[Sca-cooks] Cholent

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Does anyone have a period recipe for some form of a Cholent (Shabbeth
> stew) or something that could work as such? Jewish law says that you can't
> cook on Shabbos, so you prepare a stew on friday and let it sit on a
> banked fire overnight to eat for lunch the next day (Ok we will be using a
> crock pot). so does anyone have any sugestions for a period recipe that
> might work for this? It will have to be kosher of course, but we can
> always play with things to make it kosher.

The chickpeas, onions, honey and spices dish would work if you started
with unsoaked chickpeas, I believe. (There's no recipe, it's from the
Inquisition records...)

A number of the recipes in the Al-Andalus manuscript are slow cooked and
might be suitable.

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