SC - Pig slaughtering-OOP

[Liam Fisher]

Adamantius sez:

> Hmmm. It's a tough call. My own experience has been that people will eat
> foods that _contain_ meat or fish-flavored gelatin, if they can convince
> themselves that the dish itself does not actually _consist_ of meat or
> fish gelatin. So, the jelly-glazed brawn with mustard is okay, but a
> tournesole blue jelly quivering up at you on the plate tends, around
> here, to get something of a lukewarm reception. On the other hand,
> gelatin being basically pure protein, it can be pretty rich when
> concentrated enough to be firm; even for people who like the stuff, how
> much can you eat? I don't think it's necessarily a comment on either the
> quality of the dish or the sophistication (or lack thereof) of the
> diners' tastes. It's just that a little goes a long way.

Yeah, it's not something normally served and it falls into the "strange
food"
category, so most people will just taste, not eat it.
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And Adamantius sez some more:

> You  might try it as an integral part of another dish, like, say, the
> jellied brawn mentioned above. In late period this would have been made
> from a boned-out whole small pig. For SCA feast purposes, this would be
> something like a boneless piece of fresh ham with some skin on it,
> brined, rinsed and boiled like corned spareribs, then pressed into a
> mold, skin side down, and covered with the reduced cooking stock. You
> can then chill it all, and you have the option of removing it from the
> mold and coating it with more gelatin layers. It is served cold, in
> slices. Then you can tease the diners and suggest that if they don't
> want to eat it, it's probably that they're too wimpy to try the mustard
> you made for it.

I was reading through the jelled foods from platina, and I like the looks of
the fish gelatin that used the whole pike to make the gelatin.  Pike's not a
bad fish and it's not a strange tasting fish, I might try that myself, but
it's
not feast food in my book because it'll almost all come back, but it IS
water soluble, but why waste the pike?

Cadoc
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