SC - Coneys

[david friedman]

Helen asked:
><< coneys and
> young rabbits?  I thought a coney was a rabbit. >>
>
and Ras responded:
>IIRC, coneys are rabbits under 6 months old, young rabbits are 6 months to a
>year old, and rabbits are over a year old.  Unfortunately the bits I have
>about rabbits are buried in a box of 400 plus unlabeled discs that I am just
>now beginning to catalog and arrange. :-( If anyone can confirm or correct
>this info, it would be appreciated.
>
Unfortunately, you got it backward.  According to C. Anne Wilson in _Food
and Drink in Britain_, "until well into the seventeenth century" rabbit
meant the baby animal, under a year old, and coney was the general term for
the beast.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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