Finding a good recipe for matzo balls is easy. Use whatever recipe is printed on the box of matzo meal. If that seems too prosaic, then by all means search the Internet or crack open a Jewish holiday cookbook. The recipe you find will be like the one printed on the box of matzo meal, with perhaps chopped parsley added for culinary bling.
Making matzo balls that are good? How the Gehenna would I know?
My grandmother's balls were so compact and tough that a serrated knife could hardly hack through them. Were her matzo balls good? Decades passed before I encountered firm yet light matzo balls. Being able to use the side of a soup to slice through them easily was certainly a pleasant relief, but were they good?
When it comes to matzo balls, good is a relative concept and I mean that quite literally. No one raised Jewish would even think to ask anyone other than the family matriarch for a recipe. The word "good" would remain silent as the box of matzo meal was handed over.
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