SC - Turkey Day post-mortem

[Laura C. Minnick]

Yes, Thoman selon my dictionaries and the use of the word as I know it,
tripes is a generic term for intestines.
Ana


Thomas Gloning skrev:
> 
> Ana wrote:
> <<< Both pig trotters and tripe are really widespread in the kitchens of
> Italy, Spain, France and Germany during the Middle Age. -- In France, in
> Paris, in the wellknown restaurant "Au pied du cochon", serves pig
> trotters in different ways. They claim their recipes are from 1300.
> (...) -- I am sure Thomas have a lot of tripe and pig trotters recipes
> from the south of Germany. >>>
> 
> There is one recipe for pig trotters in the porc-section of the
> 'Enseignements' (around 1300):
> "Les quatre piez e les orilles e le groing en souz de parresil e
> d'espices, destrempé de vin aigre." (ed. Lozinski 1933, page 181 line
> 22-23).
> Could be something like: 'The four pig trotters, the ears and the mouth,
> over it parsley and spices tempered [moderated] with vinegar'.
> 
> Well, I do not really have "a lot" of tripe and pig trotters recipes,
> but there are some, e.g. in Doris Aichholzer's new edition of three
> southern German recipe collections (15th century). -- There are much
> more recipes for other kinds of intestines (or is "tripe" a general term
> for 'intestines'?).
> 
> The 'Menagier' mentions "tripes" several times, together with the
> "tripperie" (the shops of tripes or more general of intestines) and the
> "tripier", the merchand of tripes (you can search for these expressions
> in the electronic Menagier, that Cindy Renfrow put on the web.)
> 
> The 15th century cookbook/dietetic of Meister Eberhard says about pig
> trotters: "Vnd das pest an dem swein das sein die fuß, das maul, die
> oren vnd der zagel" ('and the best of the pig are the trotters, the
> mouth, the ears and its tail'; this is the text I put on the web
> recently).
> 
> It seems to me that these dishes were eaten, but not very often
> documented in cookbooks. They are also mentioned in other sources, e.g.
> in a German chronicle (16th century), where two of the guests were
> throwing tripes after each other. Thus it seems, that eating tripe is
> not worth mentioning, but throwing tripes clearly is.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
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