The Seder Plate has five foods that have special meaning to them:
- Charoset - A mixture of chopped walnuts, wine, cinnamon and
apples representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves.
- Parsley (dipped in salt water) - Symbol of Spring and new life
and tears of the Jewish slaves.
- Roasted egg - Symbol of fertility and Spring.
- Shank Bone - Symbol of the sacrificial lamb offered in the Holy
temple at Jerusalem. The bone used can be from anything cooked such
as the leg bone of a roasted turkey. Vegetarian Jews use beetroot
instead of a bone.
- Bitter herbs - Freshly grated horseradish symbolizes the
bitterness and harshness of slavery.
