SC - Modern sanitary concerns... bah ;)

[Gedney, Jeff]

I remember that conversation...
Several people had various ideas, such as using a barrier, like foil or
saranwrap, to keep the buggies out...
Chief objection to this was that the barriers are not very hermetic, and
juices can flow both ways through the layers, unless you are VERY CAREFUL in
the wrapping.
On lady I know sewed the plucked plumage onto a piece of quilting (keeps the
bird warm, as well!!!) and pasted the neck feathers onto a stuffed neck
shaped protrusion attached to the quilting...
I thought that it might be a good idea to get two peacocks, and cook one,
and hand the other to a taxidermist to be tanned with the feathers in place,
(you probably cant keep the meat from small game that you give to a
taxidermist, Unless you strip the carcass yourself first, and hand it over
quickly), and the head and neck stuffed with padding and an armature.
Then you put a little saran wrap over the bird and lay the skin back on the
bird. 
This allows the skin to be kept indefinitely for "repeat performances". 

Brandu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tara Sersen [SMTP:tsersen at browser.net]
> Sent:	Friday, October 23, 1998 12:36 PM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	SC - Modern sanitary concerns... bah ;)
> 
> I have a question for ya'll.  I am working on a bid for the feast for
> next summer's Landsknecht Musterung.  I wanted to do some showy dish. 
> I've run across mention of peacocks redressed in their skins a couple of
> times, and I think I saw mention of the same for pheasants and swans
> elsewhere.  I would love to try something like this, but it brings up
> the problem of, well, not poisoning everyone in the hall.  (Well, there
> are a few... oh, never mind ;)  Has anyone tried this?  Does anyone know
> how to treat the skins to get rid of the creepy-crawlies both on the
> inside and the outside?
> 
> I discussed it with a friend.  Liberal application of salt is the
> obvious choice for the microscopic buggers on the inside, but cleaning
> the outside without either destroying the feathers or making them fall
> out seems a bit more difficult.  Both steaming and boiling would
> logically destroy the feathers or make them fall out.  Bleaching seems
> like an option, since chlorine evaporates very quickly and thus wouldn't
> be a poison danger, but I think that would ruin the feathers too.  Any
> other ideas?
> 
> Thank you :)
> Magdalena vander Brugghe
> -- 
> Tara
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