New cookbook features unique kosher dishes unwittingly prepared by generations of a Catholic Cuban-Spanish family with hidden Sephardic Jewi
The wonderful @heavyweightheart shared this awesome article with me some months ago, and I'm still cackling madly at the sheer huevos on the women who developed this recipe:
That's a dessert - a type of French toast, if you will - that's meant to look like chuletas, pork chops, and to throw off nosy neighbours set on selling out their crypto-Jewish (don't get confused here, crypto as in hidden) neighbours to the inquisition.
Y'all. These kickass women developed a kosher, pork looking dish. That's classified as milk 😆
Anyway, read the article. I'm just focusing on the spite bits, bc gremblin. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯ It is about a woman who was tipped off about her Jewish roots based on her family's recipes, which had been passed down to her:
When Milgrom was in her 30s, as a young divorcee she felt drawn to Judaism and she converted to Modern Orthodox Judaism. She married a Jewish man and then discovered she might have Crypto-Jewish heritage. She realized that her family’s unique culinary habits were actually related to kashrut — the Jewish dietary laws — and other commandments surrounding food preparation. For instance, tearing off a bit of dough and burning it is called hafrashat challah (separating challah), a Jewish religious commandment stemming from a biblical sacrifice.
The best detail about this entire story is that she had already gone back to Judaism before she even found out she was bnei anusim :')
Anyway, her cookbook sounds amazing. Some of her recipes sound a little like how @sefarad 's nonna makes things like bimuelos, measuring in egg shells and the like.
This potsherd from 475 BC was found on the island of Elephantine, close to the border between Egypt and Nubia, which was home to a small, close-knit Jewish community at the time.It reads; “To Hoshaya. Greetings! Take care of the children until Ahutab gets there. Don’t trust anyone else with them! If the flour for your bread has been ground, make a small portion of dough to last until their mother gets there. Let me know when you will be celebrating Pascha (Passover). Tell me how the baby is doing!”Besides a wonderfully evocative peek inside a daily conversation, the sherd contains one of the earliest non-biblical references to #Passover. Passover commemorates the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt and is observed annually by Jewish people all over the world. This year, Passover begins tonight and ends on Thursday 16 April. You can find out more about this sherd and many other fascinating objects relating to Judaism in our collection in ‘The Jewish Journey’ by Rebecca Abrams, available online.
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