Margaret Suran wrote:
> Potato Kugel is traditionally made for Passover, a holiday during
> which you are not allowed certain foods, including anything made with
> regular flour and therefore Jews use Matzo Meal. At all other times,
> you may use flour, during Passover you have to use Matzo Meal. Also,
> you cannot use Baking Powder or Baking Soda or Yeast or any kind of
> leavening during Passover and whenever you make the Kugel as a side
> dish for meat, if you are an observing Jew, you cannot use Butter to
> make it. At no time, not just during Passover.

I've seen a recipe, I think it was in Jennie Grossinger's "Art of
Jewish Cooking," that specified potato starch. I forget if it also
included flour or matzo meal. I dont think it was specifically a Pesach
recipe, so either or none is possible. The first time I made a potato
kugel I went crazy looking for potato starch.

-bwg