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Since everyones posting stuff about their ethnicitys food. Thought Id pipe in with this interesting tidbit I found out about one of the most indispensable and iconic Ashkenazi ingredients: Schmaltz rendered from a chicken or goose was used by northwestern and eastern European Jews who were forbidden by kashrut (Jewish dietary laws) from frying their meats in butter or lard, the common forms of cooking fat in Europe, as butter, being derived from milk, cannot be used with meat under the Jewish prohibition on mixing meat and dairy, and lard is derived from pork, an unkosher meat. Furthermore, tallow derived from beef or mutton would have been uneconomical, particularly given that virtually all suet (the raw material for tallow) is chelev and its consumption is forbidden. Northwestern and Eastern European Jews also could not obtain the kinds of vegetable-derived cooking oils such as olive oil and sesame oil, used in the Middle East and around the Mediterranean (as in Spain and Italy). Also, apparently the geese fattened for schmaltz production were the origins of the tradition of foie gras in France. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmaltz
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:18:56 +0000

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