Articles by Initial Letters
Növényi étolajok szerepe a paraszti táplálkozásban
- Issue: 2018/1
- Starting page: 42
- Author: Juhász Katalin
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The role of vegetable oils in the Hungarian peasant diet: traditionally Hungarians use animal fat – mainly pork fat – to cook with. However there is a custom of using vegetable oils in the kitchen during the Lenten season. Oils used were/are made from seeds found in the region: flax, linseed, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed. Nut (walnut/almond) oils, beech nut and poppy seed oils are also mentioned. There is a history of using homemade oils for healing. Traditional methods for making oil (cooking, pressing) are described; and fasting during Lent which varies according to the religion (the types of Catholicism; and Calvinism) and levels of observance. In general, pre-Easter fasting means leaving meat and meat products out of one’s diet for 40 days, hence the use of vegetable oils. By Juhász Katalin.