SC - Re: Jewish food in period-some comments

[jeffrey stewart heilveil]

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:

> Let me comment on parts of this letter:

> Not so.  Mundanely, I have cooked extensivly using motzoh meal (pulverized
> matzoh) in place of regular bread crumbs.  In every case, the motzoh meal dish
> came out heavier tasting than the bread crumb version.  I believe it has to do
> with the levening used in regular bread crumbs, vs matzoh/matzoh meal, which
> would be made without levening. Levening puts air/volume into a food item &
> helps make it lighter, not so dense.

and not so BITTER!!!  That's part of my problem with matzah, it makes
everything bitter...

I know if it is kosher too, but originally they were asking 2 questions,
whether subbing matzah was period (we do it now but who knows...), and
what are period foods.  

HTH
Bogdan

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