[Sca-cooks] Irish beef

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Cattle were also much to valuable in period to use a a meat source, one of
> the primary components of the irish diet was cheese. A lot of cheese making
> art was lost because of the English occupation of Ireland during Elizabeth's
> reign. They did not slaughter a cow until it's milk producing days were done.
> Otherwise it was the equivalent of taking a stack of money and setting a
> match to it. Your wealth was your cattle.

What about mutton and sheep's-milk, were they used by the Irish?

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