SC - once again bread & FISH

[Stefan li Rous]

Brighid commented:
> The "Arte Cisoria", a Spanish carving manual written in 1423,
> mentions hedgehogs in its list of edible animals, but does not
> describe how they were cooked.

This was also mentioned by Rakhel Petrovna in a message that is now in
the exotic-meats-msg file in my Florilegium. She also mentions English 
peasants doing this. But doesn't give a recipe other than to say they 
were cooked (baked?) in mud, which allows easy removal of the quills 
when the mud is removed.

The following is a snippet from another message in that same file that
was posted to this list a few months ago:

> Platina includes omentum,  maidenhair fern, heads
> and giblets of capons and chickens, tounge, chicken and other animals
> testicles testicles, porcupines and hedgehogs, brains and heads of all
> species, eyes, hearts and lungs, liver, udders, spleens, kidneys, stomach,
> fish eggs, several for hemp (cannabis), turtles, murex, and eels including
> moray and conger.
> 
> Phlip

Unfortunately, I do not yet have any period recipes for cooking hedgehogs.

Stefan

PS: Apparently the root of my mundane name 'Harris' comes from 'haries'
or hedgehog. Gee, what you can learn doing research for SCA heraldry...
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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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