While skimming through 500 Choice Recipes (1930), a cookbook published by the Temple Sholom Sisterhood in Chicago, IL, I noticed that there were more than a few mentions of non-Kosher foods, such as shrimp and pork. I thought this might relate to the Der Keneder Adler article we read for today, except that this cookbook offers blatantly, not concealed, un-Kosher recipes.
Check out the images below and see if you can click on the foods that are NOT kosher!
Also—I have to share this one. Not only is this not kosher, but it offends my 21st-century palette a little too much. If anyone has had something like this and begs to differ, let me know! I’ll try anything once. The “beverage” recipe following the “Clam Juice Cocktail” is a “Duo-tone Cocktail,” which suggests mixing 2/3 cups of tomato juice with 1/3 cup of “sauer kraut” juice in such a way that the latter is floating on the other, creating the “duo-tone.” I love sauerkraut, but I can’t quite imagine that combination is very good….
I love these clickable menus to figure out what is not kosher! (Though apparently you and I disagree on some items of kashrut, which was amusing.) I think there is a way to give people the option of seeing what they missed which might be useful. I wonder if the denomination of Temple Shalom would shed some light on what their criteria are for Jewish recipes? Great connection to the readings for the day!
best,
Laura
Thank you for the feedback! I found this particular h5p format to be a tad difficult to control. I believe I successfully got the feedback to pop up at the bottom of the activity window, but since some of the information I wanted to share didn’t quite fit into the “correct” or “wrong” category, I arbitrarily picked the former (e.g. how “gelatin” is a “correct” answer but it is actually a more nuanced issue, or so a cursory Google search says).
It seems that Temple Sholom is Reform and still standing and, founded in 1867, is one of the oldest synagogues in Chicago. At over 1,100 families, it is also one of the largest! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Sholom).