Get out your oils!

[Shawn]

It's Hanukkah bitches!

Time to rock the menorah!

[rainbowdemon]

What does oil have to do with it?

Anyway, Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends!!

[KiwiCoromandel]

What does oil have to do with it?

someone probably gets boiled in it..... :)

[Hemoglobin Harry]

The original story of Hanukkah will tell you about the oil. A lot of people still use oil because it's sort of traditional.

Candles are easier.

[rainbowdemon]

:)

[KiwiCoromandel]

The original story of Hanukkah will tell you about the oil. A lot of people still use oil because it's sort of traditional.

Candles are easier.

...For Jewish Cookbook Author Shoshana Barer, Hanukkah's About the Art of Frying....

"Frying is an art," she explains. The temperature of the oil must be just right. Hot enough to sputter, but not so hot that it smokes. Furthermore, the right oil must be chosen. Barer recommends peanut oil. Like a pro, she knows when to flip foods sizzling in oil, so they become brown -- not burnt.

For that reason, she could be called the high priestess of Chanukah fare, a holiday revolving around a one-day supply of purified oil that defied the odds and lasted eight days. Back in 165 B.C.E., Judah Maccabee and his small band of heroes defeated the Syrian Greek army, restoring the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and regaining religious freedom for Jews. Since then, oil has become a reminder of this miracle and the cooking ingredient of choice during Chanukah's eight days.

http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=169033

[slum_goddess]

someone probably gets boiled in it..... :)

in my family? too true, too true.

good one, RD.

my menorah (sister brought it back from Israel yonks ago) is in the cupboard---i've got enough candles burning here every night.