- Hey guys, welcome to Vlog Hanukkah Day Five.
I'm currently in my sister's room in our parent's house.
Because we have all of the family staying
and I have been kicked out of my room so me
and my sister are sharing, this is adulthood, guys.
This is adulthood, when this video goes up,
tonight will be the sixth night of Hanukkah
and I will be back in London but right now,
I'm in Manchester with the family.
It is Christmas Eve and tonight is the first
night of Hanukkah, we've got the whole family here.
So we've got my dad's mom and also my mom's parents
who are the Jewish side so they're here for Christmas
but they're also here for Hanukkah.
So tonight we're gonna be having Latkes for dinner
and we're going to be making some homemade Latkes.
And I will film a bit of that later
but I've already made a video making Latkes,
which is a old, old video from about two
or three years ago, absolute throwback
but I will link that into the description
if you wanna see like foetus Hannah making YouTube videos.
My voice is really high pitched.
I don't know what that's about, ageing, man, ageing.
So we're making dinner a bit later but first,
I thought I would explain to you how to play Dreidel.
What is Dreidel, so you may have heard of Dreidel before.
Mostly because of the song.
♫ I have a little Dreidel
♫ Made out of clay
You know.
♫ Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
You know, but I thought I would explain how you play
dreidel and also what the Hebrew on the dreidel means.
So first of all dreidel is a game that you play
and a dreidel is the spinning top thing
and you spin it and whatever it lands on
is a certain action that you have to take in the game.
We are a Jewish family which means over the years,
we have collected many dreidels.
If you are also Jewish, maybe you can relate
to the bag full of dreidels that you own
that come out once a year.
So here are the Hebrew letters that appear on the dreidel.
Nun, Gimel, Hey, and Shin.
Nun, Gimel, Hey and Shin stand for Nes gadol hayah sham,
which in Hebrew means Great Miracle Happened There.
There meaning Jerusalem, the great miracle that happened
is the miracle of Hanukkah where the oil lasted
for eight days and eight nights.
We've covered this already in Vlog Hanukkah Day One.
So everyone probably has different things that they use
to play dreidel but in my family, we have
chocolate coins of Hanukkah Guilds.
The way it works is you have a stash of Hanukkah Guild
and you dish it up between everyone.
So everyone has an even pile to begin with.
And the aim of the game is for you to win all of them
and everyone else to lose.
Everyone takes turns to spin the dreidel.
After every turn, everyone puts one extra coin in the pile.
Not everyone does this but in my family we do it,
otherwise, the pile just depletes really quickly
and we like the stakes to be high.
If you roll a Nun, nothing happens,
just pass it onto the next person, quite boring.
If you roll a Hey, that means you get to take
half of the pile in the middle.
If you roll a Gimel, you get to take all of the pile
in the middle, Gimel is great, everyone loves Gimel.
And if you roll a Shin, it means you have to put one in.
You have to put one from your personal pile into the
middle pile, that's probably the worst one you could get.
Devastating, devastating and so you just keep going around
and taking turns until somebody wins all of the stash.
But then in my family what we do is we dish out
the chocolate coins again evenly so all the kids have got
an equal amount to eat otherwise there would be uproar.
One of my favourite things about Dreidel is
finding the perfect spinner.
Every dreidel will spin differently and it's an art
finding the perfect one, this one is a really old one
that my mom has had for years and years.
And it's everybody's favourite and we all fight over it.
So that is how you play Dreidel.
It's actually a really simple game.
Now I'm gonna go hang out with my family,
make Latkes, eat dinner, do the candles for
the first night of Hanukkah and probably play some Dreidel.
It is Latke making time, this is my sister.
This is my mom and over there is my grandmother.
- Hello. - Yay!
- Leah has already peeled all of these potatoes.
And they are there and we're gettin' ready to fry them.
But first don't we have to. - Grate them.
- Grate them with onions. - Oh yeah.
- There's a lot to be done before frying them.
- Oh yeah, I know. - We may as well fry 'em.
- Let's go, let's go, we're cheating because
our processor thingy has a grating setting.
(loud whirring)
Nice, is this heatin' up the oil to be ready?
- Yes, it takes ages. - Because oil
is part of the Hanukkah story.
- I've got onions that need to go too.
Grated potato, look like cheese.
Now we've got to squeeze all the moisture out the potatoes.
- [Mom] Perfect Latke has got the best squeezed.
- Make me cry. - Oh, onions.
Oh, oh. (laughing)
- That's not good enough.
- The book says squeeze, add egg and flour and then pulp.
Mom's like no, let's pulp now.
- [Mom] Well, because it's not squeezed enough
so we're gonna pulp, squeeze and then do it.
- [Grandma] The old people say it's not squeezed enough.
- We're back for round two of squeezing.
- What a sound. - Let's play the game.
What does this sound like? - I was gonna say somethin'
else. (laughing)
What does this? (water plopping)
(laughing)
- It sounds like diarrhoea. (laughing)
(yelling)
- Open you hand. - Put a bit more if you want.
(laughing)
- Wait, I wanna try, oh no.
(laughing)
Flour time, eight of these, I
don't know if we have like enough.
- [Mom] That's like a tablespoon.
- Always great to have your mom in the kitchen with you.
- We're just cleaning up behind them, it's okay.
(upbeat music)
Still clearing up. (upbeat music)
- I'm washing up.
- So the Lakte mixture was too wet and so they're like
put more flour in it and then I put more flour in it.
Then mom shouted at me for putting too much flour in it.
So you can't it. - You took it in.
- [Hannah] First one.
You guys tell me about. (yelling)
- Oh no, Hanukkah. - Battle wound.
- [Leah] The stress of the Latkes, is is getting to you?
- It's just with Mom and Moody, just constantly
commentating on what we're doing.
- I think it's fantastic, I think the flour
incident is been and gone and they are marvellous.
- [Leah] I'll admit the scary part of it is
making Latkes with your family.
- So fun! (laughing)
Maybe I was in the wrong with the flour thing.
They are definitely fatter than they should be.
I mean, they're good. - It's potato.
- It's potato, can't go wrong.
Perfect. (chattering)
- [Mom] They have with apple sauce as a sweet thing.
(all singing Hanukkah song in Hebrew)
Here we go, first night.
(all singing Hebrew song together)
- Oh mom, clean your camera.
- I think it's got some of these.
- Can we do Seven Lights Looks In The Kitchen?
- [Grandma] Oh, I know that one.
(all singing in Hebrew)
(laughing) (chattering)
- I've had a knee replacement, I can't do that.
- Alright guys, thanks for watching.
That's the first night of Hanukkah at my house
and it's also Christmas Eve so this means that
me and my sister and all of our friends from
our school days are all going out for drinks.
That's what's happening, isn't that right, Leah?
Where's she gone, drinks? - Drinks.
- Christmas Eve drinks. - Oh, like every year.
- Every year tradition, please give this video
a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and I know this video
is coming out after Christmas so let me know
how your Christmas went, what did you get for Christmas
or Hanukkah or whatever, oh, the phone is ringing.
This is what happens when you are with an adult
house, there's a house phone.
- But we ignore it. - But we ignore it.
But we ignore the house phone, Happy Hanukkah,
Merry Christmas, I'll see you tomorrow, bye.
(techno music)