SC - Polish

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Kay Loidolt wrote:
> 
> Johann von Metten writes:
>  Here is another medieval chicken for you!! This one comes from SE
> Europe, with older origins even further East!!
>  Pliny's 'Honest Indulgence' speaks of preparing a hen of Padua,or a
> Paduan Hen. It appears as though this is it!! Of course, he could be
> talking about a recipe, but then he says that it might be prepared
> several ways....?
> 
> http://www.cyborganic.net/People/feathersite/Poultry/CGP/Polish/BRKPolish.html

In Platina's De Honesta Voluptate, Book V, chapter 10, he says:

"The hen is useful to people for the egg, the pullet, the capon, and the
rooster, whether it is large, like those from Padua, or of a species of
dwarfs." [Millham translation]

He then goes on to speak of various types, and of chickens in general. I
believe that's the only reference to hens from Padua, though.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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