SC - Religious dietary restrictions

[Stefan li Rous]

Lady Brighid ni Chiarain said:
> I have to say that our area of northern New Jersey is blessed with many 
> ethnic food stores that carry all kinds of interesting goods.  At this 
> same Pakistani grocery, I picked up a spare bottle of rosewater, as well 
> as some pomegranate molasses (there's a recipe I want to redact Real 
> Soon Now -- a sauce of almond milk drawn up with pomegranate juice 
> and spices).  

"Pomegranate Molasses"? Check the ingredient label. Was this pure
pomegranate juice, perhaps reduced? Or pomegranate juice, perhaps
with molasses or sugar added?

I did find straight pomegranate juice at an Iranian food store this
last fall. If it has sugar added, just be aware of it.

> One of the local supermarkets has started carrying all 
> kinds of organ meats, I think in an attempt to compete with the meat 
> department of a large Chinese grocery in the same town.  Now, if I could 
> only find a local source of real verjuice...

Check some of the sources given in this file in the FOOD section of my
files:
verjuice-msg      (39K) 12/ 9/99    Medieval verjuice. Modern substitutions.
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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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