SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2094

[Sue Clemenger]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but just because they were cows, doesn't mean
they were dairy cows--perhaps used primarily for meat? I have no idea...
Maire

Linda Peterson wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 ChannonM at aol.com wrote:
> > The compost recipe was adapted to Ireland by using mead and cider vinegar
> > instead of wine and wine vinegar. As for the Frumenty, I used wheat berries
> > and barley, no milk but butter and flavoured it with onions and homemade
> > vegetable broth. After some recent posts about substituting oil and water, I
> > might reconsider using that in the future.
> > Hauviette
>
> Why no milk? Not complaining, mind you, just curious. My impression had
> been the early Celts were big on cattle.
>
> Mirhaxa
>   mirhaxa at morktorn.com
>
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