SC - cheese questions

[Decker, Terry D.]

Alfalfa is an Asiatic pulse (Medicago sativa), possibly native to Persia.
The name is Spanish, derived from the Arabic, al-fasfasah, which suggests
that it was brought into Europe by the Moors.

Bear

> My guess is, depending on your part of medieval Europe, in contrast to
> the U.S., not only would the cow breeds be vastly different, 
> but we may
> feed them different cereal grains, different types of hay/straw (don't
> know, for instance, if alfalfa's period), different food supplements,
> etc.  Purely speculation, of course, as I am in no way an animal
> husbandrywoman (unless you count housecats).
> --Maire
>