SC - Practical Anthropology: Reducing Bones

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/27/00 8:17:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
caitlin_ennis at hotmail.com writes:

> Does anyone have suggestions? Was period vinegar stonger? I have made 
>  vinegar of varying strengths during my brewing and cooking experiments and 
>  found that today's store bought vinegar is stonger in acetic acid than 
>  anything I could produce myself.
>  
While I have no documented proof, I would think that either the vinegar was 
much stronger, or the bird was very, very young, and the bones had not 
completely hardened yet.  I'll see what I can come up with.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.