SC - Kuskenole - was, Authenticity, philosophy, and advocacy

[Stefan li Rous]

I am curious if you have a source for what you have noted on Jewish dietary
laws.  Kashrut goes back to the Torah and is extensively discussed in the
Talmud, Mishna and Shulchan Aruch (Texts of Jewish Law). The first 3
predate the middle ages and the last one is a period test.

Sindara


At 08:07 PM 6/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Phillipa writes:
>>>>>Even though my persona is not Jewish, I am very 
>interested in how and what the Jews of the Middle Ages 
>and Renaissance cooked. The dishes they prepared.
>
>My theory is that they ate very closely to what the 
>non Jews ate except that they "koshered" it up.  ie: 
>redid the recipe to fit their dietary needs.  I do feel that 
>they would have chosen from the foodstuffs locally 
>available and made kosher versions of treif dishes.<<<<
>
>You might excercise some caution here in any recipe
>assumptions of Jewish cookery in the Middle Ages.
>The current orthodox Jewish dietary laws were put
>into effect around the early 16th century in central
>European gettos.  This is much, much stricter than
>the enforced laws in the previous centuries.  The
>change came about when the Jews in the Germanic
>states were elvolving even their own language (Yiddish)
>from German.  The farmers supplying the ghettos were
>suspected of cheating their Jewish customers, adultrating
>or deliberately contaminating the food.  In an angry reaction
>to these non-jews (goyiem or "cattle"), the Jewish elders
>set up the current system of supervised harvest and slaughter
>still in use today.  Obviously, before this the Jews would
>not have eaten grossly forbidden food items like blood or
>bacon, but they likely slaughtered the animals like anyone
>else did and didn't have all the ritual regarding utensils and
>such we have now.  Probably, earlier practice was similar to
>many followers of Islam who ocassionally take a nip of wine.
>
>If you do adjust period recipes, keep in mind the current
>kosher practices are not the same.
>
>Akim Yaroslavich
>"No glory comes without pain
>
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