by hand.
Passover is eaten, for which reason Passover is called the feast of unleavened bread in the Torah. Thus "matzo" (flat unleavened bread) is eaten during Passover and it is a tradition of the holiday. Historically, together with Shavuot and Sukkot, Passover is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals ("Shalosh Regalim") during which the entire population of the kingdom of Judah made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Samaritans still make this pilgrimage to Mount Gerizim, but only men participate in public worship. The Passover begins on the 15th day of the month of Nisan, which typically falls in March or