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

[Zachary Kessin]

Well, it is the custom, in order to show that we are not karrites, to
have warm food for lunch on Shabbat. In modern times people use a
crock pot or hot plate or the like, but in period they would have
used a fire that had been banked and the like. Mostly you would have
some form of a stew.

If anyone likes I can try to have a friend find the laws of this in
the Shulkan Aruch or the RAMBAM's Mishna Torah. But it will have to
wait until next week. Both of those works are period books of Jewish
law. And they are both still studied and used today.

Now this being said the Conversos were not holding strictly to Jewish
law, as they were pretending to be christians. So who knows what they
did.


--Yehoshua


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:

> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>
> >> The authors' translation doesn't include the beginning phrase, "On
> >>FRIDAYS... her mistress used to make..."  [Emphasis added]  I think the
> >>significant thing is that she was making a certain dish regularly on
> >>Fridays.  This would be an indication to the Inquisitors that the woman
> >>might have been secretly observing the Jewish Sabbath.  I don't think the
> >>absense of bacon fat is an issue here, since Christians would be
> >>abstaining from meat on Fridays.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hm... does that maybe mean the dish is to be served cold?
> >
> >
> 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
>
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> Tara Sersen Boroson
>
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