SC - Re: Egg Sizes

[alysk at ix.netcom.com]

In a message dated 12/14/99 4:17:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
alysk at ix.netcom.com writes:

<< Again, it looks more like a "large."
 
And Ras responded:

>Probably. They were perhaps goose eggs or duck eggs? Geese are allegorical so 
>goose eggs would be my guess. Oftentimes, we forget that in our 
>agriculturally deprived society chicken eggs are what is available to us for 
>cooking in general while until the very recent past goose, duck and chicken 
>eggs would have all been used more or less equally in frequency of use.

Well, I will toss the question back.  The paintings were by Velazquez which would
be Spain.  What fowl was most common?  Chickens?  Ducks?  Geese?

Alys K.

                                  
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