2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
For centuries, Jews, traveling the world from country to country, have spread their customs, cooking utensils and recipes. The result is a varied cuisine and yet compliant with the rules of the basic law of Judaism - kashrut. According to the Torah, kashrut determines the foods that Jews can consume. They, in turn, are called kosher.
Among the animals, anyone who has hooves and has split hooves and survives, eat it. However, of those who have split hooves, do not eat the following: the camel, the domestic rabbit, the wild rabbit, and the swine (Bible, Chapter Three, Moses, Leviticus, ch. 11).
For this reason, Jews do not eat pork and rabbit meat. The animals are slaughtered by a spiritual person, Shochet, who is, so to speak, a specialist in slaughter and who ensures that he will be killed painlessly and thus his blood will not get toxins released during stress. According to tradition, the joint consumption of dairy and meat products is prohibited. It is not even customary to use the same utensils for cooking. The Jews use only vegetable oil and never fry, only stew.
The Jewish settlers were divided into two main groups: the Sephardim (who inhabited the Mediterranean, the Middle and Far East) and the Ashkenazi (from Germany, France, Russia, and Eastern Europe). The menu of the Sephardim included foods typical of the southern countries (olive oil, eggplant) in combination with Eastern flavors such as Turkish [syrup cakes].
Eshkenazi are characterized by heavier dishes suitable for the cool climate of the northern countries: soups, legumes, stews, dumplings, pastries and stuffed breads. Bulgarian Jews have preserved the traditions of Sephardic cuisine.
Saturday is a holiday for the Jews - Shabbat, and a festive dinner is prepared. The tables are rich during the other holidays - Pesach, Purim, Hanukkah. During the Passover celebration, it is forbidden to eat yeast in memory of the flight of the Jews from Egypt, when they did not have time to wait for the bread to rise. Only unleavened bread called maca can be consumed. Sometimes it can be ground and used to make various pastries. Even beer is not allowed because of brewer's yeast.
Sweets are a logical result of recipes collected over centuries of travel. Sweet latex made from potato dough is well known. The famous Jewish masapan is a candy made from boiled, peeled and ground almonds and is served on special occasions. It is a tradition to serve tea or coffee at the end of the meal.
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