You have met your old friend who is notThey have already seen a thousand years, and they invited him to dinner at their house for joy. Excellent! Yes, that's what to treat the guest of honor, if he is a Jew? Cover table with an inherent scope for the Russian soul is not a problem, but it will be extremely unpleasant if your treats remain untouched.
You probably know that in "inveterate" Jewishfamilies use only kosher products. What is it - you probably also heard. "Kosher" means "clean" or "right". So, how to properly set the table and what tasty treat your friend and family members?
Первое, что приходит в голову – не готовить pork. Jews do not eat pork, because this animal does not live in the best sanitary conditions, eats pomi and sleeps in the mud. How can such meat be considered "clean"? You will be surprised to learn that this is not quite true. Even if you grow a pig in the most pure conditions, you will take her into the shower several times a day, regulate the best foods from your table and put them to sleep on satin sheets, her meat will never become "clean" either gram. Equally the same as the meat of a sheep (and it is believed that it is kosher products), it can be far from kosher.
Many have heard that kosher products -that the rabbi blessed, and it should be prepared solely by the hands of a Jew. If you talk like that, then you will not be able to cook kosher food and it is not written for the family at all. After all, you are not a Jew, much less a rabbi. That is, if you buy the best piece of the "purest" product in the Jewish shop, bring it home, cut it beautifully on a plate, you will not get a kosher treat. That's so bad luck.
In fact, each person determines for himselfa degree of "severity". And if a friend of your Jewish blood, this does not mean that a joint dinner is doomed to failure. If he has accepted your invitation, it means to be good. But still you need to know a little about what kosher products are and what features it has.
Для того чтобы определить, что такое кошерная products, we turn to where there are answers to all worldly questions - to the Holy Scripture. It was the soil for the growth of the great kosher tree. What is written there?
The Old Testament (Leviticus, chapter 11) will help us understandessence. In it, the Lord gives clear instructions to Moses and Aaron about what can be eaten and what is bad. So, you can eat meat of animals that have forked claws with a deep cut and chew the cud. That is, they are cloven-hoofed, feeding on grass. But here you need to be careful: a camel, for example, chews chewing gum, but its hooves do not have a deep cut, so it drops out of the kosher list. As well as the pig: although she has paired claws, she does not chew the cud (so that's the secret of the pig).
This list is quite extensive, and we will return to it. And now let's dwell on how the products are divided according to ritual purity. Parve, club and kosher products - what is it?
With blessed food all is not so simple. It should not only be allowed to be eaten by religion, but also properly prepared, and some products should not be confused.
Meat kosher products are the front partcarcasses allowed for consumption as an animal, which was correctly killed and refreshed. The process should be minimally painful, and the living creature cuts a special person - a sheikhet. Also, the meat should be completely freed from blood. This also applies to the bird.
Трефовая (не кошерная продукция) - что это такое?This is a prohibited food or one that was improperly prepared, cooked or because of improper storage has lost its "purity". For example, it is not a properly killed sheep, or a rear calf ham, or a sandwich with sausage and cheese. Dairy products and meat can not be confused!
Parev is that food that does not belong to eithermeat, or milk (eggs, vegetables). Moreover, from steamed (or parve) can not be cooked using dishes that were previously used for cooking meat or milk dishes, otherwise they will become clubs. But they can be eaten with meat or dairy products - this is not forbidden.
The Holy Scripture says:"Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his mother." Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to mix these types of products. They can not even be cooked using the same dish, wash it in one sink. In Jewish families, different kitchen utensils are used, and if there is only one wash basin in the family, the dishes are washed in different basins. But at the same time, such products can be stored in one refrigerator.
It is inadmissible to combine these two types of product inone dish. And you can eat only after a certain period of time. After taking milk, you can eat meat only after 2 hours. If the meat was eaten first, then you need to wait 6 hours and only after that there are dairy products.
The list of forbidden and permitted products can be made truly endless. But we will dwell a little on what kind of kosher products are most often consumed and available for sale.
Meat and poultry
Goat, lamb, meat of cattle, venison and other game, corresponding to the prescription. Of the bird: goose, duck, chicken, turkey, quail, pigeon, pheasant.
Seafood and fish
You can eat only fish that have fins andscales, but seafood can not. The permitted ones are: herring, sprat, halibut, pike, mackerel, salmon, sardine, flounder, tuna, perch, cod and carp. In general, all species that fit the description, but the catfish is not a "pure" fish.
Alcohol
Kosher wine can only be made by a Jew. But vodka refers to parve (not on a dairy basis).
Jews are people who can be found inany corner of our planet. Therefore, kosher products in Russia are provided in a wide range. Buy it can be in specialized stores, with synagogues, and sometimes Jewish communities sell. If it's your job to meet such unusual guests in your home, give your main preference to neutral products. These are fruits, vegetables, cereals, pasta and eggs - they can be bought everywhere. But for the rest you need to go to a store that has kosher certification.
