SC - Pigs revisited-long

[Stefan li Rous]

Ras states:

> Couple this with  the small number of period recipes using pork as opposed to
> bacon, there can be no other conclusion than one which views period pigs as a
> major source of bacon/lard rather than meat, IMO.

What are you basing this conclusion of a "small number of period recipes using
pork" on? I thought someone here had given numbers that showed pork to be the
most common meat used?

Waverly Root in "Food" says that the pig was common because almost all of it
was useful. He doesn't specify a time period for this particular statement,
though. He does say that in medieval times, the pig was the most common meat
among the peasants when they could get meat and that most of it was salt pork.
He says the gentry preferred game.

He does say on the amount of pork eaten:
"Thus in 1345, when Humbert, crown prince of the Viennois, led a Crusade (which
subsequently failed), he established the regulations for his wife's household
in his absence. It was to be limited to thirty persons, and the rations he
considered adequate for this number included one freshly killed pig each week,
plus thirty salted pigs a year, nearly three pigs per person per year."

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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