SC - Trouting

[LYN M PARKINSON]

>" Sister Mary Endoline said something like:
>BTW - the hot and heavily spiced flavorings were used to cover and kill  the
>taste of rancid or spoiled meats in the days, pre-refrigeration."
>" I have never seen anything to prove that people at 'bad' meat before
>refrigeration."
>
>Yes, I did say something like that... - That was based on life experience in
>the West Indies rather than "Middle Ages documentation"  Jerked meat is not a
>Middle Ages method but rather a West Indian - mainly Jamaican method of
>flavoring food initially used to cover the taste of less than flavorfull meat.
>Having grown up as a charter boat child throughout the WI in the 60's and
>70's, I know from personal experience that the days pre-refrigeration in some
>West Indian communities are not that long in the distant past and meats are
>often heavily seasoned to "improve their flavor" because they don't taste
>particularly palatible plain.

So does this mean the meat was actually rancid or was this just seasoning
for a lesser cut of meat?

Micaylah
Who has a another question for you...do you like Goat Roti?


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