Venison - was Re: SC - Boar Recipe

[Philip & Susan Troy]

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/18/99 2:17:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
> 
> << Compared to the populations in Britain at the time (sorely depleted --
>  think of those faux venison pasty recipes), it was probably still fairly
>  impressive.
> 
>  Adamantius >>
> 
> Agreed. I am sure that there were more deer available for food here than in
> Europe at the time. Also they were able to be hunted by anyone not just
> nobility. An added plus for the colonists.

This is kinda the idea I was after. "Venison" may have been a term
applied by the nobs to the game they hunted (note that it comes into
English from French), while the little animals hunted by the lower
classes, when they hunted or trapped at all, tended to be birds,
rabbits, etc. You know -- game, not venison.

The main problem with this as a working model (that I can see) is that
it doesn't account for things like foxes. Or is fox-hunting a strictly
post-perod activity?

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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