Salmon and butter

Kashrus

Question

Can you bake salmon with butter??

Answer

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It is customary in many Sephardic and Chassidic communities not to eat fish and milk together (e.g., lox and cream cheese). This is because it was once believed that eating fish and milk together was dangerous to one’s health. This custom, however, is only a stringency and it is permitted to mix fish and milk. It is also permitted to fry or bake fish in butter. Some suggest that the fish-and-milk stringencies actually originated as the result of a printer’s error.

Beit Yosef, YD 87:3; OC 87; Shach, YD 87:5; Pitchei Teshuva, YD 87:9; Aruch Hashulchan, YD 87:15

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