SC - Re: Egg Sizes

[LrdRas at aol.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."
 
 Alys Katharine >>

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.

However, I am personally leery of using a 17th century painting to define egg 
sizes in previous centuries as much as I would be leery of defining 17th 
century egg sizes by viewing pictures of 20th century eggs.........

Ras
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