SC - Language (was: .food riddle and query)

[Bernadette Crumb]

In a message dated 12/13/99 6:59:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
parlei at algonet.se writes:

<< but he did find a note that bones from
 chickens from when they first entered Sweden (a couple of centuries BC)
 indicated that they were slightly smaller than moderns dwarf (bantam?)
 chickens. 
 
 /UlfR >>

Interesting. Is there any indication that chickens remained that small for 
the next 1,200 to 1,300 years which would then bring this size chicken within 
the realms of documented period cookery? Given the obvious advances in 
breeding within other types of crops and farm animals during the same period, 
I find this highly unlikely, personally. Also was there any indication of the 
age of the chickens that the bones came from?

Ras

Ras
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