SC - Bacon

[Cindy Renfrow]

>                      RE>SC - Bacon                                2/18/98
>
><snip> Often times the only meat available and affordable
>to the poor was salted whale.
>Ras.
>=
>Okay, I am going to do something that I really hate when it happens to me...
>but can you document that Ras?  I have seen some references to dolphin and
>porpoise being used in period, but not whale- and it was my understanding that
>out of period whale use did not include meat- fat, bone, baleen- but any
>"edible" parts were waste...
>-brid
>


Ooh, ooh, I know!

"And if on a fish day or in Lent there be whale-flesh (craspois), you ought
to use it as you use bacon on a meat day."   Power, The Goodman of Paris
(Le Menagier de Paris), p. 252.

Cindy/Sincgiefu


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