SC - beef vs veal in recipes

[Philip & Susan Troy]

What I have read, and i can't even tell you the sources right now, is that the
upper classes did eat veal, almost to the exclusion of beef.  Beef was usually
eaten only when it was too old to serve the purpose of either providing milk or
standing stud, and was therefore tough and stringy.  It was then eaten mostly by
the lower classes.

Kiri

Serian wrote:

> Greetings,
> An interesting discussion came up recently, and I wanted to
> run it past you all and find out your opinion/knowledge on
> the subject.
>
> the topic of veal in Medieval recipes came up.  One part of
> the discussion was that beef might reasonably be used in
> place of veal since in Period it would have been more common
> and reasonable to kill the calf than the full grown cow.  A
> counter to that is that in the same cookery book there are
> recipes for both beef and veal.
>
> What do you think?
> Serian
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