[Sca-cooks] More on rotten meat... lard during Lent

[Antonia Calvo]

Suey wrote:
>
>> Giano:
>>   
>>>> Another gem that I'm having difficulty sourcing: during Lent, 
>>>> butter was replaced by pig fat.
>>>>
>>>>
>> That's certainly not true in general terms. However, I have seen it
>> asserted in print that the Spaniards got a blanket dispensation to eat
>> lard during Lent as part of the Bull of the Crusade (Bull? Sacr?
>> Cruciat? Dilucidatio)/./ In fact, that's only true in the sense that
>> that Bull grants the faithful of the Spanish dominions got a
>> dispensation to eat *meat* during most of Lent and most fast day.
>>    
> I do not know early dispensations came into allowing meat during Lent. 
> My medieval sources say olive oil was used instead of lard. My former 
> husband´s family paid for dispensations but fish was customary in our 
> home on Fridays until I pointed out that it was more expensive than 
> chicken. After that we observed Lent on Fridays with chicken and onion 
> croquettes fried in olive oil.

Here's the reference in the Original Catholic Encyclopedia
http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Bull_of_the_Crusade

and in New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543b.htm

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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