SC - Swans
The Cheshire Cat
sianan at geocities.com
Sun Sep 13 17:18:41 PDT 1998
>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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