SC - Scottish oatcakes

[Olwen the Odd]

In a message dated 10/26/00 12:38:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
jenne at mail.browser.net writes:


> Foods that don't fall in the usual discussion are kid, goat, mutton,
> coney, hare, and the wide variety of small birds. My feeling is that Le
> Menagier at least liked Lagomorph meat as much as he liked poultry... In
> England, peasants were forbideen to trap rabbits at one time, becuase they
> were an imported animal, kept in special warrens by coneyers who worked
> for landowners!
> 
> 

I would have to get with my Baron, that taught the class I'm about to cite, 
to find out his documentation, but I agree with this. As well as the comment 
about the uppers not sticking strictly to chicken. The class, at Colligium, 
covered "The Renn Kitchen". One of the things I wrote down was how Dove is 
considered a "common" food today, but in period "Dove Cloisters" were created 
in the castles of uppers to encourage doves to roost. Young boys would climb 
to the top of the cloisters, shoo out the birds, and then net them for use in 
dinners. Heck of a lot of effort if the Masters of the castle didn't **eat** 
them or considered them **below station**.

Lars