 Dishes cooked with pomegranate juice are common during this period.The holiday of Hanukkah is marked by the consumption of traditional Hanukkah foods fried in oil in commemoration of the miracle in which a small quantity of oil sufficient for one day lasted eight days.The two most popular Hannukah foods are potato pancakes, "levivot", also known by the Yiddish "latkes"; and jelly doughnuts, known as "sufganiyot" in Hebrew, "pontshkes" (in Yiddish) or "bimuelos" (in Ladino), as these are deep-fried in oil.