Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recipe, sent to Madame by a Hong Kong herb practitioner: stew a pure white dove in plain water until meat separates from bones. Drink only the broth. Expect no results for six weeks, maybe never...
...prohibited, orthodox Jews must beware of soda pop containing food coloring made from an alcoholic base, which in turn is often manufactured from leavened grain. The Old Testament prohibition against cooking a kid in its mother's milk is extended in Jewish homes to maintaining separate dishes for meat and dairy products. Explains Housewife Dorothy Tresley, an M.A. in educational psychology: "I have 4½ sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces, and a special meat set and dairy set for Passover. The girl who comes in to help...
...Kosher meat is more expensive, too. Its slaughter must be rabbinically supervised and conducted according to a set ritual pattern that stresses humaneness. The animal's throat must be cut, says Israel's Chief Rabbi Herzog, "with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered...
Nothing Wishy-Washy. Second reason for the high cost of kosher meat: butcher shops, also supervised by rabbis, must scrupulously trim fat from, all meat. "The Jewish housewife is very particular," says Jack Price, a director of the Chicago Kosher Butchers Association. "She doesn't care about price. She will haggle about the looks of the meat, and make the butcher cut this and that until she is satisfied...
...nights are biting cold; the days usually hot. The Cloetes are rationed to two meals a day, skipping either breakfast or lunch, but Bill frequently stops to stalk "some meat for the boys." It is against "the code of the White Hunter" to shoot game from the car, but at a distance of about 200 yards, "there was the usual bang...