SC - Swans

[Cindy Renfrow]

>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
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>
>Laird Alasdair mac Iain of Elderslie
>Dun an Leomhain Bhig
>Canton of Dragon's Aerie, Barony Beyond the Mountain
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>Argent, a chevron cotised azure surmounted by a sword and in chief two
>mullets sable

Harleian 4016 (c. 1450) has 2 recipes for swan.  One is simply a whole swan
roasted, the other is a dish of entrails. There is also an allusion to
pudding of swan's neck in the feast menus.

Cindy/Sincgiefu


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