[Sca-cooks] weird question - honey fast???

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Suey wrote:

> Whoever - Terry Decker - wrote way back in July - but between  
> illnesses and whatever I have not had a chance to air the question.
>> Brears mentions a recipe snip which can be prepared in different  
>> versions for flesh, fish,
>> and lent days. The meat day version includes a small amount of  
>> honey snip
>> My question is, apart from the obvious reality of where honey comes
>> from, has anyone run across any specific reference to honey being a
>> flesh-day, animal-type product to be avoided on other days? Again,
>> obviously that's just what it is, but every so often the logic  
>> doesn't
>> quite make sense to us, and we can't just assume that it would be
>> regarded as forbidden on fish days.
>>
>>
>> Adamantius
>>
>>
>> This is a really interesting question.
>>
>> The Orthodox Church considers honey to be a product of animals and  
>> prohibits it during Lent.  Whether this is true of the Roman  
>> Catholic Church, I have no idea.
>>
>> IIRC, the Roman Catholic dietary rules are derived from the  
>> Benedictine Rule, but I haven't found any reference as to how honey  
>> is viewed other than it was used as a common food stuff.  Woolgar  
>> may have something on it, but I haven't located much on the meat- 
>> fish-Lent issue.
>>
>> Bear
>>
> Please enlighten me I cannot not figure how anyone one can fathom  
> honey as a meat product.

Well, it's clearly an animal product, as much as, say milk.

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