[Sca-cooks] Wine vinegar in medieval Islamic cuisine

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

Yeah, that's where it was. But I also did a bit of web surfing through 
the hadith and found the actual quote, together with a number of 
discussions of the question by Islamic scholars. The quote can be found 
here: 


http://www.theonlyquran.com/hadith/Sahih-Muslim/?volume=23&chapter=28


However, there exists another hadith telling the story of some orphans 
who had inherited a quantity of wine. One leader suggested that it could 
be made into vinegar, but Prophet forbade this and commanded that the 
wine be poured out.


I found a fascinating discussion citing both hadiths and attempting to 
reconcile them at:


http://en.islamtoday.net/artshow-381-3282.htm


-- Galefridus

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> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:19:46 -0800
> From: David Friedman To: Cooks within the SCA Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] 
> Wine vinegar in medieval Islamic cuisine
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> I'm pretty sure Nasrallah says that in the discussion of vinegar in 
> her translation of al-Warraq.
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> On 11/17/14, 12:37 PM, Galefridus Peregrinus wrote:
>> I'll have to research to find the location, but I have seen at least 
>> one medieval source stating the the Prophet thought that the best 
>> vinegar is that made from wine. I'll poke around a bit tonight -- 
>> maybe I'll be able to find it again.
>>
>>
>> -- Galefridus