[Sca-cooks] Redacting another Jewish dish (fwd)

[margali]

um, isnt the definiton of servant 'one who is employed to do certain 
tasks' so by definition, the servant cooking occasionally could have 
been stipulated [anna - i have a bad headache, cook today for me.] or 
even a regular part of her duties[wanted, one maid of all work who will 
also cook.] what might have been odd is the mistress actually doing the 
cooking on a particular day...as in well the servant cooking normally is 
ok, but on the sabbath i as a jewess will cook for the family, rendering 
the food 'more kosher'. it really doesnt specify if she cooked all the 
time, or what flipped out the maid was she cooked only on fridays...THAT 
would be a definite sign of someting.

margali

[and please dont ream me out ofer the definition of kosher. i lived with 
a man who kept kosher and his mother refused to eat ANYTHING i cooked, 
even after watching me use the correct sets of implements and 
ingredients.  I just was NOT jewish, and therefor EVERYTHING i did was 
unclean...]

Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:
> Come to think of it, for a Saturday feast, everything would be cold 
> unless it could have been left on a fire to keep warm without tending.  
> Or it would have to be served long enough after dark that it could have 
> been cooked after sunset.  Perhaps a converso could have had her 
> servants tend to the food on Saturday  - the period equivalent of the 
> modern "Sabbath Goy" - but that would have made false conversos 
> extremely obvious, so maybe not.
> 
> -Magdalena
>