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

[Laura C. Minnick]

Antonia Calvo wrote:
>
> OK, next question.  Has anyone seen any recipes or instructions in 
> period books that suggest that honey should _not_ be used in Lent?  I 
> can't remember ever having seen any mention of it.
>
The only proscription I know of is for Cathars- the _perfecti_ and those 
aspiring to be them apparently weren't supposed to eat honey. How 
strictly this was followed, I don't know. We don't have nearly as much 
documentation on their habits as we do on, say, Lenten dietary restrictions.

'Lainie

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