SC - Recipe challenge

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Sue Wensel wrote:
> 
> Anne Marie wrote:
> 
> >Livestock, according ot Holmes, were driven into town and then butchered
> >as needed by professional guilded butchers. I guess this means that some
> >city slicker could go through life without ever killing a chicken of
> >their own, but most people in the middle ages were not city slickers, and
> >so most would have been responsible for the butchering of their own
> >livestock.
> 
> I am afraid I can not agree with this premise.  To take this further, we must
> then assume that because farmers grew wheat, they all did their own milling,
> when we know this not to be true.  Undoubtedly, some farmers grew their own
> livestock and butchered it and some grew their own grain and milled it.
> However, I also think it likely that some took livestock to butchers to be
> killed and/or cut up.

So, after what seems like weeks of debate, we have evidently concluded
that some people in medieval Europe knew how to butcher larger animals,
and some didn't. I can live with that.

Adamantius