SC - OT: Tee-Totalers

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At 12:53 AM -0400 7/14/98, geneviamoas at juno.com wrote:
>Just a tid bit of info I picked up somewhere... Shrove Tuesday was the
>last day you could have fats before the lenten Fasting began so they
>tried to use it all up. So what do you do with oils and fats you can't
>use? Grease the pig? Just rambling now  - Genevia
>
The Lenten restriction wasn't "no fats", it was "no meat (other than fish),
no milk products, and no eggs".  So you could use plant-derived oils and
fats from fish, and you would not have animal fats on your hands since you
would not be slaughtering the animals.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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