SC - fetal???

[Cindy Renfrow]

Just an aside to this thread --  "The Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus, 14th
c.(lots of pictures, little text) says that rabbits were hunted using nets
& snares, and spaniels, ferrets, or smoke to chase them into said traps.
If ferrets were used, they were muzzled to keep them from eating the
rabbits in their burrows.  The rabbits were stewed, according to Phoebus.
Now, under this system of harvesting the bunnies, there must have been
quite a few pregnant does caught.  He makes no mention of the fetuses, so
I'm assuming they were either put in the stew pot or given to the spaniels
& ferrets.

BTW, in the pseudo-science of humours, would not fetal rabbits, if eaten
separately, have been considered cold & moist, & therefore unsuitable for
all but strong hardworking people?

I think if you want to find recipes for fetal rabbits you'll need to look
in early sources like Apicius & Pliny & Athenaeus, where there are
descriptions of things like suckling kid slaughtered with a belly full of
milk...

I looked in Le Menagier & didn't find anything.

Cindy/Sincgiefu


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