SC - medieval bacon

[Stefan li Rous]

Elizabeth/Betty Cook comments:

>Menagier writes: "GRASPOIS. This is salted whale, and should be sliced raw
>and cooked in water like bacon; and serve with peas", and he has a pea
>recipe which uses bacon for meat days and this salted whale on fish days.

..."cooked in water like bacon"? When I think of bacon, I think of frying it,
not boiling it. Is it common to do other than fry it today? Perhaps the
definition of bacon has changed. I do know of the bacon, that at least the
Americans call "Canadian bacon" but I would consider that a ham. I'm not
enough up on pig anatomy to define what I am thinking of as bacon.

What was the medieval definition of bacon? And how was if usually cooked?

Thanks.
  Stefan li Rous
  stefan at texas.net
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