Guest guest Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 >Has this group ever kicked around the question of why meat is not >supposed to be cooked in milk? > >I'm wondering if it might harder on the milk than on the meat, and >the damaged nutrients would get picked up by the meat. > >Thoughts? > > It is forbidden by Jewish law, is one thing. However, the reason I don't do it (besides that I don't do milk anymore) is that the milk curdles if there is any acid in the mix, unless you do something special like make a starch-mix with the milk first, or use mainly cream. I had really bad results, though some folks are more successful than I was. Since most soups taste better if they are a bit acidic, that makes life difficult. Coconut milk though, works great for most " milky " soups, like bisques and chowders. Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 At 9:13 PM +0000 3/3/05, wrote: >Message: 21 > Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:01:30 -0000 > From: " " <toyotaokiec@...> >Subject: Cooking meat in milk > > >Has this group ever kicked around the question of why meat is not >supposed to be cooked in milk? > >I'm wondering if it might harder on the milk than on the meat, and >the damaged nutrients would get picked up by the meat. > >Thoughts? I'd not heard of this being for any other reason than Jewish dietary taboo. Is it an NT no-no? If so, what's the science about it? It being a Jewish tradition suggests there is a nutritional reason behind the tradition, BUT I have also heard that Jews didn't do it because the tribes around them DID eat kid seethed in its mothers milk, and they wanted to distinguish themselves from that. How do we know that THEIR tradition didn't have some science behind it? And does the science of not cooking meat in milk relate at all to not eating milk and meat together, even if they were prepared separately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 I have yet to read any plausible " scientific " reasons behind Kosher dietary laws. The idea that Jews wanted to separate and distinguish themselves from the other (read: idol worshipping) groups around them makes much more sense to me. Circumcision and the family purity/mikveh laws set observant Jews apart from " non tribe members " as well. The religious reasons behind the dietary laws stem from the idea that every activity in your life (be it eating, having sex, cutting your hair, etc.) should in some way connect you back to God and his laws. I find Judaism fascinating and have studied it quite a bit, but as my (Jewish) husband says: " Any religion that forbids both bacon AND lobster needs to be questioned! " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 > Has this group ever kicked around the question of why meat is not > supposed to be cooked in milk? > > I'm wondering if it might harder on the milk than on the meat, and > the damaged nutrients would get picked up by the meat. > > Thoughts? > > Beef strogonoff used to do me in worse that spaghetti. Am GF and CF since then. The dairy with meat and gluten compared to the gluten and meat put too many compromised enzymes with that diet to work. Wanita -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.1 - Release Date: 2/27/2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 > I find Judaism fascinating and have studied it quite a >bit, but as my (Jewish) husband says: " Any religion that forbids both >bacon AND lobster needs to be questioned! " > > A friend of mine had a rabbi who told her, " Lobster is kosher, because I'm from Boston, and God wouldn't be that cruel. " -- Quick, USUM (ret.) www.en.com/users/jaquick Soy: what food eats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 LOL!!! That rabbi sounds cool...sign me up! > A friend of mine had a rabbi who told her, " Lobster is kosher, > because I'm from Boston, and God wouldn't be that cruel. " > -- > Quick, USUM (ret.) > www.en.com/users/jaquick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 - >Has this group ever kicked around the question of why meat is not >supposed to be cooked in milk? > >I'm wondering if it might harder on the milk than on the meat, and >the damaged nutrients would get picked up by the meat. Well, inasmuch as heat is supposed to really hurt milk, I'd guess that cooking with milk will do much the same. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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