SC - An example of what Most people think was eaten in Period

Elaine Koogler ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Mon Nov 27 08:31:10 PST 2000


Jadwiga wrote:

> Looking at claims made on this list, plus mentions of cattle drives, one
> suspects that if beef cattle were eaten as 'veal' up to the age of two
> years, we may be working at cross-purposes: period people may well hafve
> been eating what we think of as beef but calling it veal.

That's possible.  I know I did run into information that indicated that the nobility
ate veal rather than beef...and the sauce I used with the roast beef I did worked
very well.

Kiri


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