SC - rasher of bacon??

[Stefan li Rous]

>Whilst standing watch on the pier yesterday, I was watching the swans
>swimming around the boats.  Not that I'd be willing to eat these particular
>birds (not after all the time they've been swimming around RCs!), but does
>anyone have any period recipes for swan?  Has anyone (Ras?) actually cooked
>or eaten swan?
>
>
>Alasdair mac Iain

Here I go on the swan subject again.......*Sigh*

At coronet in 1996, when Ynys Fawr hosted the event, we served swan to the
high table.  We just roasted it.  I wasn't in the kitchen for that evening,
so I don't know much about how they prepared it other than what the
finished product was like.  IIRC the meat had a silvery sort of sheen and
was not very tasty.  Besides, the paperwork involved in getting permission
to kill a couple was long and tiresome, despite the fact that we have them
in plague proportions here in the South of Tasmania.
   I was a good experiment, but not one that we would care to repeat in a
hurry.  IMO Swans are certainly not worth the effort involved in the legal
work.  Stick with other game birds instead.

Just my 2c worth,
- -Sianan

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Marina Denton
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        Logic is a systematic way of arriving at the wrong conclusion in
	confidence.
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