SC - Apicius and Fried Chicken

[Stefan li Rous]

Balldrich asked:

        This may sound a bit strange but I was offered a medium sized ostrich the
other night, REALLY!  Any ideas/methods to try to cook about 75-90 pounds
of bird in one sitting.  Most methods of preparation I see mean tearing the
bird into pieces.  I was hoping to find a method of cooking it in one
piece!  Anyone got any ideas?  I believe it will be frozen when I get it
and my freezer is not that big!  Workable plans for a building a one time
use bee hive oven, anyone?
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I'm not sure if this solves your problem, but surprisingly this message from my
exotic-meats-msg file also concerns Apicius.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net       

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From: "Philip W. Troy" <troy at asan.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:33:06 -0400
Subject: Re: SC - Ostrich

Uduido at aol.com wrote:

> Ostrich is farm-raised. It has the texture and flavor of beef and is cooked
> in the same way as beef. It is NOT a game animal and bears no resemblance to
> game, taste or otherwise. I have not come across any period recipes using
> this wonderful new addition to the butcher's case. (Yet! :-))
> 
> Lord Ras

I think Apicius has a sauce for boiled ostrich, if I'm not mistaken. You
could argue that the time of authorship isn't in period (although the
SCA really has no early cut-off, apparently) but the recipes were
apparently used well into period.

Adamantius, barely period himself
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