At 9:27 PM -0400 8/1/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a message dated 8/1/2006 4:01:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi friends,Not related to quotes on alcohol, just for curiosity: Is there any rational explanation of why bahá'ís cannot eat meals cooked with alcoholic drinks? When the alcohol boils, only the savor survives and the alcohol vaporizes.
This quote from Shoghi Effendi says it all:
1173. Drinking Forbidden, No Excuse to Touch It Even in Plum Pudding
"Under no circumstances should Bahá'ís drink. It is unambiguously forbidden in the Tablet of Bahá'u'lláh, that there is no excuse for them even touching it in the form of a toast, or in a burning plum pudding; in fact, in any way."
(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, March 3, 1957: Cited in a letter from the Universal House of Justice to the National Assembly of Ecuador, December 21, 1972) (Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 349)
Besides, there are wonderful other flavorings one can use in cooking without alcohol....
I was thinking there was a subsequent letter from the House of
Justice saying that the decision whether to use small amounts of
alcohol based flavorings, such as vanilla was up to the individual.
The argument has been made that if there is no alcohol remaining,
then this stricture by the Guardian does not apply. That is the
rule I personally use. Thus I know of people who make
scrumptious ice cream toppings laced with rum. Even tho' there is
probably less than a tablespoon of rum per serving, I don't touch
them. (Demerara rum and coke was my drink of choice before
becoming a Baha'i.) I consider flaming rum pudding to be, at least
potentially, in this category. On the other hand, I have no
qualms about using small amounts of alcohol based flavorings in quick
breads, cookies, etc. Given that even if unbaked, there would
typically be less than one sixteenth of a teaspoon of alcohol per
serving, I am going to use them.
On the other hand, the so-called alcohol free beers are only
*legally* alcohol free in some (all?) cases. I know a Baha'i who
was freely imbibing them one evening until he realized he was getting
a bit high. Checking the label, he found that they contained 1/2
of 1 per cent alcohol, which in his state made them legally alcohol
free. A half dozen of them is like having a can of regular
(U.S.) beer.
Don C
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