SC - period bear meat recipes
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Tue Apr 17 23:13:36 PDT 2001
> > > Although that doesn't give us anything about how a bear would taste
> >
> >Stringy, greasy, and somewhat sweet for some reason.
> >
> >Constance
>
> IIRC, Enrique de Villena (mid 1400s) discusses the consumption of bear in
> northern Spain. He says that only peasants and laborers eat it.
>
> Also IIRC, bears and pigs are somewhat related taxonomically, which might
> explain the sweetish taste of the flesh. Or it could just be the diet of
> the individual bear.
>
> Vicente
There are several period recipes for bear meat and several referances
to period bear meat recipes in this file in the FOOD section of the
Florilegium:
exotic-meats-msg (70K) 4/ 6/01 Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans,
ostrich,
crawfish, dormice, cat.
BTW - This is my "catch-all" file for period meat recipes that don't have
another file to go into, so it is often worth checking for meats that
don't have their own file.
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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