SC - OP recipe request

[Diana L Skaggs]

And it came to pass on 9 Oct 00, , that Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> I was just glancing through the Austin edition of Two Fifteenth-Century
> Cookery-Books, the section devoted to Ms. Harl. 279, and spotted the
> following that made me think of your questions on Moray eels and tail bones:
> 
> ".xliii. Mortrewes of Fysshe. -- Take Gornard or Congere, a-fore (th)e
> navel wyth (th)e grece, for be-hynde (th)e navel he is hery of bonys, or

Interesting!  Thank you.

> "When your Mortrewes is stale,
> All those bones in the tail,
> That's etc..."  

Spider Robinson beat you to it:
"When-a you swim inna da sea, an' a eel bites-a you knee, dat's a  
moray-"


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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