SC - Re: seder menu.

[Sharon R. Saroff]

Actually the Ashkanazic limitations are fairly recent are called fences.
Basically it is to make sure that one won't accidentilly create hamatz by
mixing anything remotely resembling grain with water.  I am not sure about
the all the information with the injunction against legumes because some of
that is real recent.  I grew up with my mother using peanut oil on Passover
and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (A big rabbi who died about 12 years ago)
discussed why you couldn't eat peanuts but could use the oil.  If people
are interested, I will ask my rabbi when I see him on Wednesday and post
the answer on Friday after the holiday is over.

Sindara

At 09:15 AM 4/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Salut!
>The seder menu looked fabulous, and I wish I was there.  I had a few
>comments though...
>
>Unless you are sephardic (spanish/morrocan Jews) legumes are plum out,
>which would make the chick pea dish traif (I think garbanos are legumes).
>
>Gefilte fish is traditionally made with carp, not pike and whitefsh.  Pike
>and whitefish is a later adaptation, and was done so because the two fish
>ground together come close to resembling carp.
>
>Other than that though.... yum!!!!
>
>It is funny about the Sephardim.  I think the extra limitations arose from
>poor crop years in the north, which didn't affect the Spaniards and the
>middle eastern Jews.  I had seder with some Iranian Jews once and the food
>was wonderous, but the peanut-pea dish was not exactly what I was
>expecting.
>
>Cu drag,
>Bogdan
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