From the sources
Bereishit 18:7-8 describes how Avraham takes a calf and milk and serves it to the angels. It is unclear from the posukim whether Avraham served the meat first, or the milk first, and many explanations are given as to how/why this happened. But the Malbim (1809-1879), says something very interesting. Bereishit 18:8 says that Avraham took the calf “which he had made”. The Malbim says that this means that Avraham took the Sefer HaYezirah and found out how to CREATE the calves. Because they were created beings, they did not have the din of basar, they were not halachically regarded as meat. It was therefore not a problem to serve them with milk and cream.
How to eat it
So it seems from the Malbim that Avraham made the first ever pareve meat. Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat is an article about how people are trying to grow meat without an actual animal, in a dish in a laboratory.
We don’t normally pasken from the Malbim (!?!), and I am obviously no Rabbi, but I wonder if they ever start grown meat without an animal, whether, based on this sort of idea, it would be considered pareve?
As “grown meat” is not available yet, I think the best way to “eat the Malbim’s opinion” is to serve tofu. You could serve cream and milk together with tofu or textured vegetable protein. As this does sound like a bit of a crazy idea, I Googled a recipe:
- Firm Tofu
- 150g button mushrooms
- Butter or margarine
- 3 Tsp cream
- Pepper and spices to taste
- Fry thin slices of tofu in olive or nut oil
- Serve with a sauce made by frying the mushrooms in a small amount of butter until tender then adding cream and spices and simmering lightly for 2-3 minutes.
Serve with mustard, just as Avraham did.
Again I would add that a lot of people don’t like tofu, so it would be a good idea to have other food available as well.
