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126 THE ROYAL TABLE
which to cook, it is permissible to eat of that cooking. 10
According to this decision it would seem that in our day
of gas ranges with pilot lighters it is enough for the Jewish
housewife to light the pilot and let her non-Jewish help do
the rest. Fish salted or smoked by gentiles may be eaten;
but eggs, even though it is possible to eat them uncooked,
should not be eaten when boiled by them. 11 When a gen-
tile uses a Jewish pot for cooking, that vessel becomes unfit
for use until purified in the manner described in Chapter
XII. 12
Under ordinary circumstances milk sold by non-Jews
should not be used, as they are apt to add the milk of
unclean animals to that of the clean ones. 13
If the milking
was supervised by a Jew, or if he were in a position to see
the milking, though he did not watch it very attentively,
the milk is permitted, for the gentile would not dare mix
unclean milk with the clean in his presence. 14 A gentile
servant may be employed to milk Jewish cattle, for when
there is no profit motive one need not suspect the milk to
be mixed with inferior unclean milk. 16 In this country we
use non- Jewish milk, relying on the rarity of the use of
milk of unclean animals by non- Jews; and furthermore,
governmental inspection makes the possibility of adultera-
tion extremely remote.
Cheese manufactured by non-Jews should not be eaten,
because the milk is coagulated by the use of a calf's stom-
ach which is rich in rennet, and the calf used is of course
a trejak one. 16 In order to avoid confusion, the sages have
M Ibid.
" Y. D. ibid. 13, 14.
M Ibid. 15
* Avodah Zarah 55a; Y. D 115, 1.
14 Y D. Ibid.
M Ibid Ramah.
M Avodah Zarah 29a; Y. D. 115, 2.