Chapter 46 – Forbidden Foods

46.1) Eggs with blood found in them are forbidden to be eaten.

46.2) Fish blood is forbidden to be eaten.

46.3) If you find blood from your gums on your bread or other food, you must  throw away the bread or food without eating it.

46.4) Consult a rabbi when cow’s milk has blood in it.

46.5) Do not cook meat and dairy products together.

46.6) Two Jewish acquaintances must not eat together at the same table if one eats meat and the other dairy products.

46.7) Do not eat of the same loaf of bread with both meat and dairy products.

46.8) Mark utensils to be used for dairy foods only.

46.9) Wait six hours after eating meat to eat a dairy product.

46.10) You may eat dairy food immediately after eating a food that contained neither meat nor animal fat.)

46.11) You may eat meat after eating cheese if you wash your hands thoroughly.

46.12) Remove bread from the table if you eat meat without cheese.

46.13) Consult a rabbi if you use a knife to cut an onion or other pungent food to see how you might use the knife.

46.14) Use the whole almond when preparing a meat dish with almonds.

46.15) You may not purify utensils used for dairy products to use for meats.

46.16) Double seal wine, meat, or fish entrusted to a non-Jew.

46.17) Tie and seal a sack that has food in it entrusted to a non-Jew.

46.18) Consult a rabbi if you entrust a slaughtered beast or fowl to a non-Jew without a seal.

46.19) Cheese and other foods are considered unfit if you do not know how a non-Jew may have handled them.

46.20) Do not cook or fry food with a non-Jew.

46.21) Do not purchase wine or food that has doubtful ritual purity.

46.22) Do not leave culinary utensils in the house of a non-Jew.

46.23) Do not eat fowl that has been trussed and thrown on the ground even if it is ritually killed.

46.24) Swellings on the intestines of ducks make them ritually unfit.

46.25) Do not knead dough with milk.

46.26) Do not eat bread with dairy products that have been baked in the same oven as meat.

46.27) Clean your oven bottom with glowing coal if milk or grease overflows on it.

46.28) You may eat castrated cocks.

46.29) Consult a rabbi about the fitness of eating a goose raised by a non-Jew.

46.30) Preserve fruit by placing a ritually fit bladder skin over the opening of the fruit container and place it in a hot oven.

46.31) Do not drink unfiltered water from streams or rivers that contain worms.

46.32) Filter water through a closely woven cloth to eliminate all insects.

46.33) Filtered vinegar that contains worms is not to be used.

46.34) Do not eat fruits or vegetables that have any indication of worms in them.

46.35) Fruits that usually have worms when attached to the tree may be eaten if cleaned well.

46.36) Examine all areas of a piece of fruit before using it.

46.37) You may use flour and cereals that have worms if you sift them first to get rid of the worms.

46.38) Do not sell food with worms to any non-Jews as they may find their way back to a Jew.

46.39) Do not eat any vegetables known to be infected with worms or mites.

46.40) Take care not to eat nuts that contain mites.

46.41) Cleanse a vessel were mites are found before using.

46.42) Wipe off a knife that touches fruit with a worm.

46.43) Carefully examine fish for worms and insects and scrap them off before using the fish.

46.44) You can eat cheese with worms in it as long as you separate the worms from the cheese.

46.45) Do not eat creeping things. This is a sin.

46.46) Do not consult a second rabbi regarding forbidden food in order to obtain another opinion.