[Sca-cooks] Kosher or Not

[Rovena]

To be kosher is not just a matter of ingredients.  The word "kosher"
 means "properly prepared".  This applies to ingredients, to how animals
were killed, to the dishes used.

All vegetables are okay as are minerals.

Any food from the sea that has fins and scales are okay.
All birds except birds of prey are okay.
Mammals must have a cloven-hoof and chews a cud.

Mammals & birds must be properly prepared.  They must be ritually
slaughtered, have been healthy when alive, have all forbidden parts
removed, and be free of blood - - the shohet will handled this during
the slaughtering.

Meat can not be mixed with diary products.  Eggs have a whole bnch of
rules of their own.

You have to have separate dishes, kitchen utensils, silverware, and dish
towels for meat meals and diary meals.  These items are to be kept
separate at all times from cleaning, using, and storing.

A kitchen or an item has ever used for non-kosher meals is teref; once
contaminated it is never ksoher again.

The typical SCA event is held at non-kosher sites so you can't prepare a
kosher meal there.

AF Murphy wrote:

> I'm certainly not an expert, but my experience is that poultry is very
> much considered meat in this case, even though it is not a mammal.
> Fish, however, is not. Comments from those who know more than I do?
>
> You'd do better to leave out the cheese. I don't remember cheese in a
> Scotch Egg anyway, though again, I've never actually made one, just
> eaten them. And if the cook keeps a Kosher kitchen, she surely knows
> this.
>
> Anne
>
> John Kemker wrote:
>
>> Remember, that to be kosher, it is not sufficient to just not have pork.
>> Part of kosher is to not mix dairy and meat.  You can mix dairy and
>> poultry,
>> but not dairy and other meats.  It's part of the "not cooking an
>> animal in
>> the milk of its mother" restriction.
>>
>> Hence, you cannot use beef sausage in kosher scotch eggs if you're
>> going to
>> use cheese in the eggs.  You have to use a poultry sausage, instead.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>
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