The Feast of the Ass (Latin: Festum Asinorum or asinaria festa, French: Fête de l’âne) was a medieval, Christian feast observed on January 14, celebrating the Flight into Egypt. It was celebrated primarily in France, as a by-product of the Feast of Fools celebrating the donkey-related stories in the Bible, in particular the donkey bearing the Holy Family into Egypt after Jesus’s birth.

Plain, flavored or nutritionally fortified donkey milk powders and an integrated method for the production there of

Publication number EP2617290 A1
Publication type Application
Application number EP20130386002
Publication date 24 Jul 2013
Filing date 16 Jan 2013
Priority date 19 Jan 2012
Inventors Konstantinos Petrotos, Angela Gabriela D’Alessandro, Giovanni Martemucci
Applicant Konstantinos Petrotos, Angela Gabriela D’Alessandro, Giovanni Martemucci

ABSTRACT
In this invention it is claimed a novel and economic combination of known processes allowing for the production of finished products which have got as a major constituent donkey’s milk powder. This way three respective products a) plain powder; b) flavored powder; c) nutritionally fortified powder with improved caloric value, aiming at serving specific nutritional needs of certain population target groups, such as adults with specific diet requirements, elderly people and infants, respectively.
A novel and economic combination of: 1) ceramic tubular microfiltration through membranes with pores sizes 0.7 µm-1.4 µm to sanitize the milk 2) reverse osmosis or nanofiltration to concentrate the sanitized milk at low temperature 3) optional addition of aroma and/or high quality extra virgin olive oil by encapsulation in milk proteins and 4) as a final step freeze drying, of the plain or nutritional fortified and/or flavored concentrated milk in order to produce microbiologically stable dry powder products.