SC - Per head budgets

[Marcus Antaya]

Someone asked about a use for a pig's tail.

I have pasted a message from my exotic-foods-msg file below. Deep in
the middle of the last paragraph you can find a mention that Apicius
refers to "sow's womb, tails and feet". Perhaps if you search through
some of the Apicius books you can find more details.
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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:16:33 -0400
> From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip at bright.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - Thoughts on Food- reply, long.
> 
> Lady Elisabeth asked :
> >I especially would like to hear of some of the more unique recipes that
> everyone has found, especially period ones, containing unique
> ingrediants or animals.  I would also like to hear if you have cooked
> said recipe, or said unique animal, and your comments.<
> 
> We've also discussed long pig, and I'll refer to a passage from a book I
> just read, "Aztec Autumn", where in the hero is talking to a friend who is
> telling him about the animals the Spaniards brought to the New World,
> including "porcus", which tastes just like the thigh meat of a healthy
> young man.
> 
> As far as period oddities, Anthimus refers to organ meats such as kidneys,
> stomach (tripe), matrix (sow belly), udder, liver, and many birds and
> fishes, including lamphreys. Apicius refers to rose and violet wine, brain
> sausages among many others, intestinal fat and intestines as casings,
> nettles, smelt pie or sprat custard, ostrich, grane, thrush, figpeckers,
> pheasant, and many other birds, sow's womb, tails and feet, lungs,chamois,
> gazelle, wild sheep and dormouse, rays, squid, octopus and sea urchins, and
> eels, including conger. Platina includes omentum,  maidenhair fern, heads
> and giblets of capons and chickens, tounge, chicken and other animals
> testicles testicles, porcupines and hedgehogs, brains and heads of all
> species, eyes, hearts and lungs, liver, udders, spleens, kidneys, stomach,
> fish eggs, several for hemp (cannabis), turtles, murex, and eels including
> moray and conger.
> 
> Phlip