SC - Period weddings

[Alderton, Philippa]

	Sindara asked where I received my information, and I dug it up last
night:
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	Date:	Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:36:13 EST
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	Subject:	SC - Medieval Hanukah/Purim

	Snip.....In the book "Eat and be Satisfied" by John Cooper
	(ISBN0-87668-316-2), there is a whole chapter talking about Sabbath
and
	Festival food in the Middle Ages.  This is what it says about
Hanukah:
	"Although the custom of eating cheese dishes on Hanukkah can be
traced to
	the story of Judith, an Israelite heroine in the Apocrypha who gave
the
	enemy general Holofernes milk to dreink before assassinating him,
this
	practice of eating cheese delicacies did not become popular until
the
	Middle Ages, when it was referred to with approval by Rabbi Nissim
ben
	Reuben in the 14th century.  Kalonymos ben Kalonymos (1287-1377)
also
	stated that special cakes were eaten on Hanukkah, and he wrote a
poem for
	the festival extolling the merits of eating pancakes that wree fried
in
	oil. Throughout Europe and the Middle East, Jews ate these pancakes
to
	commemorate the miracle of the lights that burned for eight days in
the
	Temple, although there was a supply of oil sufficient for only one
day"

I guess this gives me another option for the Chanukah meal - fried cheese
fingers.  Now to see if I can document them .............

(I know that joking like that gives some of the perfectionists on the list
little twitches.  My goal is to see if something like this was done in
period and use that receipt, not to force period recipes into modern forms
so that I can use the modern version.  My favourite example is "To Make a
Fine Brede" which comes out very much like angelfood cake - which doesn't
prove that angelfood cake is period, but shows that something like it was
known back then.  It doesn't give me leave to buy angelfood cakes to serve,
but does give me leave to "Make a Fine Brede" and serve that, translating
the title as "angelfood cake."  Or am I too far off base here?)


	                                                    ---= Morgan


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