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Skriven 2012-05-03 23:17:18 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: KOSHER 547  20429
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->  -> I like bacon, but the stuff I get from the local s/market is watery
->  -> and lacks flavour.  All the local butchers except one are Halal, and
->  RH> And is made from turkey to boot?  I've eaten turkey bacon; it's not
->  RH> worth  the salt content.  That sounds like a poor excuse for the
->  RH> product. 
-> 
-> That is something else I have never tried, or even seen in local
-> shops.  Possibly it would be sold in the Central Market in Adelaide.
-> 
Feel grateful you've missed it.  It's not worth seeking out unless you want 
to try it for perversity's sake or you can't eat pork.   

->  RH> I think you'll survive then.  I'm  not overly fond of salami unless 
I
->  RH> nuke  out about half the fat.  
-> 
-> My favourite of that kind of fermented sausage is a local brand
-> (Butch's Smallgoods) of country made smoked "garlic and red wine
-> Danish salami".  It contains 22% total fat, 70% pork, 25% beef, 0.56%
-> port wine and 0.33% garlic.  Usually eaten without cooking, but diced,
-> it makes a good addition to a fried rice.

I'm not sure I've ever put salami in fried rice although I suppose if you
an 
use Chinese sausage it could be done.  I get some Italian brands here 
sometimes that are delicious.  
  
->  RH> Some folks like bacon and peanut butter as well.  
-> 
-> Good that you experiment with such apparently disparate combinations.
-> I often combine peanut butter, cheese and cucumber on my toast.

That's not one I could eat I don't think.  The cheese and peanut butter 
would fight each other.  
  
->  RH> There are Kosher for Passover wines, but most of them aren't very
->  RH> good.   They're all but required to have some on the table though, 
so
->  RH> it's made.   The original rules don't specify what sort of wine it 
has
->  RH> to be; this was a  later add-on.
->  
-> How do you make wine without fermentation?

I think you kill the fermentation somehow after the wine has been made.  
I've never had any that made me want to take a second sip, so it's hard for 
me to know for certain without doing some digging.
 
->  RH> Beaten air?  Souffles work just fine, as do meringues, so I'd say 
yes.
-> 
-> Ah!  I didn't think of those, which I have eaten, but not made.

I've done both at one time or another.  My BIL loves key lime pie, and I've 
done key lime meringue pies often enough.  It's dead simple unless you get 
some egg yolk mixed into the whites.  Then it's impossible.
 
->  RH> not the same in baked goods requiring flour, but then since KforP
->  RH> items are  made of matzoh meal it's a lost cause anyway. 
-> 
-> (Showing my ignorance of sephardic food once again)  I tried to find
-> out exactly what matzoh meal is, and looked into my recipes, coming up
-> with the info as given below, which is not all that informative.)

Ground up matzoh - it's baked and then mashed up.  You can make the 
equivalent (although why you'd want to I have no clue) out of plain water 
crackers that aren't dead white.  It's actually Ashkenazi rather than 
Sephardic.
  
->  RH> Well, some reason originally, but it's been taken a bit far.  Foods
->  RH> that  aren't Kosher for Passover either have to be "sold" or given
->  RH> away, generally 
->  RH> to a non-Jewish neighbor.  The neighbor then "sells" the stuff back
->  RH> after  Passover.  Either that, or you put it all in the tool shed 
for
->  RH> the duration.
-> 
-> Just as well there are rabbis to advise on all those details...

They're about the only ones who can keep it all straight, and even they
have 
to keep textbooks handy for the more esoteric stuff.  New foods, or at
least 
new to the locality foods, require some research and work. 
 
-> I got interested in Sephardic foods and customs after staying in the
-> "Jewish town" areas of Spanish and Portuguese cities.  The narrow,
-> winding streets and remaining, restored sinagogues mainly dated from
-> 11th to 13th centuries, when the Muslim rulers were tolerant of the
-> both the Jews and Christians.  After 1492 the Christian Kings,
-> Ferdinand and Isabella, with the help of the Inquisition, expelled the
-> Jews.  The old Roman/Visigoth/Moorish/Christian walled city of Toledo
-> has 2 simple, elegant sinagogues and a Jewish museum.
-> 
Lots of folks had to convert, pretend to convert, or skedaddle.  That's why 
lots of Dutch Jews had Spanish family names.  Still do if I remember right.

-> In that city we stayed at a "pension" run by a widow and her daughter.
-> For 30 Euros/night we got a lovely room, and use of the kitchen to do
-> our own cooking.  The woman did the washing up, which made the
-> arrangement quite enjoyable.  Like so many houses in the area, it was
-> of the Moorish design with a courtyard garden and dining area.  That
-> is my favourite style of house for the Mediterranean climate.
-> 
It sounds nice.  As long as it's not raining anyway; then it could get a
bit 
sloshy. Dilutes the wine and all that.  
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