SC - Re: Egg Sizes
alysk at ix.netcom.com
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Wed Dec 15 13:58:19 PST 1999
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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