SC - meat days and fast days - MIXED?

[Stefan li Rous]

Cariadoc said:

> To put it mildly, yes. The book is webbed at:
> 
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/du_fait_de_c_con
> tents.html
> 
> "And as at such a feast there could be some very high, puissant, noble,
> venerable and honorable lords and ladies who do not eat meat, for these
> there must be fish, marine and fresh-water, fresh and salt, in such manner
> as one can get them.
> 
> And as the sea-bream is king of the other sea fish, listed first is the
> sea-bream, conger-eel, grey mullet, hake, sole, red mullet, dorade, plaice,
> turbot, sea-crayfish...

> Concerning fresh-water fish: big trout, big eels, lampreys, filleted char,
> fillets of big pike, fillets of big carp, big perch, ferrés, pallés,
> graylings, burbot, crayfish, and all other fish."

Would this "sea-crayfish" be what we know as lobster?

Thanks.
  Stefan li Rous
  stefan at texas.net
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